Oxford World’s Classics Quiz: Part Three
The third part of the week-long Oxford World’s Classics Quiz.
The third part of the week-long Oxford World’s Classics Quiz.
Ben’s Place of the week is Portland, Oregon.
Daniel Walker Howe reflects on winning The Pulitzer Prize.
Part Two of the OWC Quiz.
Pamela Ronald responds to an editorial by Paul Krugman.
An excerpt from Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa.
Alexander R. Lucas, M.D., author of Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and former Head of the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic. For forty years he has been a recognized authority on anorexia, with a practice that drew patients from around the world. Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa defines anorexia, […]
Part One of the Oxford World’s Classics Quiz.
A poem from Michael Manner for poetry month.
A look at the Szyk Haggadah.
LeAnna Keith reflects on the anniversary of the Colfax Massacre.
Ammon Shea shares a pet peeve.
[display_podcast] The word clique sounds French doesn’t it. Well, it was. Of course it means “a tight group of people” and is often used in a disparaging way.
OWC editor Judith Luna tells us about the new look classics, which we have just launched at the London Book Fair.
By Anatoly Liberman In olden days women were supposed to be sweet, docile, and, if possible, incorporeal. On the other hand, men, subject to the universal law of contrasts, threw their weight about, and, once they “arrived,” demonstrated corpulence. They invented countless offensive words referring to women’s way of walking.