There’s a lovely essay by Joseph Epstein titled “In and Around Books,” which playfully parses the dedications, acknowledgments, and blurbs that have evolved into an expected part of publishing. To which I would add: ads!
A couple years ago, the New York Times launched its Paper Cuts blog with a fabulous collection of book ads from [...]
Friday, November 13, 2009
I love metaphor, and all its family members: synecdoche, metonymy, simile. Anything that talks about one thing in terms of something else. So today, I’d like to bring together a few sites that do the same thing!
The tag line for David McCandless’s blog Information Is Beautiful is “Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized!” And what [...]
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Our Humanities Matter! conference was a great success! I’ll be writing a program report soon, I’m sure, and I also hope to include reports from those of you who were there (any volunteers?). In the meantime, let’s turn our attention to the White House, just for fun!
The rhetoric of how the president presents himself is [...]
It strikes me that, while history tends to peer around the hoopskirts of my posts, I haven’t written anything about online resources that address history head on! So here we go:
Footnote.com is an online archive of digitized historical documents and images that, well… I’ll let them say it:
Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents [...]
This week, I thought I’d highlight a few online projects/resources that explore this great nation of ours, state by state.
The 50 States Project is an online photographic tour of the country, courtesy of 50 photographers, one in each state. From their website:
Each photographer lives in one of the 50 states and during the year long [...]
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So after I blogged about Capitol Words, I got curious. Surely Congress’s words aren’t the only ones being tracked!
Sure enough, twistori and Visible Tweets are keeping up-to the moment tabs on what people are twittering about. At Visible Tweets, you can plug in a word — or a phrase, your name, whatever — and any [...]
As someone who spends most of her time wading around in words, I’m always intrigued by creative visual representations of research. In word form, for instance, statistics can lose me pretty quickly. But I could look at the Telegraph’s selection of maps from The Atlas of the Real World for hours. Countries shrink or swell [...]
I was all set to post about something international and expansive, and I will, but today I found myself looking instead at the work of a few photographers whose work is very circumscribed: a town, a daughter, a life. And despite these seeming limitations, I found them to be just as expansive as anything else [...]
I found so much marvelous stuff on Russia last week, that it just had to spill over into another post! So, without further ado, here are two photographers who have documented Russia’s past in interesting ways.
Sergey Larenkov intermingles historical photographs of World War II’s Seige of Leningrad with contemporary photographs of the same locations. Bombed-out [...]
Today’s post is all about Russia. Why? Because I adore the blog English Russia, whose tag line is “Because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth’s surface.” And what’s not to love? The blog has a quirky sensibility. Awkward English. Images of long lines and emerging punk fashion in Soviet and post-Soviet days. [...]