The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook: Hints on Camp Life
An excerpt from 1888’s The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, recently reprinted in the Oxford World’s Classics series.
On Ants
An excerpt from The Lives of Ants.
Happy Birthday Tennessee Williams
A birthday salute to Tennessee Williams.
The Origins of the Fundamentalist Mindset
The Fundamentalist Mindset sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. The collection is edited by Charles B. Strozier, a Professor of History at John Jay College, CUNY, and a practicing psychoanalyst, David M. Terman, Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, James W. Jones, a Professor of Religion and adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University and Katharine A. Boyd a doctoral student at John Jay College, CUNY.
Vague Measurements
Who decides how long a metre is?
Bridges, and What They Can Teach Us
Professor David Blockely on the lessons he believes the wider world can learn from bridge-building.
Traditionalism v. Individualism: The Struggle of the Conservative Youth.
Cahn and Carbone explore the challenges a conservative-minded youth face in an liberal-acting world.
Wikipedia: Write First, Ask Questions Later
Dennis Baron looks at Wikipedia.
Happy Birthday Philip Roth!
An excerpt in honor of Philip Roth’s birthday.
On Experimenting with Living Creatures
Rom Harré on the use of living things in scientific experiments throughout history.
Shakespeare, sex, and love: Recording sexual behaviour in the sixteenth century
It is in the nature of things that sexual behaviour that does not offend agreed norms makes no special stir. Even so it may be revealing. People masturbate, woo, marry, copulate, and give birth. Of these events the law requires only that marriages and, in Shakespeare’s time, baptisms rather than births be recorded. Analysis of such records may in itself illuminate the sexual mores of the period and, indeed, of Shakespeare and his family.
Should Everybody Write?
Or is There Enough Junk on the Internet Already?
Dennis Baron looks at the destabilizing technologies of communication.
China Marine: A Son’s Perspective
John Sledge reflects on his father’s book.
The Oxford Companion to the Book
Taking a look at how the ebook format compares and contrasts with various book formats throughout history.
Off With Their Heads!
How does Alice in Wonderland mirror our own political world?
Two Heads Are Not Always Better Than One: Labour’s Poster attacking David Cameron
James Hall, author of The Sinister Side, on the left-right symbolism in one of the Labour Party’s new election posters.