The world’s a mess, and it’s a fine time to be wishing a happy seventy-fifth birthday to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, writer, theorist, translator, activist, and noted rocker of saris and… Read more »

Last week, the world lost a titan of language reform—and, in the same stroke, one of its oldest political activists—when Zhou Youguang, who wrote his name 周有光, died in Beijing a day after… Read more »