Culture and Arts

Joan L. Cannon writes: "We have more words than most other modern languages. Of course we don’t need to know them all and couldn’t use them all (though I think Nabokov may have tried). Yet, that richness makes maximum precision almost always poss… more »

Jo Freeman reviews Women Making America, covering women’s history from the Revolution to the present day. Chock full of colorful images, it swoops high and low, sometimes mapping the forest and sometimes looking at a tree. more »

Tam Gray writes: "Tennis Ball lettuce, Moon and Stars watermelon and Telephone peas in 1943; Ernest's garden in Garden City, LI; the First Lady's kale, shallots and fennel and a culinary historian's theory, ""The more democratic our Pre… more »

Rose Mula writes, "No one who has ever heard it can forget the poignant, Passau du tempu ca Berta filava, or "The time for Bertha to weave is ended,” roughly equivalent to “Make hay while the sun shines,” but probably means that synthetic fib… more »