The 1987 General Election and Aftermath
An exerpt from The Oxford History of Britain.
Pediatric Research Contraints
When is it okay to include a child in a medical research study?
The Book, the Scroll, and the Web
Dennis Baron looks at how we read.
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.
Let Them Read Whole Books
Author Joy Hakim looks at how we educate our children.
Happy Birthday Tennessee Williams
A birthday salute to Tennessee Williams.
Churchill’s Children at Words by the Water
Churchill’s Children author John Welshman reflects on his first literary festival
Vague Measurements
Who decides how long a metre is?
A Monumental Achievement
Elvin Lim looks at health-care reform.
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.
Happy Birthday Philip Roth!
An excerpt in honor of Philip Roth’s birthday.
The Rising: An Excerpt
An excerpt from The Rising.
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.
A Week of Politics
Elvin Lim leads us through the current political landscape.
False Light Lawsuit Targets Authors
of Ohio Travel Book and Website
Author John A. Neuenschwander looks at false light lawsuits against the Weird Ohio book and blog.