On the Shelves in Oxford. The privacy of celebrities and the freedom of the press has been in the media a lot lately. Something we bet Robert Malthus didn’t have to worry about after publishing his widely known theories about change in population.
Marilyn Richtarik on ten reasons you should get to know Irish playwright Stewart Parker.
“To understand Superman’s beginnings we must, with the help of the American National Biography, fly all the way back to 1930. This was when cartoonist Joe Shuster first met writer Jerry Siegel, while they were both working on the Glenville High School newspaper.”
Hold on to the bulging blue bicep of Oxford University Press’s Deborah Sims in “An Oxford Companion to Superman” on the OUPblog, and don’t forget to enter our superpower essay contest.
Image credit: GIF via Man of Steel Tumblr.
OUP was at the North American Econometric Society Meeting in Los Angeles this past weekend. Anyone else thinking about tanned economic beach reads?
"The word pukka enjoys an unusual status in Britain both as a current slang term and a dusty relic of the Raj. As a London slang term, pukka means first-rate or excellent. The word rose to prominence over a decade ago, when it became one of the catchphrases of the TV chef, Jamie Oliver."
Thomas R. Dunlap, author of In the Field, Among the Feathered, discusses birders’ involvement in the environmental movement on the OUPblog. (via A day for birds, birds for a lifetime | OUPblog)
David L. Kirp explains why test score-driven education policy it isn’t making the grade. (via Cheating scandals and parent rebellions: High-stakes school testing is doomed. - Slate Magazine)
