Relaunching the Oxford World’s Classics
OWC editor Judith Luna tells us about the new look classics, which we have just launched at the London Book Fair.
Women Who Walk Heavily or Too Much
By Anatoly Liberman In olden days women were supposed to be sweet, docile, and, if possible, incorporeal. On the other hand, men, subject to the universal law of contrasts, threw their weight about, and, once they “arrived,” demonstrated corpulence. They invented countless offensive words referring to women’s way of walking.
This Date in History: April 16, 1960
A look at this day in history.
London Book Fair 2008: Photo of the Day
Kirsty’s favourite photo from the London Book Fair.
Chin Hills, Burma
Ben’s Place of the Week is Chin Hills, Burma.
Safire Speaks
William Safire videos.
Crack Heard Round The World: Parmigiano Reggiano Wheels
ver the weekend Whole Food Market attempted to earn a Guinness World Record for “Most Parmigiano Reggiano Wheels Ever Cracked” at the same time.
Help Me Write!
Who are your favorite travel writers?
London Book Fair 2008: First Impressions
The first part of Kirsty’s London Book Fair diary
Bipolar Nation
Today we are excited to bring you Emily Martin a professor of anthropology at New York University. In her most recent book, Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture, (published by Princeton University Press), Martin guides us into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of mental-health support groups, mood charts, psychiatric rounds, the pharmaceutical […]
Friday procrastination: link love – lists, libraries and lives
What Rebecca read this week.
Scoops, Packs, and Clubs
Donald Ritchie shares his National Press club speech.
The Last Word
This is, I’m sad to say, the final installment of “From A to Zimmer” on OUPblog. As of next week I’m departing Oxford University Press for a new position as executive producer of ‘Visual Thesaurus’. I’ve greatly enjoyed the platform afforded me by OUPblog, but I’ve always had a niggling concern.
How Dictionaries Ruined My Scrabble Game
Ammon Shea explains how dictionaries ruined his Scrabble game.
Replica – Podictionary Word of the Day
Charles Hodgson looks at the word “replica.”
Very Short Introductions: Global Catastrophe
Bill McGuire, author of Global Catastrophe: A Very Short Introduction, answers a few questions for OUPblog.