Forget Strunk and White’s rules—cognitive science is a surer basis for clear and cogent writing, according to this iconoclastic guide from bestselling Harvard psycholinguist Pinker (The Language ...

With all that in mind, try reading this: “Penelope Cholmondely raised her azure eyes from the crabbed scenario. She meandered among the congeries of her memoirs. There was the Kinetic Algernon, a ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Dictionary.com declaring “6-7,” "the classic brainrot slang” that’s "purposefully nonsensical” as ...

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With the extreme heat advisories and warnings throughout Arkansas this week, it should come as no surprise that my summer crankiness has cranked up a notch or three. There's the usual summer misery of ...

The author’s suite of essays, originally conceived for broadcast, don’t always translate well for the page Julian Barnes’s latest book comprises five micro-essays, originally commissioned for a radio ...

Alice Franklin's new novel is a story told by an often-lonely little girl in the south of England who doesn't seem to see the world or hear its sounds or speak and think in the way other children do.

IN the last two weeks, we have been talking about language standards, standard language and linguistic prescriptivism. Besides one's (English) language teacher and a language editor, an average person ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Summer Books 2024 draws together recommendations from FT writers and critics across a wide range of subjects — ...

This week I learned that pretty much everyone who’s ever opined about the word “peruse” was wrong, kind of. And the people who corrected the people who opined wrongly were also wrong, kind of. And ...

Venice will this week welcome thousands more visitors from across the world with the opening of its 60th Biennale, exhibiting the work of more than 330 participating artists from some 90 countries.