Kenyan literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is 87 and has struggled with his health in recent years, but he still hopes to complete a new book.

Does knowing a language mean knowing a lot of words, or how to speak it properly? The answer largely depends on your goals.

READING Begum Rokeya’s 1931 speech ‘Dhwongser Pathe Bongio Mussalman’ (Bengal Muslims on the way to ruin) in the mid-1990s heralded a landmark moment for my initiation into gender studies. Around that ...

When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry examines fictional language, ...