Above: The Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford, England, as viewed from the southeast circa 1814 (about the same time the continuous daily series of temperature records commenced). Image credit: R.
Charles Hefling and Cynthia Shattuck, eds. Oxford University Press Nothing illustrates the evolution of Anglicanism more than the changing role of the Book of Common Prayer. For centuries the prayer ...
While F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is probably the most studied novel in modern American literature, Christopher A. Snyder’s “Gatsby’s Oxford” considers the book from an important, if ...
An Oxford book store is celebrating the success of The Good Place by selling the moral philosophy and ethics books referenced by Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper) in the series – and its efforts ...
GATSBY’S OXFORD: SCOTT, ZELDA, AND THE JAZZ AGE INVASION OF BRITAIN: 1904-1929 By Christopher A. Snyder Pegasus Books, $28.95, 368 pages Those who have read “The Great Gatsby” only once in the ...
Paula Saunders in conversation with Lee Durkee for “Starting from Here” 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, 662-236-2262; and in conversation with Ellen Ann Fentress, 5 ...
Warning! Spoilers ahead for My Oxford Year.My Oxford Year makes some significant deviations from the source material as an adaptation, from minor details to major elements affecting the very ...