Otherwords | Punctuation's Weird Backstory | Season 5 | Episode 9

How did we get from written words scrunched together without any spaces or symbols to punctuation?

Decolonizing Language by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o review – final words of a literary giant

An exhilarating collection distills the late writer’s thinking on power, exile and the importance of the mother tongue

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EU accused of leaving ‘devastating’ copyright loophole in AI Act

Architect of copyright law says EU is ‘supporting big tech instead of protecting European creative ideas’

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EU accused of leaving ‘devastating’ copyright loophole in AI Act

Architect of copyright law says EU is ‘supporting big tech instead of protecting European creative ideas’

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Are novelists who worry about the rise of AI really ‘classist and ableist’?

An international writing organisation appeared to greenlight the use of AI, prompting anger, the resignation of four board members and an entire creative community to ask: ‘What?!’

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‘My own inner critic is a bully’: Julia Cameron on creative demons and updating The Artist’s Way

Creativity guru Julia Cameron has long inspired others. Now she’s sharing her own secret weapon

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The Relation of Speech to Reading and Writing

OK, we’re here, at our third paper in our series examining the naturalness, or not, of gaining literacy. Liberman, A. M. (1992). Chapter...

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