James Geary
James Geary is the author of Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It; I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World; and the New York Times bestseller The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, among other books. University of Chicago Press will publish a new edition of The World in a Phrase in 2025.
