Daily Archive: January 21, 2016

The following is an interview with John Holmes, author ofnQ: There has been a lot written and said about Darwin this year, but Darwin’s Bards is the only book about Darwin and poetry. It is not an obvious conjunction—what is...

nnIn the following interview Carl Hobbs, author of The Beach Book: Science of the Shore, answers questions such as How many grains of sand are there on the beach? How will climate change affect beaches? Can beaches be “renourished”? and...

In The Ethical Soundscape, Charles Hirschkind explores how a popular Islamic media form—the cassette sermon—has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. nnQuestion: Islamic cassette media have been associated with Muslim fundamentalism and...

Question: “Postmemory” – what is it? The description of your book claims that we can inherit other people’s memories, how so?nnMarianne Hirsch: “Postmemory” describes the relationship that the “generation after” bears to the personal, collective, and cultural trauma of those...

The following is an interview with Ed Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of GrowthnnQuestion: Your book Smart Growth challenges the validity of long-held business beliefs that a business must “grow or die”...