This is a wonderful film of Bertrand Russell, interviewed aged around 87.

Russell lived so passionately, and was active in so many areas of intellectual and political life, that it is difficult to achieve a true picture of all he was and did. One can study his mathematical logic at university (his History and the essays [...]

Copy-Editing Corner observes that a core skill for a copyeditor is that she should be able to quickly grasp the total meaning of the piece being edited.
“If there is to be any editing beyond simple punctuation and grammar fixes,” the blog observes, “the copy editor has to grasp what is happening in the article.”
This is [...]

Making Sense of the Global, ed. Raúl Acosta, Sadaf Rizvi, and Ana Santos, is now going to press at Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP).
I have a lot of affection for this book, having been copyediting it on and off over the last four months. Its papers apply anthropological concepts and methods to the understanding of global [...]

Truly: to know a work it is only necessary to have a thorough knowledge of the index.
I remember a Wittgenstein lecturer at Leeds saying how life was transformed after the Philosophical Investigations was republished with an index (the third edition, 1967).
Why read the whole thing when you’ve got an index which includes entries like ‘beetle‘, [...]