Language of literature
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‘What’s the story?’: Writer Sara Suleri’s student discovers his teacher afresh in her memoir
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How the English department of Aligarh Muslim University nurtured contemporary Urdu literature
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How the politics and language of ‘coming out’ in the LGBTQ community have evolved over the centuries
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From the East to the West, how much is lost (and found) in translation?
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A case for the apostrophe, the punctuation mark that is polarising the literary world
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Slaying the Snark: What Lewis Carroll’s nonsense verse tells us about reality
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Did Chinua Achebe’s groundbreaking ‘Things Fall Apart’ subvert colonial structures – or uphold them?
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How a linguistics teacher created an entire anarchist language inspired by Ursula K le Guin
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What does ‘Orwellian’ (also ‘Dickensian’ and ‘Kafkaesque’) mean, anyway?
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So you’re a reader, but do you know what these words really mean?
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Text. Texture. Textile. What words about writing really mean