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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker

By Daniel Wahl

Mar 21, 2016
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker. New York: Penguin Books, 2015. 368 pp. $17.00 (paperback).

Steven Pinker begins a new book on writing by finding faults in old books on writing—chief among them, The Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E. B. White.

Strunk and White, for all their intuiti…

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