New Book Tuesday! Newsmakers, Poetry Unbound and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available!

Newsmakers

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism

Francesco Marconi

Will the use of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it—or its savior? Francesco Marconi, who has led the development of the Associated Press and Wall Street Journal’s use of AI in journalism, offers a new perspective on the potential of these technologies.

Poetry Unbound

Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram

Mike Chasar

Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, he follows poetry’s travels off the page into new media formats.

Staging Personhood

Costuming in Early Qing Drama

Guojun Wang

Staging Personhood uncovers a hidden history of the Ming-Qing transition by exploring what it meant for the clothing of a deposed dynasty to survive onstage. Reading dramatic texts and performances against Qing sartorial regulations, Guojun Wang offers an interdisciplinary lens on the entanglements between Chinese drama and nascent Manchu rule.

New In Paper!

A New Foreign Policy

Beyond American Exceptionalism

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Jeffrey D. Sachs presents timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth and shift from war making to peacemaking. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the concrete steps the United States must take to build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.