This week’s edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education reviews Robert K. Elder’s Last Words of the Executed—an oral history of American capital punishment, as
Humboldt who? That’s usually the reaction from modern readers when introduced to the father of geography, Alexander von Humboldt. He was admired by Darwin and
The subway blasts that killed dozens of people in central Moscow this morning, carried out by insurgents from southern Russia’s Caucasus region, have brought the
Last weekend’s New York Times magazine featured a fascinating article about the clash among property lines, public land, and the tides of the Gulf in
Most of the books in The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe—a series from the Press that explores the role of women in early modern
Bruce Smith, author of several books of poems including Songs for Two Voices, The Other Lover, and Mercy Seat, was recently awarded a 2010 Academy
Fans of Donald E. Westlake were saddened by his sudden death on New Year’s Eve of 2008. But luckily, the beloved author—who over the course
NPR’s Morning Edition recently aired an interesting piece that investigates the next big trend amongst evolutionary scientists to explore how climate change has effected human
On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine featured haunting photographs of the bedrooms young American soldiers killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The
The NYT‘s Paper Cuts blog has posted a link to Brainiac blogger Christopher Shea’s fashionable find of these purses, made from the covers of used
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