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OBP - Annual Review - 2021

As we come to the end of this year, it is with great pride that we look back at the many exciting things that have happened here at OBP in 2021! From new open access titles, to awards, new series and exciting projects, this has been a remarkable year for us. Keep reading to find out more!

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Why does the slave win? Plautus's Epidicus on the Roman Stage

Read Dr Catherine Tracy's blog post on her latest Open Access title 'Epidicus by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation'.

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OBP Autumn Newsletter 2021

Welcome to our Autumn Newsletter! We have information on our new open position, updates from COPIM, OABN and ScholarLed, events, new and forthcoming publications, latest reviews and more...Keep reading to find out more!

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ἱστορία and the κόσμος

If you want to make the world a better place, if you care about justice and equality, if a life of curiosity and skepticism, lived with values, purpose, and reflection intrigues you, read on.

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A Sacred Task

Read William B. Bonvillian's reflections on the importance of publishing the research of his late brother John D. Bonvillian in Open Access.

Semitic Languages and Cultures

On 'A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic'

Read now Esther-Miriam Wagner's reflection on her latest book 'A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic'.

German Literature

A View From under The Horse’s Tail. New Perspectives on Literature?

Read now Roger Paulin's reflections on his latest title 'From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture'.

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The Middle is Marching: Adam Roberts, on reading George Eliot’s 'Middlemarch'

Adam Roberts, author of 'Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors', on reading George Eliot’s 'Middlemarch'

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Autism and Ethics: The Stories We Tell

Read Flora Kann Szpirglas' reflections on Kristien Hens' latest title 'Towards an Ethics of Autism: A Philosophical Exploration'.

Russian Literature

How To Read Russian Literature Backwards

Did you know that Voltaire plagiarized Conan Doyle? Or that Shakespeare nicked T.S. Eliot’s best ideas? Plagiarism by anticipation is both quaintly ludicrous and unexpectedly fecund, overturning familiar notions of literary adaptation (and anxiety of influence).

Life writing, family stories and ‘history from below’

December 2025 Newsletter

Small Apocalypses

A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib

Why does the slave win? Plautus's Epidicus on the Roman Stage

ἱστορία and the κόσμος

A Sacred Task

On 'A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic'

A View From under The Horse’s Tail. New Perspectives on Literature?

The Middle is Marching: Adam Roberts, on reading George Eliot’s 'Middlemarch'

Autism and Ethics: The Stories We Tell

How To Read Russian Literature Backwards