Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: On Cityscapes
How are cities portrayed in the novel?
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: The Ambassadors
Book club discussion of The Ambassadors.
One-Hit Wonders: From Hapax to Googlewhacks
Ben Zimmer looks at hapax legomena.
The Personality Survey: Results
Daniel Nettle takes a look at the personality survery results.
Michael Lindsay, Bud McFarlane and Richard Nixon
The story of what happened after Bud McFarlane woke up from his suicide attempt.
Quizzes and Gigs
Anatoly delves into word history for our entertainment.
Northern Territory, Australia
Ben’s Place of the Week is Northern Territory, Australia.
‘After a Journey’
Philip Davis blogs for Moreover.
On AIDS Psychiatry
An excerpt from Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry by Jimmie Holland, MD.
How To Approach the AIDS Pandemic
Mary Ann Cohen helps us understand the AIDS pandemic.
Friday procrastination: link love – YouTube, controversy, and the future of publishing
Ahh Friday…how I love your ways. Some fun distraction below. The New Yorker embraces YouTube. Bound to be controversial. Away with words lives! What do publishing industry folks think? “…a pot-smoking West Coast sales rep gets frustrated by the “idiots” he has to deal with at the companies he represents. An Oregonian publisher thinks the […]
Poetry: Now It:s Serious?
A poem by King Otho.
Buffalo Readings: Rafael Bueno Live at the Rotisserie Gallery –
The Buffalo Poets audio.
The Lowly Hyphen: Reports of Its Death are Greatly Exaggerated
When a new edition of a dictionary is published, you never know what people are going to pick up on as noteworthy. Last week, when the sixth edition of the ‘Shorter Oxford English Dictionary’ was officially launched, much of the surrounding publicity had to do with the all the brand-new material.
Life on Air: BBC Radio 4’s Milestones
David Hendy talks about five milestone moments in the history of BBC Radio Four
Monthly Gleanings
September 2007
Anatoly looks at some questions from the past month.