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  1. Reflective reflections on self-referentiality

    guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Nov 4, 2008

    Anthony McGowan: There's a strange and giddy joy to similes that compare things to themselves

    Also tagged: books, culture

  2. Review: The Idler's Glossary by Joshua Glen and Mark Kingwell

    guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Oct 31, 2008

    Review: The Idler's Glossary by Joshua Glen and Mark KingwellIt fulminates most entertainingly against labour and industrial amusement

    Also tagged: books, culture, roundup reviews

  3. Extract: Ammon Shea takes on the OED

    guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Oct 17, 2008

    Why read a dictionary? Because it's there. In this extract from Reading the Oxford English Dictionary, Ammon Shea begins on the first of 21,730 pages

    Also tagged: books, culture, original writing

  4. Review: Curiosities of Literature by John Sutherland

    guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Oct 10, 2008

    Food, guns, sex and money - such are the themes under which Prof Sutherland collects his comfortable miscellany of fascinating literary facts

    Also tagged: books, culture, roundup reviews

  5. David McKie on the charm and personality of reference books

    guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Sep 28, 2008

    David McKie Reference books may seem austere, but they can brim with charm and personality

    Also tagged: books

  6. Review: This Septic Isle by Mike Barfield

    guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Sep 26, 2008

    Review: This Septic Isle by Mike BarfieldBarfield has a weakness for awful puns, and is perhaps funniest when most off-topic

    Also tagged: books, culture, roundup reviews

  7. Urban Dictionary: The best place to watch language evolve

    guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Sep 26, 2008

    Adam O'Riordan: If you don't thumb me like really soon, I'll totally deface you. Watch words take their baby steps at Urban Dictionary

    Also tagged: books, culture

  8. Urban Dictionary: The best place to watch language evolve

    guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Sep 25, 2008

    If you don't thumb me like really soon, I'll totally deface you. Watch words take their baby steps at Urban Dictionary

    Also tagged: books, culture

  9. Paperback of the week: Kenneth Tynan selected and edited by Dominic Shellard

    guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Aug 23, 2008

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

    Also tagged: books, culture, observer

  10. Das Wikipedia - online resource goes into print

    guardian.co.uk » Technology | guardian.co.uk - Jul 23, 2008

    Sometimes a book spine just isn't long enough - especially when its list of authors runs to 90,000. Due to hit the shelves in September, a published encyclopedia of German Wikipedia entries, the first of its kind, will …

    Also tagged: technology, germany, world news, books, internet, media, wikipedia, culture, press and publishing, computing and the net

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