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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.
Michael Ravitch looks at The Declaration of Independences.
An excerpt from Robet Baden-Powell’s original 1908 ‘Scouting for Boys’
A podcast of James Monaco and Laurent Tirard talking about Moliere.
The second post in a series by Diane and Michael Ravitch.
It’s a rare opportunity when I get to both introduce a wonderful new blog and announce that OUP authors will be guest blogging there all week. Moreover: Life and Art is The Economist’s new culture blog headed up by Emily Bobrow. Everyday this week Michael and Diane Ravitch, authors of The English Reader: What Every […]
A poem by King Otho.
An excerpt from Margaret Fuller An American Romantic Life: The Public Years, by Charles Capper.
Jenkins reflects on the Lancaster House conference on “Islam and Muslims in the World Today.”
Dan Ozzi looks at Chuck Close.
An excerpt from John Mullan’s ‘How Novels Work’ to get you in the mood for summer reading.
The summer book is Huckleberry Finn.
What will the summer book club pick be? Can you guess?
Andrew Smith, editor of the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, is here to test your knowledge of barbecuing in America.
David Acevedo writes for the Buffalo Poets.
Is Tess a pure woman? Why? Or does she, in losing purity, at least gain responsibility for her life?