Written and directed by director Matthew Rankin, the comedy presents a Persian-language-inflected Canada, getting at timely ...

Creator Dan Erickson weighs in on how the very precise, intricate Lumon-speak conveys the weirdness of it all.

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A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.

Montreal writer Christopher DiRaddo says he's disappointed after a municipal library told him he's not allowed to hold his monthly book club there because it would violate Quebec's new language law.

Helmed by David A. Robertson—two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and a member of Norway House Cree ...

Hawaiian scholar Mary Kawena Pukui is credited with writing over 50 books, including the Hawaiian language dictionary and the ‘Ōlelo No’eau, a book collection of proverbs and poetical sayings. Author ...

By Erica Ackerberg Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives ...

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Since then, she’s written essays, a memoir and a children’s book. Now, after 12 years, her long-awaited fourth novel, “Dream Count,” arrives. It tells the story of four women — a ...

In our current culture wars, the left gets accused of playing loose with language that is supposedly eternal and universal, distorting the meaning of words in order to suit its ideology.