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To celebrate the launch of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, Cambridge University Press held a panel discussion on ‘Virginia Woolf in the 21st Century’, on 25th February 2011, at Senate House, London.
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Author Edward B. Barbier explores the connection between worldwide debt and global warming.
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What is the mind’s place in the universe? It’s a question that has provoked a flurry of responses, both on theist and atheist sides of the debate. As the famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan once wrote, “Humans are the stuff of the cosmos examining itself.”
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A recent article in The Economist (‘The Uses and Abuses of the G-Word’, 4 June 2011) reviews the tangled debates about the definition of ‘genocide’, and notes that ‘its use brings momentous political and legal consequences – and is therefore bound to be highly contested’. Well, yes and no. In western democracies, its use by […]
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June 1981 is the birthdate of AIDS. A short article in a medical journal described five cases of a rare form of pneumonia among previously healthy gay men from Los Angeles.Nobody could have imagined that, by 2011, thirty-two million individuals would have died of AIDS, while another thirty-three million were living with its HIV aetiological […]
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If you’re celebrating Bloomsday on June 16th, you probably already know that it commemorates the events in James Joyce’s Ulysses, which all took place on June 16th, 1904. But did you know that the character of Leopold Bloom was based on Joyce’s friendship with author Aron Ettore Schmitz? Or that both Mel Brooks and Pink […]
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The Cambridge Book Club brings you the latest ideas at the forefront of intellectual debate. Each month, a new selection is chosen for its original insight and inquiry into issues at the heart of the arts, history, literature, politics, and the sciences.
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At gift-giving times of year, Shakespeare professors are mildly cursed by the pop-culture avatars of our scholarly interest. It is not so much the movies and books that cause problems for us; it’s more the coffee mugs, the tote-bags, the Shakespeare action figures, and the “quote-a-day” calendars.
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