Linguist Gaston Dorren's book is endlessly interesting — and you don't have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it: He has a talent for... For centuries, people have used mythology to try to make ...
"Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution" -- or as we will call it for the remainder of this review, "Babel" -- was nothing short of extraordinary.