Media-driven myths can crop up around the world, undaunted by borders of language barriers. In this guest post, W. Joseph Campbell explores why certain myths know no bounds. W. Joseph Campbell, author …
Read More >On July 12, The Book Club of California, a San Francisco-based society devoted to promoting an appreciation of the writing, design, and printing of fine books among collectors, scholars, and the public, …
Read More >Lynne Christy Anderson, author of Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens, shares the story behind a recipe for kou kou sabzi, a Persian dish with eggs, spinach, saffron, and garden …
Read More >For 65 million years, Tyrannosaurus rex lay petrified under the earth, until Barnum Brown—fossil collector, oil consultant, onetime spy, and world-famous paleontologist with immaculate style—uncovered them at Montana’s Hell Creek Formation in …
Read More >Running Fence, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s outdoor installation in Northern California, stood for just two weeks. Though many people traveled to the isolated farmlands of 1970s Sonoma and Marin Counties to view Running …
Read More >On PBS NewsHour yesterday, correspondent Spencer Michels interviewed General Editor Robert Hirst and Editors Harriet Elinor Smith and Benjamin Griffin of the Mark Twain Project, along with UC Press author and Twain …
Read More >Benjamin Griffin Mark Twain Project, Berkeley A spate of recent Web postings and articles have stated that in the Autobiography of Mark Twain (published by the Mark Twain Project and UC Press, …
Read More >On June 25, the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War, David and Janet Carle visited Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), on the 38th parallel. The Carles are following the 38th …
Read More >Media myths, as we know from W. Joseph Campbell’s guest posts and his book, Getting it Wrong, are embedded in American journalism. In this guest post, Campbell shows how setting the record …
Read More >Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie, co-editor of Ardipithecus kadabba and member of the team that discovered the hominid “Ardi”, is the leader of a team that has just announced another major discovery in human …
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