Language Arts & Disciplines

The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building

The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV

The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might:

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003:

On Teaching and Writing Fiction:

Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx

The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary:

Selected Journalism 1850-1870: 1850-1870

Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society, Fourth Edition

Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths, and Profanity in English

Living to Tell the Tale: A Guide to Writing Memoir