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A Gay Liberationist Looks at Gay Marriage

Shannon Gilreath responds to the recent passage of marriage equality in New York. Read More ?

Shannon Gilreath | 5 Jul 2011

An Interview with the General Editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway

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;...

1 Jul 2011

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf Launch Celebration

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...

30 Jun 2011

Edward Barbier for TripleCrisis

Author Edward B. Barbier explores the connection between worldwide debt and global warming.

Edward B. Barbier | 27 Jun 2011

Deconstructing the Conscious Universe

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,...

27 Jun 2011

Genocide and the Europeans

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...

Karen E. Smith | 24 Jun 2011

The Early History of AIDS: Lessons in Prudence and Humility

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,...

Jacques Pépin | 21 Jun 2011

Irish Writers Trivia: Swift, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett

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...

15 Jun 2011

Introducing The Cambridge Book Club

The Cambridge Book Club brings you the latest ideas at the forefront of intellectual debate. Each month, a new selection is chosen for its original insight and inquiry into issues at the heart of the arts,...

14 Jun 2011

Laughing at Shakespeare

At gift-giving times of year, Shakespeare professors are mildly cursed by the pop-culture avatars of our scholarly interest.  It is not so much the movies and books that cause problems for us; it’s...

Adam Zucker | 31 May 2011

Gladiator of the Week, Week I

Welcome to “Gladiator of the Week.” The blog expands on the information in my book, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games (Cambridge, 2011) by exploring some of...

Garrett G. Fagan | 9 May 2011

Robert Crosnoe on Fitting in, Standing Out

Watch author Robert Crosnoe discuss his research into the effects of high school bullying and his book, Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education. Read More ?

14 Apr 2011