Democracy depends on honest, fair, accurate debate. Without it, we can't possibly meet today's challenges. And if academic presses don't hold the line -- when fair discourse in the wider culture is in collapse -- who will?

LONDON — A report that Oxford University had changed its comma rule left some punctuation obsessives alarmed, annoyed, and distraught. Passions ...

NEW YORK -- In addition to the decadent New Year's Eve parties, confabs with neoconservative pundits and dinner parties with Wall Street kingpins, the...

Following our spotlight of independent literary presses, here is a special feature devoted to the most exciting university presses in the country. ...

Save the Words, a new web site from Oxford University Press, seeks to prevent the extinction of words that are endangered due to the their lack of use.