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Yes indeedy. Bob Dylan’s official website posted a free song from his new album. That web address is, oddly enough, www.bobdylan.com. While it downloads, check out our new Companion to Bob Dylan! Read More ?
How horse-borne incursions from the steppes invaded sedentary (agricultural) civilizations, and how horses figuratively shrank the world. Early horse intrusion into the ancient Near East occurred with...
It’s possible. The layout in question is The Master Plan. But first I should tool around to see if it suits my needs. What do you think? Can I fill all those boxes? In other news, if the site seems...
In 1872 Oakand, California, the Japanese Iwakura Embassy toured a winery. The embassy was established as one of Japan’s first formal contacts with the industrial west, and used to learn about new...
A Nine in the Sand Michael Baron Last week, my colleague Mary Beth Barilla wrote a lovely piece on the pleasures of getting lost – causing many of us to nod our heads in adamant and wistful agreement...
Writing for Harper’s Magazine, critic Wyatt Mason examines Samuel Beckett in translation, musing over several bits, including one of Beckett’s letters, translated from German and featured in...
In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, Cambridge author Peter Conn gives us a taste of his recent work, The American 1930s. The Opinion Journal’s weekly Top Five turned to Conn for true literary...
According to recent Cambridge University documents, Darwin loved his vegetables. So much so, that he paid more to his college dining hall to have them at meals. Luckily, fresh vegetables today are inexpensive–a...
The 3rd installment of The Horse in Human History blog series Scythian gold plaque Traditionally, history focuses upon centralized sedentary civilizations, such as those of Mesopotamia, tending to dismiss...
Robin Moroney’s March 12 review of The Letters of Samuel Beckett has a very cool wrap-up: “As enjoyable as it is to have such additions to the Beckett canon, it is disconcerting how haunted...
Well, happy for many of you, I’m sure. This is what I was greeted with this morning: Yup. That’s the snowy view from my window. Sorry if the image is a little blurry. I was being, um, interfered...
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