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How Oscar Wilde’s life imitates his art

October 16^th 2017

Pushed to extremes: the human cost of climate change

October 7^th 2017

Bastards and Game of Thrones

July 1^st 2017

10 of the best literary summers

June 29^th 2017

The tale of Madame d’Aulnoy

June 15^th 2017

10 times that Jane Austen was ahead of her time

May 27^th 2017

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The problem with overqualified research

February 8^th 2020

Five philosophers on the joys of walking

February 16^th 2020

Muddy waters

February 19^th 2020

Etymological insecticide

February 5^th 2020

An etymologist is not a lonely hunter

February 12^th 2020

How far can a flea jump?

January 29^th 2020

Gossip has a deep, lasting value in our lives

Andrew Hadfield, author of Edmund Spenser: A Life, writes in The Telegraph

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Bloody Caesar, n.

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Oxford ReferenceFact of the Day

In the study of linguistics what is a chiasmus?