Bad Language

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Author: So Mayer Publisher: Peninsula Paperback Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025 Sam says… This is the second book that I have published with So and it’s a book that is so rich with ideas and innovative ways of speaking that it’s hard to gloss except with the simple exhortation: READ IT! It is a manifesto and a glossary. It’s an essay and a song. It’s perhaps easier to describe the book by what it DOES: which is to make visible the often submerged structures of power underpinning language – how we use it, how it is used against us – in order to offer some way out. We all need a bit of what So’s serving, trust me! Show more