The singer Rihanna rocketed to the top of the pop charts this spring with her single, S&M, which pays homage to sex accompanied by whips, chains and the intentional infliction of pain. Having just...
I like to consider myself a methodically drifting reader—wandering book shops and libraries, almost aimlessly scanning book cover after book cover until I find something aesthetically pleasing enough...
Check out this interview with former IMF Fiscal Affairs Department director and Governments Versus Markets author Vito Tanzi on the IMF’s Public Financial Management Blog. Read More ?
It has come to my attention that not only am I a methodically drifting reader, but I am also a musically-inclined reader. You may be saying to yourself, “How does reading have anything to do with being...
Charles Dickens, born February 7th, 1812, was an English novelist many of us will recall reading at some point in our high school or college years, and his work continues to inspire generations of writers...
My third week as a publicity intern at Cambridge has wrapped and it’s sad to think that I’m almost halfway done with the intern program; let’s breeze over that detail for now. Read More ?
Clive Oppenheimer author of Eruptions that Shook the World (now inspiration for a major documentary Into the Inferno by Werner Herzog) and leading volcanologist invites you to spend a day with him and his team atop an active volcano.
Today, July 21st, would have been Hemingway’s 112th birthday. As Cambridge prepares to publish The Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1907 – 1922 (on sale September 20th), I’ve been thinking about what...
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...