Laura Spinney
Laura Spinney is a journalist and the author of Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, and two novels.
English could settle into a state of “diglossia” where a gulf exists between the written form and its spoken varieties, but the two are bound into a single tongue.
New research compares the roles and political clout of royal women in eight societies spanning five continents and more than 4,000 years.