Enfield, N. J. 2026. Larger, more mystical: when games become a way of life. Review of The Score by C. Thi Nguyen. The Times Literary Supplement, 6 February 2026. https://www.the-tls.com/politics-society/social-cultural-studies/the-score-c-thi-nguyen-book-review-n-j-enfield

Enfield, N. J. 2025. Hey y’all: a study of pronouns and how we use them. The Times Literary Supplement, 5 September 2025.

Enfield, N. J. 2024. Cancelled: The anthropologist Alfred Kroeber’s anti-racist credentials have been posthumously challenged. The Times Literary Supplement, 9 August 2024.

Enfield, N. J. 2024. How words influence us. Quillette Magazine website, 22 August 2024.

Enfield, N. J. 2024. Language Lessons: Revolutionizing the Way we Write and Speak. The Times Literary Supplement, 17 May 2024.

Enfield, N. J. 2024. Language conceals reality: How words guide our choices. iai News, 26 February 2024.

Enfield, N. J. 2023. The Israel-Hamas war is a battle of words as well as weapons. The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October 2023.

Enfield, N. J. 2023. Big tech is reading your mind: software engineers have become social engineers in our democracies. The Times Literary Supplement, 13 January 2023.

Enfield, N. J. 2022. Too much information: the growth and development of social technologies. The Times Literary Supplement, 15 July 2022.

Enfield, N. J. 2022. The Anatomy of Linguistic Turn-Taking in Human Interaction. Journal of the University of Sydney Linguistics Society 1.1: 1–12.

Enfield, N. J. 2021. Believe what you like: How we fit the facts around our prejudices. The Times Literary Supplement, July 17, 2021.

Enfield, N. J. 2021. Social media minefield trips up aspiring politicians. The Age. 12 April 2021. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2021. Are consumers actually confused by plant-based meat labelling? The Canberra Times. 23 June 2021.

Enfield, N. J. 2021. How to build a better funding system in three easy steps. The Australian. 28 July 2021. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2020. Normally hidden from public view. Farm Policy Journal. Volume 17 (Winter 2020), June 1, 2020, pages 20-24.

Enfield, N. J. 2019. Ideas spread like disease: Let’s treat them with the same caution. The Guardian. 24 April 2019. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2019. If we only confirm our biases, expect the same old vicious circles. The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 May 2019.

Enfield, N. J. 2018. In times of ‘alternative facts’ we must care about truth on a larger scale. The Guardian. 16 Nov 2018. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2018. We all play language games – but the boundaries are getting dangerously blurred. The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 August 2018.

Enfield, N. J. 2018. Our job as scientists is to find the truth. But we must also be storytellers. The Guardian. 20 July 2018. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2018. The ‘aitch’ or ‘haitch’ debate has a dark side. The Sydney Morning Herald. 21 May 2018.

Enfield, N. J. 2017. We’re in a post-truth world with eroding trust and accountability. It can’t end well. The Guardian. 16 November 2017.  (952 shares, 520 comments). PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2017. Why Human Speech Depends on Words like ‘Uh’ and ‘Mm-hmm’. The Wall Street Journal, October 27 2017.

Enfield, N. J. 2017. How Truth Matters to People. The Cube Magazine // B // Truth. Pages 36-31.

Enfield, N. J. 2017. Navigating the Post-Truth Debate: Some Key Coordinates. The Conversation. May 15, 2017. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2017. Whose Truth Is It Anyway? New Internationalist. April 1, 2017. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2017. Verbal Overshadowing. Edge Question 2017. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2017. Junk Cognition. Science Vol 357 Issue 6358 Page 1361. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2015. Accountability and the viral video: There are still no guarantees. The Conversation. November 2, 2015. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2015. From ‘Huh?’ to ‘Who?’: the universal utterances that keep us talking. The Conversation. October 8, 2015. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2015. The politics of public memory, from Watergate to Iraq. The Conversation. September 4, 2015. PDF here.

Dingemanse, Mark, and N. J. Enfield. 2014. Universal Social Rules Underlie Languages. Scientific American Mind. September 2014. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2013. Rejoinder to Daniel Everett. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Enfield, N. J. 2012. Diversity disregarded. Science, 337, 1295-1296. doi:10.1126/science.1225365. PDF here.

Enfield, N. J. 2012. Review of “Language, culture, and mind: Natural constructions and social kinds”, by Paul Kockelman. Language in Society, 41(5), 674-677.

Enfield, N. J. & J. Sidnell. 2012. Collateral Effects, Agency, and Systems of Language Use (reply to commentators). Current Anthropology, 53.3, 327-329.

Enfield, N. J. 2012. Language innateness [Letter to the Editor]. The Times Literary Supplement, October 26, 2012(5717), 6. Language Innateness

Enfield, N. J. 2010. Without social context? Science, 329(5999), 1600-1601.

Enfield, N. J. 2010. Human sociality at the heart of language [Inaugural lecture]. Nijmegen: Radboud University Nijmegen.

Enfield, N. J. 2010. Lost in translation [Letter to the editor]. New Scientist, 207 (2773), 31.

Enfield, N. J. 2009. Social motives for syntax. Science, vol. 324, p39.

Enfield, N. J. 2009. Common tragedy [Review of the book The native mind and the cultural construction of nature by Scott Atran Douglas Medin]. The Times Literary Supplement, September 18,2009, 10-11.

Enfield, N. J. 2008. Language as shaped by social interaction. (Comment on Christiansen and Chater, ‘Language as shaped by the brain’.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31.5, pp519-520. doi:10.1017/S0140525X08005104

Enfield, N. J. 2008. It’s a leopard! (Review of MacNeilage The Origin of Speech and Hurford The Origins of Meaning.) Times Literary Supplement, September 12, 2008, 12-13.

Enfield, N. J. 2007. Invited comment on ‘Agency’, by Paul Kockelman, Current Anthropology, 48, p392.

Enfield, N. J. 2005. Reply to commentators, Current Anthropology, 46.1.

Enfield, N. J. 2005. Invited comment on ‘Explorations in the deictic field’, by William F. Hanks, Current Anthropology, 46.2, 212.