1. The voice not stilled

    Nicholas Delbanco joins a long line of literary “adepts” who once received instruction at a master’s feet.

  2. What lasts, what fades away

    With Harper Lee’s recent death, author Nicholas Delbanco ponders “the writer’s trade” in modern times.

  3. To be, or not to be

    Nicholas Delbanco explores the literary and linguistic through line connecting everything from Elizabethan sonnets to modern street slang.

  4. Who said that?

    Talk about irony: You coin a popular catchphrase and yet few know or care who wrote the words.

  5. Happily ever after?

    Nicholas Delbanco strolls down Lovers’ Lane (in the literary sense) and ponders the nature of romance in writing.

  6. Eggcorns

    Are you trying to pass mustard for all intensive purposes in a doggy dog world?

  7. "A Table Alphabeticall"

    Anne Curzan flips through the first English dictionary, published in London in 1604.

  8. Yup, uh huh, yes

    When it comes to expressing agreement, we can choose from an extensive range of options.

  9. Argh! Ugh! Oof!

    How and when should we use these interjections? Anne Curzan explains.