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The votes are in—see winning photos from our summer contest! All of the submissions were phenomenal, so be sure to check out the slideshow below to see the gallery of photos.
Alison Thomson shares insights into our preparations for the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair, and insights from our stand C1, in Hall 8.
The letters in Volume 2 show a Hemingway very different from the one we see in his novels—a funny, irreverant writer carrying on casual conversations with his friends. His letters are peppered with 1920s slang and words he and his friends invented to talk to each other. Take our quiz and see how many you can figure out!
Sterilization as a public health policy did not end with Nazi Germany in World War II--rather it continued in North America well into the twentieth century. In this excerpt from Sterilized by the State by Randall Hansen and Desmond King, find out why.
Translating jokes is hard. In his second feature to mark our sponsorship of the Cambridge Greek Play 2013, Dr Oliver Thomas considers some of the ways of translating (and not translating) an ancient Greek play to keep it amusing.
Who were the victims of sterilization policies in the U.S.? Randall Hansen and Desmond King discuss three case studies, among the many they interviewed for their forthcoming book, Sterilized by the State.
Take a look into Sterilized by the State by Randall Hansen and Desmond King with the interactive slideshow below.
Most people view Hollywood politics today as a bastion of progressivism—for better or worse. Perhaps there is not much to learn from the current political scene in Hollywood other than celebrity and money matter—and Hollywood provides a lot of both. But Hollywood politics was not always so left-wing.
Hemingway lived a peripatetic life in Europe: first as a journalist for the Toronto Star, then as a full-time writer based in Paris. We trace the key locales that shaped him and his writing in Volume 2.
Shakespeare may be England's playwright, but his plays are a household name all over the world. In Shakespeare Beyond English, go behind the scenes of the Globe to Globe Festival where each of Shakespeare's plays was performed by a different international theatre company to explore what Shakespeare's plays mean when extended beyond the English language.
Theatre historian, Dr Eva Griffith, talks to us about her latest book 'A Jacobean Company and Its Playhouse' (2013).
..or so Prometheus claims in the ancient Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound. As the first of two features marking Cambridge University Press’ sponsorship of the Cambridge Greek Play 2013, Dr Oliver Thomas explores the enduring fascination of the figure of Prometheus.
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