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...
Happy April 1st! Kudos to the vaulted halls of higher learning – good to see you’ve still got a sense of humor. Read More ?
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...
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...
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...
The Economist calls Jihad in Saudi Arabia a “rare combination of sympathetic nuance and critical rigour.” The book is out next month; the review is online now. Read it here: Saudi Arabia: The...
With tax season and budget cuts raining down on us, Jeffrey M. Stonecash takes a closer look at how New York state ended up drowning in debt in an op-ed for this weekend’s New York Times. ——– The...
By Stacey Kahn As the marketing associate for life science and engineering titles, I work on a vast array of subjects. From Quirks of Human Anatomy to Compression for Multimedia to A Designer’s Guide...
Best auto-responder I’ve ever received. NB: ESTEEMED CORRESPONDENTS As an indentured bondsman, I am forced away from work yet again, this time in a use-it-or-lose-it situation. I’ll be away...
Lead character Kogito Choko in The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe “read too many Cambridge University Press research monographs about everyone from Blake to Dante.” Read More ?
A few weeks ago, Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, wrote a (rather negative) book review of Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and...
Point of trivia: Lunokhod means moon walker in Russian. The Lunokhod 2 was a Russian Rover that landed on the moon in 1973, and to this day holds the record for the longest distance of surface travel on...