Rosamund Bartlett celebrate’s Chekhov’s 150th birthday.

Some snowy excerpts from classic literature to suit Oxford’s current climate.

A look at the original reviews of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

The second batch of UK book bloggers talk about their favourite books.

OUP author Elleke Boehmer chooses her favourite books.

Tennyson expert Adam Roberts reviews The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, which features Tennyson as a main character

John R. MacArthur gives us a preview of Tuesday’s Bryant Park Reading Room discussion.

An excerpt from one of Charles Dickens’s Christmas books, ‘The Battle of Life’.

Lawrence Goldman discusses why The Federalist Papers are still relevent today.

One of my personal favourite new releases this season in the UK is the paperback edition of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross. I could have chosen any one of hundreds of great anecdotes from and about authors I love, but in the end I decided to share with you this [...]