In celebration of its 30th volume, Cambridge Journal Popular Music invites everyone to download its ‘greatest hits’. Popular Music is an international multi-disciplinary journal covering all aspects...
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677), the notorious Jew of Amsterdam, has long been a darling of academics. Excommunicated from the Jewish community for his radical philosophical views, Spinoza devoted his...
For Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey, their book Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust probably would not have been possible without Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg. A colleague of Rebecca’s at University...
The King James Bible (KJB) has long held the ironic distinction of being the English translation of the Bible most associated with the monarchy and the established church—thus having a traditional, even...
Shannon Gilreath responds to the recent passage of marriage equality in New York. Read More ?
Professor Spanier is general editor of Cambridge’s forthcoming The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Vol 1 1907-1922 (to be published in October, 2011). This is the first complete and authorized compilation;...
To celebrate the launch of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, Cambridge University Press held a panel discussion on ‘Virginia Woolf in the 21st Century’, on 25th February...
Author Edward B. Barbier explores the connection between worldwide debt and global warming.
What is the mind’s place in the universe? It’s a question that has provoked a flurry of responses, both on theist and atheist sides of the debate. As the famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan once wrote,...
A recent article in The Economist (‘The Uses and Abuses of the G-Word’, 4 June 2011) reviews the tangled debates about the definition of ‘genocide’, and notes that ‘its use brings momentous political...
June 1981 is the birthdate of AIDS. A short article in a medical journal described five cases of a rare form of pneumonia among previously healthy gay men from Los Angeles.Nobody could have imagined that,...
If you’re celebrating Bloomsday on June 16th, you probably already know that it commemorates the events in James Joyce’s Ulysses, which all took place on June 16th, 1904. But did you know that the...