language

Playing the Dozens: On the Joys and Functions of Sh*t Talk

Rafi Kohan Considers a Powerful Linguistic Ritual

 
By Rafi Kohan  January 29, 2024
Subcultures

Unlocking Reason: How the Deaf Created Their Own System of Communication

By Moshe Kasher  January 22, 2024
Language

(Don’t) Watch Your Tongue: Why Swearing Is Fun

By Rebecca Roache  November 27, 2023
Community

Whose Community Is It Anyway?

By Casey Plett  November 7, 2023
Languages

How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today

By Nick Romeo  November 2, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Tim O’Brien on Letting the World Decide What He’ll Read Next

By Literary Hub  October 30, 2023
Language

What is Left Unsaid: How Some Words Do—Or Don’t—Make It Into Print

By Sarah Ogilvie  October 23, 2023
Language

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
Experimental Fiction

Estranging English: Mandy-Suzanne Wong on Constructing New Literary Languages

By Mandy-Suzanne Wong  September 19, 2023
Indian Literature

A Distinct Medium: How English Became a South Asian Literary Language

By Liesl Schwabe  September 7, 2023
Etymologies

Month-Disease, Flewsa, Lunations: On the Etymology of Periods

By Jenni Nuttall  August 29, 2023
Climate Crisis

How the Bush Administration Hid the Dangers Posed by Climate Change

By David Lipsky  July 31, 2023
Queer Literature

A Queer Reimagining of James Joyce’s Ulysses in Northern England

By Helen Palmer  July 26, 2023
Language

Who. That. It. How We Speak About and For Animals

By Keggie Carew  July 19, 2023
Borders

Borders and Rivers: On Language, Faith, and Family at the US/Mexico Border

By Alejandra Oliva  June 22, 2023
Queerness

Manuel Betancourt on Navigating Queerness in English and Spanish

By Manuel Betancourt  June 12, 2023
Banned Books

On Shuttered Libraries, Censorship, the Threat of Book Bans

By Mark Dunn  May 4, 2023
In Conversation

Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

By Julia Kovalenko  March 22, 2023
Language

Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books

By Theo Downes-Le Guin  March 13, 2023
Keen On

Laline Paull: What Would Other Species Tell Us If They Could Talk?

By Keen On  February 17, 2023
The Craft of Writing

Susan Griffin on Following the Sounds of Words

By Susan Griffin  January 20, 2023
Language

Jonathan Lear on Learning from Linguistic Example on the Playground

By Jonathan Lear  December 23, 2022
On Poetry

Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

By Sumana Roy  December 21, 2022
Indigenous Voices

How Language Can Be Used to Destroy and Dominate, and How It Can Be Used to Remember and Reclaim

By Jake Skeets  December 5, 2022
Andrew Keen

How We Interpret and Translate the World is How We See the World

By Andrew Keen  November 8, 2022
Language

Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza  September 27, 2022
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