Celebrating Sequoyah and his Cherokee alphabet
The writing system the Native American devised for his people was soon followed by a printing press, a newspaper and a far higher literacy rate than that of their oppressors
My grandmother’s perfect pub – a memoir by Laura Thompson
As an emigrant from Scotland, I was taken aback by the weird foreignness of the south of England. Some of…
Northern, posh and Brummie are the only accents we recognise
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Rab C. Nesbitt excepted, it has become quite difficult to infer much from people’s appearance. In these…
Learning to talk
One of the great achievements of science is that so many of its branches, from astronomy to zoology, have been…
Crying Wolfe
He might be 85 but Tom Wolfe is going strong with a new book and a dustjacket photo that still…
