Who is not fascinated by knights in shining armor? Their images continue to attract us to dramatic films, to museum exhibits of elaborate armor and weaponry, or to the showmanship of staged jousts at “Renaissance...
In the second part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss what Beckett would have thought about the project and whether these letters bring us closer to the man himself.
“Peres has done more for the cause of peace in the Middle East than just about anybody alive” said President Obama in 2012 upon bestowing Shimon Peres the Medal of Freedom. And while the world mourns...
In the first part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss his experiences working on the series, his favourite letters and what we now know about Beckett that we didn't know before.
With six weeks remaining until the U.S. Presidential Election, the race is locked in a virtual deadlock. That fact, in and of itself, is pretty remarkable given that a woman is as likely to be the...
Mark Philip Bradley shares with us an interactive timeline detailing unforgettable events in the Human Rights movement.
In the run up to the fourth and final volume in The Letters of Samuel Beckett series publishing, we've got 4 e-cards you can share featuring famous Beckett quotes
In this book trailer editor George Craig reads some of Beckett's letters taken from the fourth and final volume in the series, 'The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966 - 1989'.
Cambridge author John Suler explores ‘trolls’ in his new book Psychology of the Digital Age.
Robert B. Scott, author of A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity, 2016 considers the personal and professional reasons for writing his book and the best aspects of solutions manuals, offering advice on solving problems and getting the best out of the many resources available for learning general relativity
Assembling The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein raised some interesting questions at the developmental stage about the type of coverage that students would find helpful. Frankenstein is a novel that...
Landscapes of the Anthropocene So it seems that the Anthropocene is really here and the Holocene is over. Humans have significantly altered the surface of the Earth. Geologists in the Working Group on...