The Genius of Language Fifteen Writers

Wendy Lesser-a celebrated essayist in her own right-has put together a rich and often surprising work, a book brimming with pleasures for lovers of literature, travel, memoir, and, above all, language.

Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of four previous books. Her reviews and essays appear in major newspapers and magazines across the country. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and in 1997 she received the Morton Dauwen Zaub Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and son.

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BANGLA
The Way Back Bharati Mukherjee
Chinese
Yes and No Amy Tan
Czech
Trouble with Language Josef Skvorecky
Dutch
Circus Biped Bert Keizer
French
French Without Tears Luc Sante
German
Prelude Thomas Laqueur
Gikuyu
Recovering the Original Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Greek
Split Self Nicholas Papandreou
Italian
Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald
Korean
Personal and Singular Ha-yun Jung
Polish
On Being an Orphaned Writer Louis Begley
Russian
The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye Gary Shteyngart
Scots
Boswell and Mrs. Miller James Campbell
Spanish
Footnotes to a Double Life Ariel Dorfman
Yiddish
My Yiddish Leonard Michaels
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The Genius of Language Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue

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