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• Paperback of the week

  Aug 24 2008:

  Paperback of the week: Kenneth Tynan selected and edited by Dominic Shellard
  It has been said that Tynan was important because he wrote at such a crucial time for the stage says Susannah Clapp

• Media: Das Wikipedia - online resource goes into print

  Jul 22 2008:

  A published encyclopedia will list in a single volume the 50,000 most commonly searched terms on the German Wikipedia website over the past two years. By Jess Smee

• 'Infinite discovery and delight'

  Jul 14 2008:

  Jeremy Paxman: You may take up a dictionary to settle an argument, but you put it down, much, much later, with a sigh of pleasure

• Win a new edition of the Concise Oxford English dictionary

  Competition, Jul 11 2008: OED has teamed up with guardian.co.uk to give you the chance to win one of eight new editions of the Concise Oxford English dictionary

• The joy of text

  Jul 5 2008:

  Will Self and Lynne Truss on the horrors of text speak and the etiquette of texting

• 2b or not 2b?

  Jul 5 2008:

  Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spelling

• Look and learn

  Apr 12 2008:

  PD Smith investigates the intricate process of reading as seen through Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid

• What is Wales?

  Mar 29 2008:

  Simon Jenkins salutes the compendious The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales

• Please mind your language

  Feb 3 2008:

  The art of rhetoric gets a modern twist in Jay Heinrichs's Thank You For Arguing, says Peter Kimpton

• Bella Italia

  Dec 22 2007:

  From dumplings to balsamic vinegar, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food by Gillian Riley covers Italy from top to toe, says John Dickie

• Latin lessons

  Dec 8 2007:

  In Ad Infinitum, Nicholas Ostler proves a guide of fantastic erudition to a not-so-dead language. Charlotte Higgins enjoys the tour

• What it says on the tin

  Nov 10 2007:

  Ian Sansom follows Philip Dodd on a glorious swerve along the eponymic byways of the English language in The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium.

• Meet the shameless Adam Bovary

  Nov 4 2007:

  Adam Thirlwell takes far too many liberties as he tangles with Flaubert and co in this treatise on literary style and translation, Miss Herbert, says Adam Mars-Jones.

• Read the introduction to How To Read a Novel: A User's Guide by John Sutherland

  Aug 7 2007:

  John Sutherland's witty and provocative book about reading - and reading well - has just been published in paperback. In the new introduction to the paperback edition Professor Sutherland explains his motivations for writing the book and considers how to be well-read in the 21st century.

• Let there be light

  Apr 28 2007:

  Lives & letters: In the past, translators could be burned at the stake. Today, they are often neglected. Jennie Erdal explores the treacherous and miraculous art of reinterpreting a text in another language.

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