Documentaries Come Out of the Shadow at Sundance
Patricia Aufderheide provides some Sundance recommendations.
Milton in 2008
Four hundred years after the birth of John Milton, he still lives, his example still inspires, his words still echo. “Paradise Lost” is played on the stage, is sung to music, is choreographed for a ballet; it is an audiobook, the subject of countless theses and dissertations – and even paintings.
Sweeney Todd
The trailer to Sweeney Todd.
Follow the [Ad] Money
Donald Ritchie takes a closer look at newspapers.
Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd
Robert Mack teaches us about Sweeney Todd.
Who Wrote Sweeney Todd?
Who wrote Sweeney Todd?
Lustful Cannibalism
A closer look at Sweeney Todd.
Creationist Politics in Texas:
A Sad New Chapter in the Continuing Story of Intelligent Design
Barbara Forrest reflects.
Kindle Roundup
Links to Kindle reports.
Kindle: The Holy Grail or the last gasp of eBooks?
Kindle has arrived! Evan Schnittman reviews the new ereader for us.
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.