Ursula von Rydingsvard
An excerpt about Ursula von Rydingsvard.
An excerpt about Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Rosamund Bartlett celebrate’s Chekhov’s 150th birthday.
John Carey has been at various points in his life a soldier, a barman, a television critic, a beekeeper, a printmaker, and a professor of literature at Oxford. He is the Chief Book Reviewer for The Sunday Times in London. His book, What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the claims […]
A look at the iPad.
The author of Empire of Liberty, Gordon S. Wood, explains how the story of Rip Van Winkle epitomizes the cultural shift in American life from British colony to independent nation just a generation after the Revolution
Author Raymond Arsenault sees his book turned into a film.
Our favorite cat recommends some good winter reads.
An excerpt from From Disgust to Humanity.
An original post from Gordon Thompson.
Some snowy excerpts from classic literature to suit Oxford’s current climate.
A look at the original reviews of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
An excerpt from Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India.
An excerpt from Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film.
Martin Stannard, author of the ODNB’s new entry on Muriel Spark, and of Muriel Spark: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009), writes about how he first met Spark.
An excerpt from Yoga Body by Mark Singleton.
An excerpt from Sex Appeal.