To celebrate the publication of George Herbert: 100 Poems, we ask volume editor Helen Wilcox to pick her favourite George Herbert poems and explain why she chose them.
In the second in a four week series, author John MacAuslan, author of Schumann’s Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Fiction, enjoys the work of Adolf von Menzel. Last week, he examined how Schumann’s...
“Moore’s Law” was a prediction made by Gordon Moore in 1965, when he opined that computing power would grow at an ever-increasing rate. Something like “Moore’s Law” is taking place in computational...
The Flower This joyful poem is a celebration of God’s ‘returns’ – or rather, the speaker’s rediscovery of God’s presence after a period of spiritual barrenness. The tone is one of amazement...
Three Cambridge University Press authors and leading experts on Intelligence take on our virtual roundtable on 'Human Intelligence'. Week one of the six part series asks the question 'Can we define Intelligence?
To celebrate the publication of George Herbert: 100 Poems, we ask volume editor Helen Wilcox to pick her favourite George Herbert poems and explain why she chose them.
Allan C. Hutchinson, author of Is Killing People Right? (2016) explains why good judges are like good surfers.
Vertue This short poem is one of the most perfect lyrics in the English language. In pure and exquisitely simple phrases, it suggests the perfection of the created world – the new day, the bright rose,...
Ann-Marie Einhaus explores the question, "What IS the English short story?"
To celebrate the publication of George Herbert: 100 Poems, we ask volume editor Helen Wilcox to pick her favourite George Herbert poems and explain why she chose them.
Over the next four weeks, author John MacAuslan, author of Schumann’s Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Fiction, will explore why music is important. One after another, Schumann wrote great...
With all eyes on the Anti-Corruption Summit in London this week, Susan Rose-Ackerman and Bonnie J. Palifka, the authors of Corruption and Government, Second Edition, highlight the relevance of their work to two recent scandals: Petrobras and the Panama Papers.