Amazon Fail 2.0: Bookseller’s Big Brother removes Orwell’s Big Brother from Kindles everywhere
Dennis Barron looks at Amazon’s decision to pull copies of Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” from individual’s Kindle libraries.
The Legacy of Harper’s Magazine, William Dean Howells
and Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer
John R. MacArthur gives us a preview of Tuesday’s Bryant Park Reading Room discussion.
Moving House: An Excerpt
An excerpt from On Living in an Old Country by Patrick Wright.
What Did The Vikings Do Before They Began to Play Football?
Anatoly Liberman explores the history of the word Viking.
Family Strategies and Nuns without Vocation
An excerpt from Nuns: A History of Convent Life by Silvia Evangelisti.
The Beach Boys and Mythic California
An excerpt from Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 by Kevin Starr.
Friday procrastination: link love – Dan Brown, Harry Potter and Vladmir Nabokov
What Cassie has been reading this week.
How Cannibalism Caused a New Guinean Epidemic
Can an ancient disease be linked to cannibalism?
Riddle Me That, Riddle Me This…: The Solution
The answer to yesterday’s riddle.
Meet the Author: Owen Davies
Watch Owen Davies talk about his book Grimoires: A History of Magic Books.
Riddle Me That, Riddle Me This…
Can you solve the riddle?
Henry Ford Learns the Most Expensive Art Lesson in History
An excerpt from Design in the USA by Jeffrey L. Meikle.
Michael Jackson, Nostalgia, and the 1980s
Elvin Lim looks at 80’s nostalgia.
Work, Life, Balance: Blondin over Niagara
On this day in history…
American War Propaganda Top Ten
The top ten propaganda messages of the last century.
OUP USA on The AAP/ Authors Guild Settlement With Google
OUP USA President Tim Barton has published a detailed overview and position statement regarding the AAP/Authors Guild Settlement with Google which can be found here. Below is a brief excerpt from the piece. “…What once seemed at least debatable has now become irrefutable: If it’s not online, it’s invisible. While increasing numbers of long-out-of-date, public-domain […]