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Henry James and the Promise of Fiction

Henry James has long been recognized as one of the most important theorists of the novel. His extensive reflections on fiction, together with his overriding concern with questions of ethics, explains...

Stuart Burrows | 23 Oct 2023

Reconstructing an ancestral African language, mother to 80 present-day languages in the central African Sahel

In this blog, I provide answers to a few basic questions that I imagine a reader, who is not an expert in historical African linguistics, might wish to ask the author. Why this topic, what’s so interesting...

Ekkehard Wolff | 19 Oct 2023

The Importance of Probability in Computing

A Q&A with Professor Mor Harchol-Balter, author of the new Cambridge textbookIntroduction to Probability in Computing In today’s blog post, we’re delighted to catch up with the author...

Mor Harchol-Balter | 19 Oct 2023

Rebuilding Intellectual Life After The First World War

Students and professors being fed with Commonwealth Fund donation in Innsbruck, June 1921. Hoover Institution Archives In late 1920 Vienna, an old café basement, recently used as a storeroom...

Tomás Irish | 17 Oct 2023

Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839 – 1403 CE

While Muslim traders from the Arabic world and Jewish traders in the Mediterranean have enjoyed a long-established reputation for business acumen, Buddhist traders maintain a rather obscure position in...

Yiwen Li | 16 Oct 2023

At the frontlines of crises: How responders resolve dilemmas in the face of chaos

Imagine a crash site. Emergency services rush to the scene of the incident and begin to help. Firefighters, paramedics and police officers are bound to face a number of dilemmas as they carry out their...

Jori P. Kalkman | 13 Oct 2023

Mobility and Identity-Making in the Early Modern Spanish World

On October 8, 1565, a carrack commanded by the young captain Juan de Salcedo and piloted by the Augustinian friar Andrés de Urdaneta entered the port of Acapulco in New Spain. It was the first time that...

Nino Vallen | 12 Oct 2023

Essential Electromyography

This book, based on the author’s 25 years of practising and teaching the specialty of clinical neurophysiology, is aimed at two groups of clinicians. First and foremost, at new trainees in clinical...

John A. Jarratt | 12 Oct 2023

Social media and mental health: moving beyond rhetoric to evidence

A recurring topic in recent discussions about public health in developed countries has been concern about the mental health of young people. There is evidence going back over a decade of increase in levels...

Allan House, Cathy Brennan | 12 Oct 2023

Ruins and the Experience of Time

Contemporary research into the biblical writings has been shaped by a number of influences and interpretive methods over the past century. But one of the most significant developments has been the birth...

Daniel Pioske | 11 Oct 2023

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s

The 1890s were not very far in the rearview mirror when Holbrook Jackson published The Eighteen-Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1913), the first of many early...

Kristin Mahoney, Dustin Friedman | 11 Oct 2023

The Paradox of Libel: From Shakespeare’s Age to Ours

London, 1592-93. Plague ravaged the city. Unemployment spiked. Angry apprentices took to the streets. To stem the spread of disease and unrest, the authorities shut down the theaters for over a year....

Joseph Mansky | 10 Oct 2023