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International Women’s Day: spotlight on women’s writing in the Romantic period

To celebrate International Women's Day from the 6th - 10th March 2017 we will be sharing brand new blog content from our authors which explore the themes of 'IWD 2017' and continue the discussion on feminism and women today and through the ages. In this blog post Devoney Looser, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period, explores the expansion of professional women writers during the Romantic period.

Devoney Looser | 8 Mar 2017

Writing about the Russian Revolution

Rex A. Wade, author of 'The Russian Revolution,1917' talks about his experience in researching the Russian Revolution.

Rex A. Wade | 8 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: Activism in Latin America

Mónica Szurmuk, Universidad de Buenos Aires, puts the recently published Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature in the context of the social protests around Latin America this Wednesday.

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Mónica Szurmuk | 7 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: spotlight on Alice Munro

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, Alice Munro is far from unknown in literary award circles. For example, in Canada she has received three Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and...

David Staines | 7 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: Verdi and Women

This book began life with a different title: ‘In tuono deciso’, or Verdi’s Heroines. The phrase ‘in tuono deciso’ (‘in a decided tone’) is a stage direction in the score of Verdi’s Alzira,...

Susan Rutherford | 7 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: The World’s Greatest Living Author is a Woman

To celebrate International Women's Day from the 6th - 10th March 2017 we will be sharing brand new blog content from our authors which explore the themes of 'IWD 2017' and continue the discussion on feminism and women today and through the ages. In this blog post Heidi Macpherson, author of The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood, discusses some of the themes explored in Atwood's work.

Heidi Macpherson | 6 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: spotlight on Caryl Churchill

For well over half a century, Caryl Churchill’s plays have been enriching the landscape of British theatre. As David Hare astutely observed on her seventieth birthday celebrations held at the Royal Court...

Elaine Aston | 6 Mar 2017

Trump-Politik: Rethinking American National Security

American-Russian relations are broken, and cannot be repaired until the US foreign policy community takes stock of post-2008 realities. The United States and Western Europe are no longer the poster children...

Steven Rosefielde | 1 Mar 2017

Countdown to the Academy Awards: Author of The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Shares His Thoughts on JACKIE

The author of The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy weighs in on the much buzzed about, Academy Award nominated film JACKIE.

Michael J. Hogan | 25 Feb 2017

Reading Comprehension and the Future of Textbooks

Reading comprehension is one of the most remarkable human skills. People speak at about 120 words per minute but read at 250 – 300 words per minute, which means that a person can acquire information...

Arnold Glass | 23 Feb 2017

Can Climate Change be Blamed for the Record Number of Refugee Deaths?

Timothy H. Dixon author of Curbing Catastrophe is a Professor of Geosciences at the University of South Florida. In his new article he considers how climate change and global warming are considerable factors in the record numbers of recent refugee deaths.

Timothy H. Dixon | 22 Feb 2017

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: A.I. Alexa

My daughters got me something very different for my birthday this year – my very own artificial intelligence: Amazon Echo, also know as “Alexa.” After seating her at the head of our dinner...

John Suler | 15 Feb 2017