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While we’re on birthdays… Saturday saw celebrations of Cambridge University’s 800th year. At the centerpiece of the celebrations – a very cool looking light show projected onto the Senate House. But isn’t the founding charter was from 1291? Yes, however, in 1209, communities of scholars were first established in Cambridge, then a former Roman trading […]
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Poe turns 200 today, and several Poe cities are throwing parties. This wasn’t necessarily the case back at the first 100-mark. I found an article from December 1908 decrying the lack of planned celebrations. New York Times, December 12, 1908, Saturday Section: REVIEW OF BOOKS, Page BR772 CORRESPONDENT Call attention to the fact that the […]
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From Lima, Darwin yearns for a roaring fire in merry old England, while looking forward to visiting the Galapagos Islands; chiefly for geological reasons. To William Darwin Fox [9–12 August] 1835 Lima July,1 1835 My dear Fox, I have lately received two of your letters, one dated June2 & the other November 1834. (—They reached […]
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Congratulations to Cambridge Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, winner of the World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ruymbeke will travel to Tehran to receive official gold prize coins in a ceremony with President Ahmedinejad himself. Van Ruymbeke’s study of medieval Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi examines this difficult poet’s […]
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When calling to request review copies of books, columnist Nat Hentoff always has kind words for Cambridge; something that’s lovely to hear from a writer of his stature. Among his favorite books of ours are Karen Greenberg and Joshua Dratel’s Torture Papers and Enemy Combatant Papers, our publication of the official memos and legal papers […]
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This article appeared in The Guardian yesterday. A few days before Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), spoke at the demonstration for Palestine earlier this month, my colleagues and I – the Israeli and Jewish studies staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) – put out a […]
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In case you were wondering how books are really produced, our digital marketing colleagues at Macmillan have produced a handy little documentary, From the Typewriter to the Bookstore. I hope that this clears up the confusion.
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Alan Wheatley of Reuters recently examined the research of Cambridge author Yasheng Huang in his analysis of capitalism in China. Huang’s research is especially interesting in that it turns conventional thinking about free markets in China on its head. Though many feel that China’s markets are liberalizing, Huang points to leaps and bounds in entrepreneurship […]
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