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Poem: [Dog Is a Way of Thinking]

Magdalena Zurawski’s intrepid use of caesura — a pause in a line of poetry — reinforces the theme of disciplined…

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How Can China’s People Demand Freedom if We Can’t Even Say It?

One morning last November, I woke up to a stirring sight: video clips of young protesters in several Chinese cities…

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What Language Do You Speak to Express Love?

Are you in an intercultural/multilingual relationship? We’d like to know which language you use to express affection toward your partner,…

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Rehman Rahi, 97, Eminent Kashmiri Poet Who Restored a Language, Dies

Kashmir’s unofficial poet laureate, he gave voice to the rich culture of a bitterly divided territory and helped give his…

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The Secret Lives of Words

Some time ago, I fell into conversation with a colleague about what we had been reading lately, and the person…

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Good Fantasy Writing Is Pure Magic

All too often clunky dialogue breaks the spell of CGI-heavy TV epics. To be reminded what language can do by…

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What a 1985 Novel Can Tell Us About Life in the 2020s: Almost Everything

Noah Baumbach’s funny and very stylish film adaptation of “White Noise” is a great invitation to return to the source…

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A Belarusian Writer Who Calls for Poems Made of Barbed Wire

In “Motherfield,” her first collection to appear in English, Julia Cimafiejeva grapples with questions of language, nationalism and oppression.

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Bending Gender’s Rules, in Life and in German Grammar

The victory of Kim de l’Horizon, a nonbinary writer, in a top literary prize stirred a debate about how the…

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