Meet the Author: Hermione Lee
Professor Hermione Lee talks about her new book Biography: A Very Short Introduction.
Professor Hermione Lee talks about her new book Biography: A Very Short Introduction.
The answers to our Opera Names quiz.
An excerpt from Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, which was recently awarded The Dingle Prize.
A quiz about some of opera’s star figures.
The solution to Gordon Thompson’s riddle.
Can you answer Gordon Thompson’s riddle?
Author Elliott J. Gorn looks at John Dillinger films.
An excerpt from the late Professor Henry Chadwick’s recently-discovered biography of Augustine of Hippo.
A look at Michael Steinberg’s love of music in his own words.
What Cassie has been reading this week.
I’m reasonably sure that most American boys who reached adolescence in the 1960s knew Dillinger’s dick. It was enormous, preserved in formaldehyde at the Smithsonian Institution. Friends of mine who grew up on the east coast told me years later that on high school trips to Washington, the boys would spread out and look for it.
Donald Ritchie says goodbye to Walter Cronkite.
Dennis Barron looks at Amazon’s decision to pull copies of Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” from individual’s Kindle libraries.
John R. MacArthur gives us a preview of Tuesday’s Bryant Park Reading Room discussion.
An excerpt from On Living in an Old Country by Patrick Wright.
Anatoly Liberman explores the history of the word Viking.