J.A. Pak: The Writing Blog

This is the chapter (Spoiler Alert) where the guys hang out telling tales of the women they’ve slept with. Genji

This is strictly for word nerds. And maybe science nerds. The Wall Street Journal wrote about an interesting scientific paper

Wouldn’t it be great if the right font made all our problems disappear? That hasn’t happened yet, but the Dutch

On Twitter, @ChrisGNguyen and I were talking about doing a post on favorite British words and phrases. I lived in

Conversational Reading has a fantastic interview with Ottilie Mulzet on translating László Krasznahorkai’s Animalinside. Translating is always tricky, more art

I love it when there’s this thing that’s so old, so ancient, we hardly think about it at all even

I’d never even heard of the Harbrace Handbook of English but I guess it’s a pretty big deal. Now in

I tried to read Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen this week. Last summer I’d read her Goodbye Tsugami and hadn’t been all

That’s one of the many things I ponder at Books, Personally! In a fun Q&A, my host and I discuss

MIT researcher Deb Roy rigged his home with video cameras so he could capture every moment of his baby son’s