Nation Topics - Lexicography | The Nation

Ann Blair’s Too Much to Know explains how across the centuries the profusion of information has always inspired readers to invent shortcuts to knowledge.

The career of W.C. Minor is a reminder that the legacy of Yale's lexicographers is no less noteworthy than that of its deconstructionists.

The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is a reserve set aside for thinking about the categorical inferiority of destruction to creation.

The richness of baseball's old, weird vernacular is pure, pointless creativity.

Would a master thesaurus contain the history of human perception?

There's more slang than dictionaries can capture, but two new lexicons speak volumes on the riches of language.