Is this awesome or what? The long-awaited trailer for The Anthology of Rap, edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, is finally here. By bringing together more than three hundred lyrics written over thirty years, from the “old school” to the “golden age” to the present day, the book doubles
Perhaps the most famous imperial garden in the Western imagination is that of the thirteenth-century Mongol emperor and founder of the Chinese Yuan dynasty, Khubilai Khan. Immortalized by the vivid and haunting poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in “Kubla Khan,” Khan’s garden is an elaborate synthesis of natural and manmade
Dr. Richard Frank— The most precious things in life is life itself, good health and the happiness and well-being of our loved ones. When a person is diagnosed with cancer, these important things become jeopardized. Life itself may be shortened by the cancer or at least have the potential to be. A
Saleem Ali, author of Treasures of the Earth, appeared today on WBUR/NPR’s Here and Now to talk about his timely book, now available in paper. You can listen Here and Now.
Wikipedia’s homepage article today is “The Liberty Bell” and anyone judiciously checking sources and citations will be unable to escape Gary Nash’s The Liberty Bell. Tonight, Nash will give a lecture at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, with books available for sale, co-sponsored by The Library Company of Philadelphia.
In a piece from the Chronicle of Higher Education, Frank Donoghue writes about the decline in humanities majors, a decline which is also paired with an increase in for-profit and two-year colleges. He concludes that while humanities may lose their footing in the world of college and university, their place
“The intelligent painters,” Salvador Dalí proclaimed in 1964, “are those who will be able to integrate into classicism even the wildest experiments, the most disordered and chaotic of our time…My ambition is to incorporate, to sublimate my experiments into the great classical tradition.” Although most celebrated for his abstract and
Anis Shivani has put together another feature on small presses for the Huffington Post; this time, he highlights the work of university presses and their contributions to the publishing scene, including noteworthy recent and upcoming projects from Yale University Press. The previous feature is here.
Today marks the 100th birthday of Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect whose work both reflected and defined a post-World War II American national aesthetic. Saarinen, who passed away in 1961, was born on August 20, 1910 in Kirkkonummi, Finland, a few miles southwest of Helsinki. Saarinen’s father, Eliel, was a
On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was officially ratified, bringing fruition to the women’s suffrage movement and acting as a platform for modern day feminism. Since that time, commonly known as feminism’s first wave, women’s rights movements have progressed. During the early 1900s, suffrage was a primary concern of