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The review’s final report, now published, recommends a much sharper focus on the provision of languages in primary schools.

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In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at how poetry elides AI safeguards, the new boom in nuclear power, sourcing ...

The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

A new study challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and ...

The 76th National Book Awards was a night of sobering speeches, soft acoustic performances and bookworms getting down on the ...

For years, scholars have believed they knew the earliest published works of the first American Indian novelist… until now.

Contrary to headlines claiming “The End of the English Major,” Hart is proud to say that enrollments at Columbia “are higher ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...