Author

Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein is an essayist, short story writer, and the author, most recently, of Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life (Free Press).

Articles by Joseph Epstein

Lingua Americana

Lingua Americana

American English is the music accompanying the great American circus.
You Could Look It Up

You Could Look It Up

A well-made index can be a great aid helping us “arrive swiftly but unruffled at the passage—the quotation, the datum, the knowledge—we need.”
From Tom to T.S.

From Tom to T.S.

A review of Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford.
My Fair Language

My Fair Language

A review of The Language Wars: A History of Proper English, by Henry Hitchings

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