Relatively interesting

There's a very accessible and reasonably well-written article by Guy Deutscher in the New York Times Magazine on the current state of knowledge vis-à-vis the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I haven't read much from Deutscher, but he is a bona-fide linguist, so for once my issues with an article in the popular press relate more to spin and emphasis than to glaring errors of fact. (In particular, I think he's harsher on old Ben Whorf than strictly necessary, but he's hardly alone in that.) Nothing in the article will comes as news to a well-informed layman, let alone someone actually in the field, but the rest of you may it interesting to read what he has to say about languages where directions are expressed purely geographically instead of primarily egocentrically and about recent findings on expressive dimensions of grammatical gender.