Oxford University Press

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism

 
By Danell Jones  January 25, 2024
Gossip

Epistolary Gossip: On the History and Morality of the “Poison Pen” Letter

By Emily Cockayne  January 8, 2024
Language

(Don’t) Watch Your Tongue: Why Swearing Is Fun

By Rebecca Roache  November 27, 2023
Humor

Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time

By Michael Wood  August 25, 2023
Literary Diplomats

How Ralph Ellison Brought the Complexity of the American Experience to Europe

By Harilaos Stecopoulos  August 21, 2023
Journalism

Veteran Reporter Margaret Sullivan’s Favorite Books About Journalism

By Margaret Sullivan  October 21, 2022
Libraries

American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

By Ilan Stavans  February 16, 2022
The Hub

Oh no: the children’s word of the year is … “anxiety.”

By Walker Caplan  January 18, 2022
Anger

On Channeling the Rage of Audre Lorde to Combat Racial Injustice

By Myisha Cherry  October 28, 2021
Reading Lists

Understanding Mexico’s Complex, Enthralling History:
A Reading List

By Edward Shawcross  October 20, 2021
Fascism

Ezra Pound’s Unrepentant Ties With Fascist Italy

By Lauren Arrington  September 27, 2021
Language

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

By Arika Okrent  July 23, 2021
Jewish Literature

What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?

By Ilan Stavans  July 9, 2021
Philosophy

What Stoic Philosophers Can Teach Us About Grief

By Nancy Sherman  May 17, 2021
Camping

The Alluring, Barrier-Ridden Promise of the Great Outdoors

By Phoebe S.K. Young  May 7, 2021
Language

When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up

By Ralph Keyes  March 15, 2021
Literary History

When Philip Roth Switched Publishers, Drama Ensued

By Ira Nadel  March 10, 2021
Civil Rights

On the Courage of the Earliest Civil Rights Bus Protesters

By Thomas C. Holt  February 4, 2021
Soviet Union

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

By Julius Margolin  October 13, 2020
Material History

What Exactly Do We Mean By a Book?

By James Raven  October 1, 2020
Language

Are New Yorkers Really as Rude as Everyone Thinks They Are?

By E.J. White  September 10, 2020
Jazz

Louis Armstrong’s Rapturous First Tour Through the American South

By Ricky Riccardi  September 3, 2020
Linguistics

Some of the Earliest Written Dialogues Were in Middle English Literature

By David Crystal  July 28, 2020
American Presidents

On Thomas Jefferson and the Little-Known Presence of Enslaved Muslims in the US

By Jeffrey Einboden  July 15, 2020
Mathematics

Why Do Some Mathematicians Think They’re Poets?

By Susan D’Agostino  July 1, 2020
Film

Hollywood’s Unlikely Evolution from The Birth of a Nation to Wokeness

By Greg Garrett  June 1, 2020
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