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Brave New Words

REVIEW: 'Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language' by Adam Aleksic

Do I Have to Spell It Out for You?

REVIEW: ‘Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell’ by Gabe Henry

The Mamet Theory of Everything

REVIEW: ‘The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment’ by David Mamet

A War of Words

REVIEW: 'Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words' by Anne Curzan

Divorced From Reality?

REVIEW: ‘This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life’ by Lyz Lenz

More Fiction, Less Phone Time: Now There’s a Novel Idea

REVIEW: ‘The Novel, Who Needs It?’ by Joseph Epstein

Do You Speak American?

REVIEW: ‘The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language’

The Indispensable Humorist

REVIEW: ‘The Funny Stuff: The Official P.J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia’

The Various Positions of Leonard Cohen

REVIEW: ‘Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In’

Moving in Stereos

REVIEW: ‘Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie’