Linguist, feminist activist and author of influential books on how language can shape gendered experiences

Check out Maybe Tomorrow I'll Know - <p>Laurie wakes up in a girl's body with no memories, driving down an unknown highway, and promptly crashes the car. Thankfully, a handsome stranger named Gideon c...

In Crewe’s story, dual adjectives can be arresting, witty. Also—only partly licensed by the Victorian tone—he brilliantly brings on the adverbs.

Michael Silverblatt, the dedicated host of KCRW’s Bookworm, died last Friday at 73. Bookworm ran from 1989-2022, and was nationally syndicated. Over his thirty years on the airwaves, Silverbl…

An amuse-bouche for discussion of Tom Crewe's "The Fête."

What determines which spatial axis people use to represent time? We investigate effects of writing direction. English, like Mandarin Chinese in mainland China, is written left to right and then top to...

A newsletter about language, politics and your brain. Gil Durán and Dr. George Lakoff

In a now infamous memo, strategist Frank Luntz advised Republicans to cast doubt on climate change by emphasizing emotions rather than facts.

HB 4130 is conservatives' latest attack on medical language and care

Some examples of ambiguity in Parker's prose, with a brief reflection on how ambiguity informed her writing.