📚 Writing with Style: The Economist Guide may not be the most important style guide to come out, but it has to be the funniest. Between the self-references and the dry wit lie many lessons: that even professional writers do some things a certain way because the alternative would “look weird”; that I use too many commas, the Oxford comma being one of them; and that if my name were ever to be mentioned in The Economist it would lose its diacritics — unless I insisted they stay. It earned its place on the shelf above the screen.