Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: Families in Huckleberry Finn
Who is Huck’s family?
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Arab Stereotypes in Huck Finn
Why did Jim dress up as an Arab?
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Quotes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Music is a good thing.”
On Lesch-Nyhan Disease
A look at free will and rare diseases.
Meeting People: The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Quotations dictionary editor Elizabeth Knowles talks about the new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations.
Learning from Willy Loman: The Loss Of Sadness
An excerpt from The Loss of Sadness.
Friday procrastination: link love – books, blogs, and billboards
Happy Friday to all! It’s a rainy day out there so I suggest curling up with your laptop and exploring the links below. Get clicking! Leonard Cohen on how to “speak” poetry. The most ingenious billboard in the world. Are you a good citizen? On writing too well for the internet. Did the author […]
PowerPoint for Martians?
Stephen Kosslyn provides some PowerPoint tips.
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: On Relaxing With Huck
I feel pretty sheepish admitting this but it took me a while this month to open The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I assumed that since I had read it before, the book would not hold the same magic for me. I was wrong. I spent a nice portion of last weekend relaxing in a hammock […]
Email as literature?
Is the Internet good for literature? On first glance, it seems so. Between internet forums, blogs, messages and emails, nearly everyone is writing, and reading, certainly more than we did just a few years ago, when the ubiquity of television and the telephone seemed to be making literacy obsolete.
Molière Media
A podcast of James Monaco and Laurent Tirard talking about Moliere.
The English Reader: The Paucity of Allusion
The second post in a series by Diane and Michael Ravitch.
Introducing “Moreover” and the Ravitch Guest Blog
It’s a rare opportunity when I get to both introduce a wonderful new blog and announce that OUP authors will be guest blogging there all week. Moreover: Life and Art is The Economist’s new culture blog headed up by Emily Bobrow. Everyday this week Michael and Diane Ravitch, authors of The English Reader: What Every […]
Hooting Mind
A poem by King Otho.
Margaret Fuller: Virgin Lands
(1843-1844)
An excerpt from Margaret Fuller An American Romantic Life: The Public Years, by Charles Capper.
Literariness: How Novels Work
An excerpt from John Mullan’s ‘How Novels Work’ to get you in the mood for summer reading.