Dreamers Rise

I first studied Spanish in junior high school. There were, as I remember, four languages you could select: French, Spanish, German, and Lati...

From The New Yorker: Oswaldo Vidal Martín always wears the same thing to court: a striped overshirt, its wide collar and cuffs woven with ...

A case of a ghastly linguistic muddle involving, in one sentence, no fewer than five languages: Euclides da Cunha, who was a fanatical re...

The artist and printmaker Annie Bissett has discovered this wonderful bit of found poetry, which she has posted on her Tumblr blog . Adapte...

"It is very remarkable, that as we dream in words, and carry on imaginary conversations, in which we speak both for ourselves and for t...

According to historian Bruce Watson, when William Wood's massive textile mill on the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts was comp...

This fold-out map (it's one of three in the book) is from Russian and the Slavonic Languages by W. J. Entwistle and W. A. Morison, a vo...

This series was published by Faber & Faber beginning in the 1930s, under the general editorship of L. R. Palmer. At least some of the v...