Monthly Archive: April, 2009

April 21, 2009

Leonard Cassuto, English Professor, on John Madden, Football Announcer

In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Leonard Cassuto, the author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, argues that recently retired football announcer John Madden “made us smarter.” Admittedly, Cassuto’s book has nothing to do with football but...

April 21, 2009

"Obama Was Right to Release Torture Memos." — Jameel Jaffer

Yesterday, we featured Jameel Jaffer’s interview with Glenn Greenwald on Salon and today we point your attention to Jaffer’s post on the Free Speech Blog. Jameel Jaffer, who is the co-editor with Amrit Singh of Administration of Torture: A Documentary...

April 20, 2009

Jameel Jaffer Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Salon

“Simply political documents that were meant to provide window dressing for war crimes.”—Jameel Jaffer on the recently released CIA memos. Jameel Jaffer, co-editor with Amrit Singh of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond,...

April 17, 2009

More from William Logan

Earlier this month, we published excerpts from William Logan’s Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue. Readers of Logan’s criticism, which appears in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, can attest to the fact that...

April 17, 2009

Jeffrey Perry — A DIY Scholar

The Princeton Alumni Weekly recently ran a great article on Do-it-yourself scholars. Among the scholars portrayed in the article is Jeffrey Perry author of the acclaimed and recently published biography Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry’s new...

April 16, 2009

Cultographies

Over the past few weeks we’ve highlighted some of the titles from the Cultographies series, including Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Bad Taste. For more on the series and cult films in general, there is a great Cultographies Web...

April 16, 2009

Paul Offit Weighs in on Healing Autism with Horses

Yesterday on the New York Times blog Well, several autism experts were asked to comment on the new book, The Horse Boy, which chronicles a father’s trip with his son to ride horses and visit shamans in an effort to...

April 15, 2009

New Biography of Fred Friendly

We have just published the first-ever biography of legendary television executive Fred Friendly. In his book, Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism, Ralph Engleman examines Friendly’s immense impact on television news as well as his...

April 14, 2009

Herve This on Love and Cooking

We have been featuring some of the scientific knowledge the Herve This brings to cooking and food, including some steps for the perfect hard-boiled egg. However, at the center of “building a meal” is the far less quantitative concept of...

April 14, 2009

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009

Columbia University Press mourns the loss of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, one of the pioneers of gay and lesbian studies and queer studies. She died in New York following a long battle with breast cancer. We were fortunate enough to publish...

April 13, 2009

Interview with Ted Striphas at Conversational Reading

Conversational Reading has posted a fascinating interview with Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumption to Control. In the interview Striphas discusses several interesting issues from the book including, the book as an...

April 10, 2009

"Pirates are Winning" — Martin N. Murphy

With the recent hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, it is no surprise that Martin N. Murphy, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in Washington D.C. and author of Small Boats, Weak...