Monthly Archive: April, 2011

April 29, 2011

Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: Columbia University and Northern Manhattan

A recent article in The Record recounts how community groups led by Columbia University’s College of Dental Medicine, Alianza Dominicana, Inc. and Harlem Hospital Center helped 30,000 residents of Washington Heights, Inwood and Harlem get health insurance, immunized 8,000 children,...

April 28, 2011

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam on The Metahistory of the Clash of Civilizations

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, author of The Metahistory of the Clash of Civilizations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism recently gave a fascinating interview about his book at e-IR as well as offering commentary about the situation in Bahrain for CNN. In his...

April 27, 2011

Tulasi Srinivas on the Death of Shri Sathya Sai Baba

Over the weekend more than 2 million followers mourned the recent death of Guru Shri Sathya Sai Baba, one of the leading religious figures in India. The Takeaway interviewed Tulasi Srinivas, author of Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism...

April 26, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Nomadic Subjects Revised and The Death of Philosophy

The following books are now available: Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, Revised Edition Rosi Braidotti The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self-reference in Contemporary Thought Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel Mencius (Now available in paper) Mencius; Translated by...

April 25, 2011

The Legacy of Jacques Derrida — Peggy Kamuf's "To Follow"

“If Derrida’s legacy is to survive into the future, you’ve got to read this book”—Elissa Marder, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Peggy Kamuf has been one of the leading translators and readers of Jacques Derrida in English. Her most recent work,...

April 22, 2011

The Most Important Thing — A Good Money Move

In their annual list of new ideas about how to make the most of your money, the editors from Money Magazine suggested reading The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, by Howard Marks. Money writes, Warren Buffett...

April 21, 2011

Hillary Chute and Lynda Barry

Thanks to Lynda Barry for holding up Hillary Chute’s book, Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. The photo was taken shortly before Hillary Chute moderated a conversation on comics with Barry and Alison Bechdel at a recent event at...

April 21, 2011

Modern Chinese Drama

PRI’s The World recently reviewed The Columbia Anthology of Modern Drama, edited by Xiaomei Chen. The review praises the book, writing “the anthology’s excellent selection, colloquial and stage-friendly translations, and illuminating introduction undoubtedly make the volume the authoritative choice in...

April 20, 2011

Mark Goble's Beautiful Circuits

“Modernism as we knew it is not going to return. But the digital technologies that are the future also look a lot like history.”—Mark Goble The Townsend Humanities Lab recently featured Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life, by Mark...

April 19, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Anatheism

The following books are now available: Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Now available in paper) Richard Kearney A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (Now available in paper) Michael Berry

April 18, 2011

Interview with Sera Young on "Good Food"

Recently Sera Young was on KCRW’s Good Food to discuss her new book Craving Earth: Understanding Pica—the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk. In the interview she discusses among other the definition of pica (eating non-food items), the...

April 18, 2011

New York Times and Times Literary Supplement on David Foster Wallace

Yesterday’s front page of the New York Times Book Review included a review of his final novel The Pale King and his legendary undergraduate thesis now published as Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will. The Times Literary...