Words about words...

How about a few meditations about the word: written, read, or taught?

Here columnist David Ulin laments the loss of the art of reading. And here, Ben Hall reports the explosion of e-books and e-commerce as one more problem for book sellers. And Lachlan Markay reports that Conservative books are once again climbing the best-sellers lists, but being ignored by the media.

Here is an interesting article about the messy business of translating ans recording a language by those who do it best: Wycliffe and SIL.

While here is a thought provoking article by Stanley Fish, who is a rather curmudgeonly professor who is a gadfly to academia (I agree with much of what he says, though not all!) talking about what words should constitute a college education.

And finally, here is an incisive and damning essay on the state of writing in our universities.