Whether this ability to transform—both to mutate itself and to promise transformation and, thereby, opportunity to its speaker—is a gift of the English language or a reminder of its use as a tool of ...

The first high-level bilateral meet with the Taliban regime hit the headlines recently. To understand how India is navigating ...

Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels imperative. Set in ...

For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.

English,” Sanaz Toossi’s strikingly thoughtful and moving new Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, lexplores what you give up when you express yourself in a tongue not ...

Absolutely nothing gets lost in the translation of Sanaz Toossi’s English as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a group of ...

Sanaz Toossi’s buoyant, Pulitzer-winning drama follows a group of Iranians learning English, highlighting the desires and circumscribed circumstances that have brought them to the class.