As you play our new anagramming game, Shuffalo, the words get longer and the challenge gets tougher. How many letters can you unscramble? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

The theme of today’s Mini Crossword: 2025 in poetry. www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

a very meowy christmas for all who celebrate!

"To travel home for the holidays is to find things different, but also the same." Maxine Davey on returning to the stories that shape our childhood holiday memories, for a Christmas dive into the LARB archive: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-stories-we-come-home-to/

A history of punctuation

How we came to represent (through inky marks) the vagaries of the mind, inflections of the voice, and intensity of feeling

by Florence Hazrat

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#language #linguistics

Highlights from the first hundred years of this magazine’s most succinct, quadrilateral humor. www.newyorker.com/cartoons/car...

Dora Schulz (1906-1974) and Heinz Griesbach (1918-2008) taught German at the *Goethe Institut* since the early 1950s. They wrote a *Grammatik der deutschen Sprache* in 1960. It contains the first full-fledged illustration of a *Feldermodell* for the German sentence.

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Maurice Grevisse (1895-1980), a Belgian teacher, wrote *Précis de grammaire française* in 1939. Inspired by Henri Bonnard, he added syntactic schemas to the 25th edition of 1959. This version of the book is still in print today as *Le petit Grevisse*. #linguistics

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La célèbre Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI) du Centre Pompidou, fermée depuis le mois de mars, a rouvert ses portes dans le bâtiment Lumière, dans le 12e arrondissement de Paris, ce lundi 25 août.
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Teachers, how well do you know #APA7 APA Style?

In this video, #APAStyle experts discuss which outdated guidelines (zombie guidelines) & APA Style myths (ghost guidelines) to watch out for! 🎃

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#Halloween #AcWri #TeachingAPAStyle

⌛Time is running out for #CuriousCures!

Don't miss your chance to see these fascinating medieval medical books and manuscripts, which are rarely on display together.

📍Open 6 Dec 2025 at the UL
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY

Image: @caiuscollege.bsky.social, MS 336/725

Instructors: This week’s topic (No. 5) in our On the Go series is about helping students "develop their knowledge of how journal articles work and why academic writers frequently use them."

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#AcWri #AcademicWriting #ResearchTips

In Lisbon? Nuno Castel-Branco will discuss THE TRAVELING ANATOMIST at the Academia das Ciências on December 19. RSVP here: buff.ly/elT2JBG

As 2025 comes to an end, our editors and critics have selected a dozen essential reads in nonfiction and a dozen, too, in fiction and poetry. See the full list: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_3K0Ek

"....coyly removing the work from centuries of conversations about taste, lineage, and merit...."

not a bad way to write about Joe Brainard's C Comics.

🗞️Qui dit dessin de presse, dit Gébé. Et qui dit Gébé… dit BnF !

En collaboration avec la Maison du dessin de presse,
la BnF présente la première rétrospective consacrée à Gébé (1929-2004), à visiter gratuitement sur le site François-Mitterrand jusqu'au 19 octobre : www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/ge...