Redefining Death — Again
How do we define death?
Monsters and Wild Things
Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters looks at Where the Wild Things Are.
Mario Savio: Freedom’s Orator
An excerpt from Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s.
Did Director Steven Soderbergh Get The Chemistry Right…Again?
A chemical look at The Informant!.
A Selection of 18th Century Verse
Some of Kirsty’s favourite short poems from The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse.
The Peak-Performance Myth
How can you perform your best?
Bioterrorism Beginnings:
The Rajneesh Cult, Oregon, 1985
An excerpt from Bracing For Armageddon?
Friday procrastination: link love – Little Women, werewolves and banned books
What Cassie has been reading this week.
Fantasy and Reality: What is the Truth?
An excerpt from How Fantasy Becomes Reality.
Tennyson in The Quickening Maze
Tennyson expert Adam Roberts reviews The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, which features Tennyson as a main character
Humorous Quotations
Quotes to bring a smile to your face.
On Hammerstein and Sondheim
How Hammerstein mentored Sondheim.
Amazon Sales Rank: I’m being outsold by a book on tattoos
Dennis Baron, author of A Better Pencil, looks at Amazon sales rankings.
Obama At The UN General Assembly
Bosco reflects on Obama’s speech at the UN.
John Muir and the National Parks
Donald Worster looks at the new Ken Burns documentary.
What is it about Keats?
Sue Brown, author of Joseph Severn, A Life wonders what it was about Keats that brought out the best in people.