Holiday Help
David Tolin helps us prepare for the holidays
On Women, Sports and the New York Marathon
The authors of Playing With The Boys take a look at the NY Marathon.
On Sports and Women
Laura Pappano is a former education columnist for the Boston Globe and co-author of Playing With The Boys: Why Separate is not Equal in Sports. In the op-ed below she brings her love of football to play with her love of competition. If I hadn’t committed to baking a quiche (half ham, half broccoli and […]
Longtail Wars
Evan Schnittman explains how publishing is winning the Longtail War.
Ned Sherrin Remembered
By Kirsty OUP-UK All of us here at OUP-UK were saddened to hear of Ned Sherrin’s death on October 1, from throat cancer, at the age of 76. He was familiar to virtually everyone in the country as the presenter of the Radio 4 programme Loose Ends, but during his many years in showbusiness he […]
A Curse on Mean-Spirited Intellectuals:
And Literary Scholars Above All
Philip Davis is fed up with seeing literature treated as fodder for convoluted academic analysis.
‘After a Journey’
Philip Davis blogs for Moreover.
Life on Air: BBC Radio 4’s Milestones
David Hendy talks about five milestone moments in the history of BBC Radio Four
The New Gay
D. Michael Lindsay looks at Evangelical Americans.
A Letter from Liverpool: ‘All You Need Is – What?’
Philip Davis is back!
Why Royalties?
Evan Schnittman takes the debate on royalties further by questioning the structure of advances.
Friday procrastination: link love – medicine, mindsets, and Arthur Miller
What Rebecca has been reading this week.
The Rise and Fall of the First Internet
Donald Ritchie looks at the telegraph.
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.
Dumbing down the Declaration of Independence
Michael Ravitch looks at The Declaration of Independences.
This Day in History: The LP is Unvieled
On this day in 1948 Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS unvelied the LP, and by doing so, revolutionized the music industry.