Liber de Mundo, an astronomical work of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), rendered into Latin via its Hebrew intermediary. Epistolæ Expeditionis, a translation of the valedictory letter of Ibn Bājja (Avempace ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Image: Richard B. Levine/Zuma Press Nothing bored me more during the summer of 2008 than the ...

Last year, a surprise best seller hit the British book market: a romp through Latin grammar, by a London journalist called Harry Mount. In Britain, the book was called Amo, Amas, Amat … and All That, ...

You probably weren’t surprised to learn I was an English major for one semester in college. This week, I’m leveling up the nerd factor and divulging another academic secret of mine: I took three years ...

My Atlantic colleague John McWhorter and I must have received the same high-frequency language-nerd alert, audible only to the types of people whose idea of fun is Esperanto grammar. We both recently ...