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Even for those well past school age, it’s hard to miss a bracing sense of new beginnings in the air. Try these audiobooks for that back-to-school feeling.

Beside Myself (episode #1535) - Episodes - A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Call them records, vinyl or vinyls? This debate hits at themes that are much larger than grammar or music.

The use of quotation marks for emphasis is an innovation, not a corruption.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

A comma with a dot on top? The semicolon is so much more than that We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A man walks into a bar. Seriously. He orders a nightcap to finish the evening, but the barman refuses, pointing to the clock. It’s after 11pm, when serving alcohol would be illegal. This is 1900, I should add. The scene is Fall River, south of Boston, where this barroom stalemate will soon erupt into a courtroom...