The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker (Review)

By Daniel Wahl

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker
New York: Penguin Books, 2015
368 pp. $17.00 (paperback).

Steven Pinker begins a new book on writing by finding faults in old books on writing—chief among them, The Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E. B. White.

Strunk and White, for all their intuitive f…