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Bob Dylan Joins DuBois and Franklin

The Times Higher Education Supplement reviews The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. Too restless, omnivorous and single-mindedly creative to sit in university classrooms, Dylan, as Shumway notes, has absorbed...

26 Jun 2009

Foreign Policy on Iran Reading

Foreign Policy posted its 8 Books Ahmadinejad Doesn’t Want You to Read yesterday, and coming in at #1: Janet Afary’s Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Keep track of some of Afary’s recent...

25 Jun 2009

Good Beer + Good Food. Please.

Charles Bamforth’s predictions are coming true; but in the opposite direction. Good restaurants are adding good beer. Beer bars aren’t exactly venturing towards good food. Eric Asimovin the...

24 Jun 2009

Beckett in the Washington Times

Martin Rubin reviews The Letters of Samuel Beckett in the Washington Times. Read More ?

23 Jun 2009

Interns Blog: Death Lurks in Crisp White Stacks

Christopher Zingaro The only certainty for summer interns is that paperwork and paper cuts await us. They lurk about every filing cabinet and alongside each fresh stack of paper from the printer. Beware. With...

23 Jun 2009

Bob Dylan, Capitalism and the Religious Right

No Faith in the Market – Part I Anne Ream One likes to believe that Bob Dylan was being ironic, not prophetic. But as is the case with most things Dylan, one is never sure. The year was 1967 and...

Anne Ream | 22 Jun 2009

Astronomy.com on Mullaney & Tirion

Gerald Mullaney and Wil Tirion just published the splendid Cambridge Double Star Atlas, and Astronomy.com posted their review today. And yes, the review is very nice. Thanks for the kind words, Michael! Read More ?

18 Jun 2009

Inside Higher Ed Reviews Norwood

Stephen Norwood’s The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower was reviewed yesterday at Inside Higher Ed: In an interview, Norwood describes university leaders as indifferent to evidence of a barbaric regime...

18 Jun 2009

Can tech bring the country doctor to the city?

Stephanie Harnett It may seem that the doctors of New York today are a far cry from the old-fashioned country doctors of mid-century Middle America. Or are they? The New York Times this week has pointed...

18 Jun 2009

Bjørn Lomborg: Stop Scaring the Kids!

Bjørn Lomborg, writing for the Guardian, warns of Global Warming exaggeration. An argument he’s been making for a while, yes, but here, he points to terrified children, convinced that the world...

Bjørn Lomborg | 17 Jun 2009

New White Nationalism

On The Huffington Post, Carol Swain shares an excerpt from her book, The New White Nationalism in America. Read More ?

17 Jun 2009

Interns Blog: The Job Search

I remember when, a bushy-tailed 25-year-old, I came to New York and began a job search. Well, back up a bit, I had been searching for a job in NY for 3 months prior to my move, with no success. Waiting...

17 Jun 2009