Category: Review
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“Literature’s hand luggage”: wit and wisdom in James Geary’s “The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism”
A definitive—and delightful—handbook to the hard-to-define aphorism.
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“Paper Airplane” takes flight
This new, independent digital magazine offers up some sorely needed wonder and whimsy.
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“Woof woof” and “iam fari”: divinity, humanity, dogs, and etymology behind first words in Michael Erard’s “Bye Bye I Love You”
The etymology of the word “infant” left me ‘speechless,’ thanks to Michael Erard’s enlightening and poetic new book about our first and last words.
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The Jane Austen Game: A charming immersion into the great author’s literary world
Beautiful. Ingenious. Impressively conceived. The Jane Austen Game is a handsome homage to its brilliant inspiration.
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Book review: The Story of “Be” by David Crystal
’Tis the season for ’tis the season, that yuletide cliché stuffing headlines and ad copy like so many Christmas stockings. This season, though, I got to thinking about ’tis itself, that old-timey-sounding contraction of it is. In one of his latest books, The Story of Be: A Verb’s-Eye View of the English Language (Oxford University…
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