Monsters and Wild Things
Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters looks at Where the Wild Things Are.
A Selection of 18th Century Verse
Some of Kirsty’s favourite short poems from The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse.
Friday procrastination: link love – Little Women, werewolves and banned books
What Cassie has been reading this week.
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.
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.
What’s the UK’s favourite quotation?
We’re celebrating the publication of the new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and we want to know what the nation’s favourite memorable quotation is.
Translating Clarice Lispector: A Video
A video of Benjamin Moser.
Directions for the Gardiner: Top Tips
Juliet Evans from OUP UK selects some top gardening tips from John Evelyn’s Directions for the Gardiner and Other Horticultural Advice.
Meet the Author: Hermione Lee
Professor Hermione Lee talks about her new book Biography: A Very Short Introduction.
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.
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 While increasing numbers of long-out-of-date, public-domain […]
Friday procrastination: link love – Iran, New York, and social media
What Cassie has been reading this week.
Slang Words: Not What You Think
Ten slang words so hip they don’t even sound like slang.
Book Models
A look at two very personal cover images.
Waves of Woolf: 19th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference
Princeton is playing at the 19th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. What’s it all about?