Happy Birthday Anton Chekhov!
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | February 3, 2010
Rosamund Bartlett celebrate’s Chekhov’s 150th birthday.
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | February 3, 2010
Rosamund Bartlett celebrate’s Chekhov’s 150th birthday.
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | January 14, 2010
Some snowy excerpts from classic literature to suit Oxford’s current climate.
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | January 13, 2010
A look at the original reviews of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & History & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | December 17, 2009
The second batch of UK book bloggers talk about their favourite books.
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | December 15, 2009
OUP author Elleke Boehmer chooses her favourite books.
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Poetry & Prose & UK | October 1, 2009
Tennyson expert Adam Roberts reviews The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, which features Tennyson as a main character
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Current Events & Leisure & Literature & OWC & Prose | July 20, 2009
John R. MacArthur gives us a preview of Tuesday’s Bryant Park Reading Room discussion.
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | December 18, 2008
An excerpt from one of Charles Dickens’s Christmas books, ‘The Battle of Life’.
Filed in A-Featured & American History & Current Events & History & OWC & Politics & UK & VSI | October 23, 2008
Lawrence Goldman discusses why The Federalist Papers are still relevent today.
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | October 1, 2008
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 [...]