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April 21: Happy Birthday, Rome!

Cristina Mazzoni, author of the very cool, very new, She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, bids happy birthday to Rome – and explains how the she-wolf became a potent symbol over the course of the past...

Cristina Mazzoni | 20 Apr 2010

Volcano expert Rosaly Lopes explains the Iceland eruption

So, you want to go see the Iceland volcano? If planes were flying to Iceland right now, would you go and see the eruption up close? Is it dangerous? How close can you actually get to an erupting volcano? The...

Rosaly Lopes | 16 Apr 2010

Bowery Poetry Club & Cafe Book Launch for the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York!

The idea of New York looms large over the landscape of American literature – a towering metropolis, a symbol of transience and mobility, of culture, of urbanism, and of change.  From Harlem to the...

10 Apr 2010

Earth Hour Lacks Power

Bjorn Lomborg, author of the internationally acclaimed The Skeptical Environmentalist, talks about stumbling in the dark during EARTH HOUR. In March, nearly a billion people participated – switching...

Bjørn Lomborg | 8 Apr 2010

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6 Apr 2010

In Which, Emphatically And Forever, I Decline To Care How Books Smell

My. Books. Do. Not. Smell. Like. Anything. Read More ?

6 Apr 2010

Reconciling Science, Religion, and Awards Season

Evolution, global warming, human cloning, abortion rights. The cultural and political debates playing out on today’s world stage invoke frenetically partisan passions, and yet they are symptomatic of...

Michael Ruse | 6 Apr 2010

Meet the Friendly Faces of the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York!

On the eve of the publication of Cambridge’s latest addition to our Companion series – The CC to the Literature of New York – Editors Cyrus Patell and Bryan Waterman have started featuring profiles...

1 Apr 2010

The “S” is Out!

Happy April 1st!  Kudos to the vaulted halls of higher learning – good to see you’ve still got a sense of humor. Read More ?

1 Apr 2010

Rethinking the History of Early American Law: Kathryn Preyer’s "Blackstone in America"

Boston, MA: Thursday, April 15 (6:00 p.m. Reception. 6:30 p.m. Event.): Mary Sarah Bilder, co-editor of Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer — reviewed here — will be speaking...

31 Mar 2010

Chronicle of Higher Ed Comments on Commentary

Norman Podhoretz: A Biography already getting attention in The Chronicle of Higher Ed: Author Thomas L. Jeffers “briskly moves the narrative from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, where Podhoretz...

30 Mar 2010

Calling Columbia’s Bluff

Calling Columbia’s bluff: Cambridge author Stephen Norwood responds to President Lee Bollinger’s article representing the university as a champion of free speech and press. Not so fast. Exhibits...

30 Mar 2010