Who’s Who in The Ring
Looking at the character of Brünnhilde from Wagner’s The Ring.
Looking at the character of Brünnhilde from Wagner’s The Ring.
Mills argues that the general public would care much more about intrusions to their privacy if they had a better idea of how often it is subtly violated.
Lim looks at Sarah Palin’s indirect answers in the debate last week.
DuBois questions what happens when overly strict ethical guidelines hinder research.
What Rebecca has been reading this week.
Cassie reads a dictionary of slang and shares some of the great words she finds.
The podictionary word of the week is “cleavage”.
‘Credit crunch’ is OUP UK’s Word of the Year.
Anatoly Liberman looks at the word “hello”.
An excerpt from Clara E. Rodríguez’ book, Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood.
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 […]