"Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary" by Stefan Fatsis
Book of the week
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How is it that langui-crats and word freaks come up with the word of the year? And what does a word of the year really mean to America?
Journalist Stefan Fatsis writes in his new book: “As a culture we are forever searching for ways to make sense of our big, complicated, confusing world.”
Fatsis’s rather wordy book at 300 plus pages, mixes the intriguing history of dictionaries with the contemporary challenge of capturing our dialectical zeitgeist. And he answers the question in "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary" among others: “What does a dictionary even mean” these days?
In his new book, “Why Brains Need Friends,” neuroscientist Ben Rein argues that social connection is just as important to human flourishing as exercise and nutrition.
The new year begins with a host of promising titles from George Saunders, Julian Barnes, Jennette McCurdy, Karl Ove Knausgaard and more. Here’s a look ahead at what’s publishing this month.
