Theme: Language and Writing
- Page ID
- 340
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- “Assassination and the American Language” by Elliot Ackerman
- “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” by James Baldwin
- “Why We Need to Stop Calling Powerful Women ‘Bitches’” by Jessica Bennett
- “Lost in Translation” by Lera Boroditsky
- “The Creepy Language Tricks Taco Bell Uses to Fool People Into Eating There” by Keira Butler
- “The Genius of Robert Walser” by J.M. Coetzee
- “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass
- “The Book Lady of Kabul” by J. Malcolm Garcia
- “On Not Writing” by Bill Hayes
- “When the King Saved God” by Christopher Hitchens
- “What’s Really Going on With the Word ‘Thug’ – and Why I’m Not Ready to Let it Go” by Maisha Z. Johnson
- “Words” by Tony Judt
- “The Day Language Came Into My Life” by Helen Keller
- “The Lost Art of the Unsent Angry Letter” by Maria Konnikova
- “Trading Stories: Notes from an Apprenticeship” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Talk the Talk” by Eric C. Miller
- “The Novel’s Evil Tongue” by Cynthia Ozick
- “Obscenity Rap” by Geoffrey Nunberg [note: explicit language]
- “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell
- “What the F***?: Why We Curse” by Steven Pinker [note: explicit language]
- “Fifty Years of Stupid Grammar Advice” by Geoffrey K. Pullum
- “Tangential Divagation: Notes of an Immigrant Daughter” by Melissa R. Sipin
- “Ain’t That the Truth: Webster’s Third, the Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language” by David Skinner
- “The Ways of Silencing” by Jason Stanley
- “Why I Blog” by Andrew Sullivan
- “Losing the Language of Silence” by Lou Ann Walker
- “Our Language Prejudices Don’t Make No Sense” by Raphael Zanuttini
- “Chunking” by Ben Zimmer