You Must Change Your Writing Style: Ward Farnsworth’s Guidebooks to English Virtuosity and Ancient Philosophy
Our culture is preoccupied with content to the almost total exclusion of form, and that’s bad....
Our culture is preoccupied with content to the almost total exclusion of form, and that’s bad....
An American author’s memoir of his six decades in Japan and his love affair with Tokyo....
A review of the literature on the hyperliterate jazz-rock ironists from 1970s L.A....
Colin Marshall explores the allure of polyglotism and the perils of linguistic hegemony through “Lingo” and “Babel” by Gaston Dorren....
Celebrating four decades of the “London Review of Books.”...
A new book about why free speech matters, even when it hurts....
Colin Marshall examines English speakers’ relationship to the French language, which is the subject of a growing number of books....
Colin Marshall contemplates David Sedaris’s experiences with language-learning....
Colin Marshall looks at books by Minae Mizumura and Aamir R. Mufti that lament the rise of global English....
Colin Marshall listens closely to “Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa” by Haruki Murakami....
Colin Marshall looks back on Roland Barthes’s look at Japan in “Empire of Signs.”...
Colin Marshall takes the measure of “Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style” by W. David Marx....