Our Favorite Books: Part Three
Oxford employees share their favorite books.
What They Didn’t Say
We excerpt from What They Didn’t Say: A Book of Misquotations.
Celebrating Walt Whitman
An excerpt from Walt Whitman’s Memoranda During the War.
Our Favorite Books: Part Two
Oxford University Press staff share their favorite books.
Literary Criticism For the Masses
John Mullan, author of How Novels Work looks at the rise of literary criticism among the masses.
Our Favorite Books: Part One
Our favorite books.
Colonel Oates to Ian Fleming in Less Than Six Degrees
From the Civil War to James Bond.
This Day in History: Moby Dick is Published
Happy Birthday Moby Dick!
Steel Drivin’ Man: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Steel Drivin’ Man.
Rebecca’s Reading
The Broken Branch
Rebecca’s Reading the Broken Branch
Mourning Sheldon Meyer
Oxford University Press mourns Sheldon Meyer.
Women in Literature: Gwendolyn Brooks
A profile of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Women and Literature:
In this article from Black Women in America, Second Edition, Jacquelyn Y. McLendon profiles the new generation of fiction writers.
Happy Birthday Upton Sinclair!
OUP wishes Upton Sinclair a happy birhtday.
Women and literature: the dual tradition of African American fiction
The prevailing wisdom of most African Americanists, is that due to the distinctive history and acculturation of Africans in the British colonies in North America, African-American literature is most meaningfully assessed in the context of multiple geographical, oral, and literary heritages.
The origins of hip hop: Iceberg Slim
Today, we’ll look at one of the literary forerunners of the hip hop revolution; Iceberg Slim. Slim’s works are marked by a criticism of American justice, devotion to the politics of the Black Panthers, frank language, and a combination of violence and sexuality. They remain influential to this day.