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Crying Wolof

by Jesse Sheidlower John Leland kicks off his entertaining new book, Hip: The History, with a seductive little linguistic anecdote. The word hip, he says, derives from…

Listening to My Father

By Edward Curtin   Although my father, whose namesake I am, died twenty-nine years ago, I just spent a hilarious and profound afternoon with him.  For…

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