Amidst reports of the ensuing “death of the novel,” former USA Today reporter Chuck Raasch forewarns of something even more ominous—the death of writing itself: If you are literate today, it does not ...
Please note: The regular schedule of the Personality Analyst will resume July 20th, 2009. This will be the last post until then. Before about 1000 BCE, almost everyone lived in primarily oral cultures ...
A volunteer staffs the Museum at Bethel Woods tent at ComFest in 2023. The Woodstock Oral History Initiative is back this year to collect more accounts from Woodstock attendees and stories of the ...
What can an O Bele folk song from the Tulu community in southern India tell us about how farmers would entertain themselves while planting crops? What can a Tharu folk song from Nepal illuminate about ...
Steve Jobs said “you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in ...
God’s Word has oral and textual dimensions, and we shouldn’t pit them against one another. Sometimes popularizers fail because they’re poor exponents of good ideas. This does not describe biblical ...
A new collection of Irish oral histories celebrating the history and culture of the Irish language in Boston is now available online. Editor’s note: Seachtain na Gaeilge, celebrated from March 1 - 17, ...
Click the arrow on the audio player to hear Lesley Wheeler read this poem. You can also download the recording or subscribe to Slate's Poetry Podcast on iTunes. In my ...