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Are you a lifelong logophile, a voracious vocabularian, or a savvy sesquipedalian? If so, you've come to the right place. Between books, texts, emails, articles, and Wikipedia rabbit holes, we all ...

Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy Pantheon 256 pages, $22 If Randall Kennedy could see me now—huddled over my keyboard, tense, worrying over a single word—he would ...