A Very Short History of Burns Suppers
Scotland: A Very Short Introduction author Rab Houston talks about the history of Burns Suppers.
Women, Crime, and Character
Nicola Lacey compares images of female criminality.
Favorite Books 2008
What OUP staffers read this year.
Dickens’s Christmas Books: The Battle of Life
An excerpt from one of Charles Dickens’s Christmas books, ‘The Battle of Life’.
Books of 2008 from OUP-UK
Staff from OUP-UK choose their books of 2008.
Did Milton Know Shakespeare?
An excerpt from John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought, by Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns.
Cat Blogging: Nikita Reads
Nikita the cat tells us about her favorite books.
Shakespeare’s Undirected Letters: Critical Confusion in King Lear
An excerpt from Alan Stewart’s new book ‘Shakespeare’s Letters’.
Literary Anecdotes: A Quiz
Test your literary skills with our anecdotes quiz.
The Oxford Book of Death: Last Words
An excerpt from The Oxford Book of Death.
Reading Opening Lines
Ammon Shea has a reading dilemma.
Reading Spines
Ammon Shea tells us why book spines inspire him.
The Enchanted Island: A Yom Kippur Tale
A tale to help us celebrate Yom Kippur.
Jane Austen: A Literary Anecdote
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 […]
Proverbs for the Bloggers
Some proverbial advice for bloggers.
Drawing the Wind: L’Shana Tova 5769
Long ago, on the Spanish island of Majorca, a young boy spent most of each day at the shore, sketching the ships that sailed into the harbor. Solomon was a wonderful artist, everyone agreed. His drawings seemed so real that people wondered if the waves were as wet as they seemed-or the sun as hot.