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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...
What Is Intelligence? author and “Flynn-Effect” namesake James Flynn figured in a New York Times article about the possibility of training certain kinds of intelligence. Meaning, learning what...
Got lunch plans tomorrow? We do! At 12:30, Friday, March 20, we’ll be hanging out under the Washington Square Park arch with some extra ARCs (Advance Reading Copies) of The Letters of Samuel Beckett:...
In today’s LA Times review of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Tim Rutten hits on Beckett’s biting humor: “One of his last acts before abandoning what promised to be a dazzling academic...
Why I don’t use GPS Mary Beth Barilla – Northeast Sales Rep I haven’t polled my fellow sales reps, Cambridge or otherwise, to find out who uses GPS, but I’m guessing at least some of them...
How the virtually extinct wild horse of the steppes is making a comeback Before we trace the role of the domesticated horse (Equus caballus) from antiquity into the modern era, let us pause briefly to...
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