Communicators. Migrants. Soothsayers. Beings more deserving of the rights of personhood than the corporations that have been conferred that legal protection. Editor and artist Katie Holten celebrates ...

The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a tree. If you're reading this in English, you're on a branch that traces back to a common ancestor with Scots, which traces back to a ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words together into never-before-spoken or -written sentences," said ...

The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape By Katie Holten, Tin House Books. 320 pp. $26.96. Communicators. Migrants. Soothsayers. Beings more deserving of the rights of personhood ...