Rio de Janeiro's Carnival is using samba parades to spotlight Black Brazilian women writers who rarely get public recognition.

To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature ...

This very special live recording of World Book Club in Paris features celebrated French novelist Laurent Binet in ...

The enigma of language is that we humans can master it without having any idea how it works. Everyone learns to speak. Everyone communicates with the people around them. Everyone has an internal ...

Sheena Shah and Matthias Brenzinger discuss their recording of Mathabang Hlaela speaking in the endangered language of siPhuthi with her as young girls watch, in the village of Ha Sekhobe in Daliwe ...

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

Amazon announced on Thursday the launch of Kindle Translate, an AI-powered translation service designed for authors using Kindle Direct Publishing to broaden their reach. The service initially ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

BEYOND LANGUAGE by Dmitri A. Borgmann. 338 pages. Scr/bner’s. $7.50. This is a book for the tired scientist, mathematician or logician. But the word games that Dmitri Borgmann has collected for his ...