#language

Because sometimes you accidentally stumble down the rabbit hole and start questioning the use of idioms in fantasy worlds.

"Children of immigrants, like Lahiri, experience shame for being other, their mother tongue ostracized rather than celebrated."

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense." Take this quiz to find out what weird word from the English language is your match.

WORD WEALTH: the high school textbook that changed my relationship to writing and reading.

Books for science fiction fans that just want to chat with a heptapod

One trans reader on picking up a book about trans lives and written by trans authors, but full of outdated language.

For a long time, I thought Americans put ice cream on bread, ate peanut butter mixed with a sweet gelatin dessert, and weirdly boiled bread. I was wrong.

Angel Cruz talks with David J. Peterson about constructed languages.

A discussion of why the word frenemies does more harm than good when it comes to female friendships.

Grammar lovers, check out these ampersand jewelry pieces, decor, and other fab bookish stuff! Time to get more ampersands in your life!

"Just happens to be gay" is outdated, dismissive, and it's just not working. Let's find new ways to talk about diverse characters in books.

The great risk of writing with similes, referencing Junot Diaz, David Sedaris

How often have you thought about some language phenomenon and wondered if there was a name for that? Is there ...

It didn’t take long for me to devour all of the episodes of Bob’s Burgers that I could when I watched ...

There’s been a lot of ink spilled on the Oxford comma, the comma that goes before “and” in a list of three or ...