On OUPblog (the official blog of Oxford University Press), Ben Zimmer sings the praises of the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee.

Acclaimed mystery novelist Tony Hillerman passed away on Sunday. Here are some online remembrances.

Jacket Copy

Prairie Sun Rising

Native Intelligence

Art and Literature

Bill Brohaugh is the author of Everything You Know About English Is Wrong, and he has an enjoyable blog of the same name. He calls it "cantankerous commentary on what we speak and why we speak it."

Here are some wonderful blogs about getting kids interested in literature.

The Well-Read Child

ShelfTalker

Scrub-a-Dub Tub

Kid Lit Kit

Classical languages are alive and well... in the blogosphere.

Rogue Classicism

Thoughts on Antiquity

A Don's Life

LatinLanguage.us

On Word Face-Off you can look at different word-based analyses of the second presidential debate between McCain and Obama.