Oxford World’s Classics Book Club:
Quotes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Music is a good thing.”
“Music is a good thing.”
Ben Zimmer takes a close look at prepositions.
An excerpt from Tom Lodge’s critical biography ‘Mandela’
Anatoly answers questions gleaned from your comments.
A look at free will and rare diseases.
Philip Jenkins and Miranda Hassett continue their conversation.
Ben’s Place of the Week is Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn.
An email exchange between Miranda Hassett and Philip Jenkins.
An excerpt from Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification.
Christopher Peterson argues that character is real.
Idris Goodwin poses an excellent questions, “What is they feeding our kids?”
What Rebecca has been reading this week.
An excerpt from K. David Harrison’s book.
One question I often field in my capacity as OUP’s editor for American dictionaries is, ‘What’s the longest word in the dictionary?’ I don’t hear it as often as ‘How do I get a new word in the dictionary?’ but it still comes up from time to time. My stock answer isn’t very interesting: ‘It depends…’
Quotations dictionary editor Elizabeth Knowles talks about the new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations.
Robert Cherry, author of Welfare Transformed reflects on the show Chasing Amy.