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OUPblog celebrates Darwin’s birthday–a day late, but very enthusiastically! Here’s an excerpt from Darwin’s Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character, an informal autobiography.
Anatoly’s January gleanings.
Scotland: A Very Short Introduction author Rab Houston talks about the history of Burns Suppers.
What OUP staffers read this year.
Test your literary skills with our anecdotes quiz.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the long path that led to Sen. Barack Obama being declared President-elect.
An examination of the historic candidacy of Barack Obama within the context of the civil rights movement and the changing nature of black politics.
Peters explores the word “Cylon”.
Anatoly Liberman looks at the word “Berserk”.
An excerpt from The Great Terror.
What Kirsty has been reading recently.
An excerpt from ‘Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poetry’ by Janet Gezari.
A closer look at Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.
By Purdy, Director of Publicity Michael Manner and I were English majors at Plattsburgh State before the days of email, before the days of the fax. Indeed, the modern technology of the time was floppy disk computers, and the CD was quickly replacing the cassette tape. Manner and I have kept in touch through the […]
By Purdy, Director of Publicity Michael Manner and I were English majors at Plattsburgh State before the days of email, before the days of the fax. Indeed, the modern technology of the time was floppy disk computers, and the CD was quickly replacing the cassette tape. Manner and I have kept in touch through the […]
Anatoly explores the history of spelling with the letter w.