Three novels explore the idea of translators as traitors to themselves.

A new generation of activists revives interest in a native language as Taiwan seeks distance from China.

“I’d be lying if I said I’ve always enjoyed reading.”

The language-learning app won’t make you fluent, but maybe that’s not the point.

How forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.

“Conserbado believed that everything he wrote was God’s gift to mankind.”

Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.

In the face of genocide, displacement and technology, a new project hopes to preserve an oral storytelling tradition from Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.

“Oh, how I admire the capacity of the Spanish language to express uncertainty so precisely!”

“​​Day after day, I kept turning up the volume of the music, but it only seemed further and further away. After a few months, it had disappeared completely.”

Issue 22: Language