It is a singular fate to be the last of one’s kind. That is the fate of the men and women, nearly all of them elderly, who are—like Marie...

On a recent flight from Tokyo to Beijing, at around the time that my lunch tray was taken away, I remembered that I needed to learn...

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But this hour, we try to do just that. We meet a woman who taught a 27-year-old...

Susan Schaller believes that the best idea she ever had in her life had to do with an isolated young man she met one day at a community...

One morning, neurologist Jill Bolte Taylor woke up with a headache. A blood vessel then burst inside her left hemisphere, and silenced...

In the late 1970s, a new language was born. And Ann Senghas, Associate Professor of Psychology at Barnard, has spent the last 30 years...

Nearly half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world are expected to vanish in the next 100 years. One of them is Athabaskan, a...

Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood by Michele Morano via Crab Orchard Review BY LITRAGGER ON AUGUST 21, 2014 ·ESSAY AND MEMOIR REDUX...

“Education,” Horace Mann declared in 1848, “is a great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery.”...