Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Madwomen: The “Locas mujeres” Poems of Gabriela Mistral is
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On May 9, 1961 Newton N. Minow addressed the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC. President John F. Kennedy had recently appointed Minow to
First off, warmest congratulations to Philip Gossett, whose lovely book Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera was recently awarded the press’s Laing Prize. Gossett’s book
Scott McLemee interviewed Neil Gross yesterday for his “Intellectual Affairs” column at Inside Higher Ed. Gross is the author of Richard Rorty: The Making of
In a recent review posted to the Bookslut website, Barbara J. King praises anthropologist Richard Price’s most recent book Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and
The war in Iraq is more than five years old and even though the end is not in sight, the lessons of the war are
In the current edition of the American Interest, reviewer James Rosen delivers a positive assessment of Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites’ recent book, No
Each of the major candidates vying to be the next President of the United States—Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain—has cited Reinhold Niebuhr’s political
According to Human Rights Watch, honor killings are acts of murder committed by men against female family members who are believed to have brought shame