Right and writer:the Pinker way with words

The Sense of Style. The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. By Steven Pinker. Allen Lane, €15.50. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.

Steven Pinker: dogmatically in pursuit of classic style. Picture: Bryce Vickmark

The Sense of Style

**The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century**

**By** Steven Pinker

**Allen Lane,** €15.50

**Reviewed by** Joanne Hayden

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Steven Pinker has spent much of his working life studying language. A linguist, experimental psychologist, Harvard professor and popular public intellectual, he is dauntingly erudite and accustomed to provoking debate.

His books include The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), and The Better Angels of our ...