The New Yorker Updates Its Style Guide for the Internet Age
This week, the top copy editor of The New Yorker announced that the magazine had completed a “reëxamination” of its house style. A few things were changing. But its dedication…
Pierre Joris, Translator of the ‘Impossible’ Paul Celan, Dies at 78
Pierre Joris, a poet and translator who tackled some of the 20th century’s most difficult verse, rendering into English the complex work of the German-Romanian poet Paul Celan, died on…
Trump Made English the Official Language in a Country With 350 of Them
President Trump’s executive order making English the official language of the United States reached into history to argue its case, noting that the country’s founding documents were written in English.…
Trump Signs Order to Designate English as Official Language of the U.S.
President Trump signed an order designating English as the official language of the United States, the White House said on Saturday. The executive order rescinds a Clinton-era mandate that required…