The Great Terror: An Introduction
An excerpt from The Great Terror.
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.
What Rebecca has been reading this week.
Happy Friday to all. Next week I will be at the Tools of Change Conference but have no fear, there will still be new posts on the blog. If you are at the conference please come introduce yourself to me! I’ll be the one with the laptop. David Lehman’s playlist. A co-worker sent me this […]
An excerpt from the introduction to The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies.
Congratulations to the NBCC nominees.
Happy birthday J.R.R. Tolkien!
John Brehm shares a poem on the blog.
Ben Zimmer looks at hapax legomena.
Philip Davis blogs for Moreover.
Below Philip Davis, author of Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life, combines science with literature to convince us to read out loud more often.