PowerPoint for Martians?
Stephen Kosslyn provides some PowerPoint tips.
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: On Relaxing With Huck
I feel pretty sheepish admitting this but it took me a while this month to open The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I assumed that since I had read it before, the book would not hold the same magic for me. I was wrong. I spent a nice portion of last weekend relaxing in a hammock […]
Email as literature?
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.
Dumbing down the Declaration of Independence
Michael Ravitch looks at The Declaration of Independences.
Scouting for Boys: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Robet Baden-Powell’s original 1908 ‘Scouting for Boys’
Molière Media
A podcast of James Monaco and Laurent Tirard talking about Moliere.
The English Reader: The Paucity of Allusion
The second post in a series by Diane and Michael Ravitch.
Introducing “Moreover” and the Ravitch Guest Blog
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 […]
Hooting Mind
A poem by King Otho.
Margaret Fuller: Virgin Lands
(1843-1844)
An excerpt from Margaret Fuller An American Romantic Life: The Public Years, by Charles Capper.
Looking For a Few Good Muslims
Jenkins reflects on the Lancaster House conference on “Islam and Muslims in the World Today.”
Dan Ozzi, Chuck Close and
The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
Dan Ozzi looks at Chuck Close.
Literariness: How Novels Work
An excerpt from John Mullan’s ‘How Novels Work’ to get you in the mood for summer reading.
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The summer book is Huckleberry Finn.
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: Guess the Summer Pick
What will the summer book club pick be? Can you guess?
A 4th of July Barbeque Quiz
Andrew Smith, editor of the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, is here to test your knowledge of barbecuing in America.