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We delve Into The Intro of author James Shapiro's chapter Toward A New Shakespeare Biography from Shakespeare Survey 58 (2005), to examine the challenges of writing the Bard's biography.
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As Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the big-screen role of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, you can learn more about the brilliant, complex, tragic computing genius that is Turing in this excerpt from his mother's classic biography.
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In this week's excerpt, Vyvyan Evans questions the very foundation of studying language in The Language Myth, arguing that language is not the instinct from birth we've previously thought it to be.
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Explore the paradox of the unexpected hanging in this exclusive excerpt from Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens, a new collection of Martin Gardner's writing on classic puzzles and games.
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In this excerpt from Dirty Entanglements, Louise Shelley explains how the complex interweaving of crime, terrorism, and corruption has set the stage for one of the most complicated moments in international politics.
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This book reconsiders the views of Leo Strauss on the relationship between philosophy, law and political violence—the aspect of Strauss’s philosophical scholarship that has been most publicly controversial, and where his intentions have been most vehemently disputed. Around the time of the Iraq War, a bevy of books and articles appeared claiming Strauss and his […]
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Recent years have seen the political prominence of Mormons taken to a new level – including the presidential candidacy of Republican Mitt Romney, the prominent involvement of Mormons in the campaign for California's Proposition 8, and the ascendancy of Democrat Harry Reid to the position of Senate Majority Leader. In this excerpt from Seeking the Promised Land, three scholars consider the legacy and future of Mormons in American politics.
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World War I had a decisive cultural impact around the globe. Part of its legacy is preserved in post-war literature: this excerpt from The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War reveals how the Great War shaped a new class of writers and their work.
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