Monthly Archive: September, 2013

September 17, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Afrasian Imagination and an Award-Winner Now in Paper

Our weekly listing of new titles now available: Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination Gaurav Desai The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture (Now available in paper) Nerina Rustomji

September 13, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. Do words matter?...

September 13, 2013

Julia Lovell on Zhu Wen

We conclude our week-long feature on The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China,with an excerpt from Julia Lovell’s Translator’s Preface to Zhu Wen’s earlier collection of short stories, I Love Dollars. Don’t forget to enter...

September 12, 2013

Interview with Writer and Filmmaker Zhu Wen

In keeping with our featured book this week, Zhu Wen’s The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan, we cover today a 2011 interview of Zhu Wen, conducted by the Wang Ge of Timeout Beijing. In the interview, Wang discusses...

September 12, 2013

Hollywood and Hitler Reviewed in The New Yorker

The debate continues. Writing for The New Yorker, David Denby weighs in on the competing interpretations of Hollywood’s complicity with Nazism advanced in two new books: Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, by Thomas Doherty and The Collaboration Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler,...

September 11, 2013

An Interview with Translator Julia Lovell

Read part of an interview with Julia Lovell, translator of Zhu Wen’s The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

September 11, 2013

Kerry Malawista — Tales from Both Sides of the Couch

A conventional view of psychoanalysis features the therapist listening intently to the patient. But what if the therapist suddenly dominates the conversation? This is what happened to Kerry Malawista, coauthor of Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories: Learning...

September 10, 2013

Excerpt: "The Apprentice," by Zhu Wen

Read “The Apprentice,” an excerpt from Zhu Wen’s THE MATCHMAKER, THE APPRENTICE, AND THE FOOTBALL FAN.

September 10, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Counterinsurgency in Crisis and Contemporary Japanese Politics

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Counterinsurgency in Crisis: Britain and the Challenges of Modern Warfare David H. Ucko and Robert Egnell Contemporary Japanese Politics: Institutional Changes and Power Shifts Tomohito Shinoda

September 6, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. As designers show...

September 6, 2013

Bridges Too Far? Peter Rabins on What Causality Can Tell Us About Bridge Collapses

“A correct causal analysis is much more than assigning blame. It provides guidance for preventing future failures and can drive the accumulation of new knowledge.”—Peter Rabins We conclude our week-long feature on Peter Rabins’s The Why of Things: Causality in...

September 5, 2013

Peter Rabins: "Widespread Power Failures: Programmatic and Emergent Causality"

This week our featured book is The Why of Things: Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life, by Peter Rabins. This is the fifth article in a series of six articles by Peter Rabins. And, don’t forget to enter our book...