Dickens’s11th novel satirises the institutions of government and society, in particular the Circumlocution Office, a department run purely for the benefit of its incompetent officials ...

Patients who describe what a word means instead of providing the name are employing circumlocution. When patients fail to recognize what an object is, they are exhibiting visual agnosia caused by ...

Dickens’s 11th novel satirises the institutions of government and society, in particular the Circumlocution Office, a department run purely for the benefit of its incompetent officials ...

Binyavanga Wainaina belonged to a second-wave, post-independence cohort that could put the past – and the Cold War – behind them without feeling they’d lost track of history: it was Africa’s moment ...