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Conjoined Terms

Conjoined Terms

Sometimes your lingo needs a little mojo

by Ralph Keyes | Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Pause Fillers

Pause Fillers

Um, like, y’know, sort of, if you catch my drift

by Ralph Keyes | Thursday, July 06, 2017
Superlatalk

Superlatalk

The history of the most awesome language ever

by Ralph Keyes | Wednesday, December 21, 2016
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Family Language

The words that make a house a home

by Ralph Keyes | Friday, July 22, 2016
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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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