The Ampersand Quarterly

And. A word used over 13 billion times in the English language. How common, how mysterious? Ampersand Quarterly strives to dissect the mystery of “and,” through the forces that yoke two words together & the bizarre but vital spaces between them. After all, the journal’s namesake - & itself - comes from the slurring together of “and per se and,” itself a ligature of ideas. Each issue, Ampersand Quarterly announces a two-word theme, connected by ...