Words have a life cycle, as do we all. Some words appear when they’re needed, then die when they’re no longer of use. (O, could that be said of some men among us.) “Liege,” for example, has been ...

In Mario Levrero’s novel Empty Words a writer, unable to change the vast mess of his life, decides to improve one small part of it: his handwriting. My graphological self-therapy begins today. This ...