I break my American spelling rule for our lovely Pamela Robinson, Cambridge Canada Rep Quite a few years ago, when I was young, slim, and could easily lift boxes, I worked for the Classics Bookshop chain,...
Great-great granddaughter of Charles Darwin Ruth Padel has been named Professor of Poetry at Oxford. She is the first woman to hold the post in its 301-year history. UPDATE: It seems that she has stepped...
A controversial giant statue of a White Horse by sculptor Max Wallinger is soon to be erected at the Ebbsfleet station in southern England, the UK’s new gateway to continental Europe for Eurostar high-speed...
A Movement at the Crossroads Writing for Open Democracy, The Far Enemy author Fawaz Gerges outlines public opinion polls from Muslim communities around the world to show how popular sentiment has shifted...
America Reads applies the Page 99 Test to Christopher Magra’s The Fisherman’s Cause, an exploration of the relationship between commercial fishing and the American Revolution. Read More ?
Metapsychology Online Reviews just posted an interesting review of Boonin’s The Problem of Punishment. Read More ?
Janet Afary’s latest article in The Guardian finds an intriguing trend that adds another dimension to her suspicion that a “sexual revolution” may be on the way for Iran. Hymenoplasty,...
From Han China to the Industrial Era Pita Kelekna In the fourth millennium BC, yoke harnessing was originally designed for paired bovid draft. Also known as throat-and-girth, this mode of harnessing was...
An editorial in the New York Times today calls for the Obama administration to “[move] toward some accountability for the Bush administration lawyers who justified torture.” The lawyers, it...
Alex Beguin, Cambridge Southeastern Rep In the past month, I have been working more at home in preparation for next season’s catalog. This has enabled me to really notice even more what events are happening...
Law’s Allure author and court expert Gordon Silverstein‘s article about Justice Souter is now available for the reading in The New Republic. The Supreme Court will lose its only true conservative...
The ninth post in the series The Horse in Human History Gaucho from Argentina, 1868 (Wikipedia) The story of the Spanish conquest of the Americas is well known. In a hemisphere where the horse had been...