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Reading Hemingway for the First Time: Part 1

A favorite of high school English classes, Hemingway is a figure many people encounter early on in their literary lives, and some fall in love right away. For others, the encounter is more turbulent –...

12 Oct 2011

Why Gays Should Not Serve in the United States Armed Forces: A Gay Liberationist Statement of Principle, Part II

If, by our example of how we have reclaimed our own very UN-Hetero values of self-love, self-esteem, and self-affirmation, we can inspire the Spiritually STILL-indentured Colonialized Minority Communities...

Shannon Gilreath | 11 Oct 2011

Why Gays Should Not Serve in the United States Armed Forces: A Gay Liberationist Statement of Principle, Part I

The question of whether Gays should be allowed to serve in the armed services—that is, the generally accepted question of whether Gays should be permitted to serve—is actually divisible into two questions....

Shannon Gilreath | 6 Oct 2011

Waiting for Godot: 60 Years of Covers

One of the most performed plays in the world, Waiting for Godot was the work that launched Samuel Beckett to international fame – a status that would grapple with for the rest of his life. Read More ?

3 Oct 2011

Making of Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Final Installment

In the first video for Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust, we watched co-author Rebecca Boehling as she sat down with Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, whose discovery of her mother’s wartime letters...

29 Sep 2011

Conversations with John Marburger: Constructing Reality

As Science Advisor to President George W. Bush and Director of Brookhaven National Lab, the late John Marburger continually received questions from teachers, journalists, political staffers, technicians,...

26 Sep 2011

On Duels and Duets

In this new video, we sat down with author John Locke to discuss Duels and Duets, which answers an age-old yet elusive question: why do men and women talk so differently? Read More ?

23 Sep 2011

The Music of Hemingway’s Youth

Hemingway witnessed an extraordinary number of historic events in his lifetime: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, to name only a few. Such watershed moments during the 20th century indelibly shaped his writing, and many of his classic works—such as A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises—would not be the same without them. In anticipation for the release of the first volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, we’ve compiled a playlist that captures the tumultuous times that Hemingway not only lived through, but also evoked in his writing.

20 Sep 2011

The Cambridge Book Club discusses Duels and Duets

Why do men and women talk so differently? Though this maddening question has persisted throughout the ages, we haven’t given up trying to find an answer—as evident in countless studies, surveys, books,...

15 Sep 2011

Hurricane Irene and 9/11: The Importance of Disaster Preparedness

Closure of airports, subways and theaters and mass evacuations in New York City – like those experienced during Hurricane Irene – have disturbing echoes of 9/11. But there is more connection...

Kent Roach | 14 Sep 2011

Five Questions for Wendy Goldman, Author of Inventing the Enemy

Wendy Goldman is the author of Inventing the Enemy (on sale September 27th), which uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behavior of ordinary people in five Moscow factories during Stalin’s...

8 Sep 2011

Dinner is Served, Hemingway Style

In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway chronicled his Parisian experiences and the many things it had to offer a writer hungry for life, not the least of which was the food itself. But, if you wanted a restaurant recommendation, or asked about his favorite childhood dish, what would Hemingway say?

30 Aug 2011