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November 8, 2011

David Brotherton and Luis Barrios Discuss "Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees & Their Stories of Exile"

David Brotherton and Luis Barrios authors of Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile were recently on the Brian Lehrer Showon what they learned having followed thousands of Dominicans deported following the 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform...

November 7, 2011

Jacques Ranciere: Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics

This week’s featured book is Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics, by Jacques Rancière, with an introduction by Gabriel Rockhill and translated by James Swenson. In the book, Rancière argues that our current notion of “literature” is a relatively...

November 7, 2011

Cindy Crawford Reads "Uncreative Writing," by Kenneth Goldsmith

We thought we’d share this photograph by Lawrence Schwartzwald of Cindy Crawford reading Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, by Kenneth Goldsmith:

November 4, 2011

Second Read: Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

We conclude our focus on Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage, edited by James Marcus, with some excerpts from Ted Conover’s essay on Stanley Booth’s reporting on the Rolling Stones during their 1969 tour, collected in...

November 4, 2011

James Powell: Is There a Case Against Human Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature?

On Skeptical Science: Getting Skeptical About Global Warming Skepticism, James Powell, author of The Inquisition of Climate Science, is beginning a study of the peer-reviewed articles that “take a negative or explicitly doubtful position on human-caused global warming”. Part of...

November 3, 2011

Interview with David Celani, author of Leaving Home: The Art of Separating From Your Difficult Family

The following is a Q&A with David Celani, author of Leaving Home: The Art of Separating From Your Difficult Family. (You can download this book, rent it, or purchase individual chapters via Columbia University Press Online Access) Question: Your book...

November 3, 2011

Second Read: Miles Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Story of a Shipwrecked Soldier"

In his essay for Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage, Miles Corwin discusses Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s career of a journalist and how it shaped his later work as a novelist. Marquez’s journalistic work The Story of...

November 2, 2011

Second Read: Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night

“The Armies of the Night remains one of the most enlivening, and most deeply American, testaments ever written.”—Tom Piazza We continue our focus on Second Read: Writers Look Back on Classic Works of Reportage with an excerpt from Tom Piazza’s...

November 2, 2011

Denis Lacorne: Secularists or Christian? The Religious Lives of American Political Candidates in the Public Sphere

“What is certain is that the primary season has reopened a three century old battle of narratives opposing Enlightenment secularists to Neo-Puritan and evangelical believers.”—Denis Lacorne In an essay for the Huffington Post, Denis Lacorne, author of Religion in America:...

November 1, 2011

Second Read: Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan

“Paul Cowan was a journalist who threw himself into situations that might just change his mind, and how many of us dare to do that?”—Rick Perlstein As the title suggests, Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage,...

November 1, 2011

Lunch with Donald Keene

The Financial Times recently published a delightful and fascinating article about Donald Keene. In the article, David Pilling, the Asia editor for the Financial Times, sits down for lunch with Keene at a French restaurant in Tokyo. The two discuss...

November 1, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Meditations, Memory, and More

Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice B. Alan Wallace History and Repetition Kojin Karatani; edited by Seiji M. Lippit Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory Edited by Marianne...