language – Regular Marvels

Testing the rules

Human beings exist in language. Words and people change each other constantly. The meaning of words shifts as they slip

Why do writers quote other writers? The reasons are complex, and do not preclude such weaknesses as showing off—no one

Do you remember the first time you heard the true sound of your voice? Not the familiar sound inside your

To mark Bill Ming’s solo exhibition at New Art Exchange in Nottingham, we’ve worked together on a book about

‘I had to get out of the country without permission, which means I have to cross my fingers when I

My old friend Dave and I are doing the final proofs of the English version of Bread and Salt: it

‘I’m used to thinking that stories in English are so much richer or more important than stories I hear in

‘You cannot understand the migrant if you haven’t heard his story first.’ Gazmend Kapllani In the course of working on

Yesterday I sent the draft text of Bread and Salt to the artists whose experiences of coming to Europe form

Be Like Water – Hetain Patel The ruler has already been a language teacher’s cane and a samurai sword dancing