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John Carey has been at various points in his life a soldier, a barman, a television critic, a beekeeper, a printmaker, and a professor of literature at Oxford. He is the Chief Book Reviewer for The Sunday Times in London. His book, What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the claims […]
What Rebecca has been reading.
A look at the iPad.
The podictionary word of the week is “reptile”.
A short extract from James C. Whorton’s The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play.
The author of Empire of Liberty, Gordon S. Wood, explains how the story of Rip Van Winkle epitomizes the cultural shift in American life from British colony to independent nation just a generation after the Revolution
Anatoly answers questions.
An excerpt from Drugs: A Very Short Introduction by Prof. Les Iversen, the new chairman of the UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Elvin Lim’s weekly post looks at Obama’s problems.
Author Raymond Arsenault sees his book turned into a film.
John A. Neuenschwander looks at defamation cases that involve professional responsibility.
Dennis Baron looks at multitasking.
An excerpt from Familicidal Hearts.
What Rebecca has been reading.
Our favorite cat recommends some good winter reads.
In memory of John Irwin.