Category: Author Interview

June 30, 2020

Q&A: Idan Landau and Noam Chomsky on Mysterianism and Free Will

“Noam Chomsky is arguably the most influential thinker of our time, having made seminal contributions to linguistics and philosophy, as well as political and social thought. In one succinct and powerfully argued volume, he presents a synthesis of his key...

June 29, 2020

Q&A: Idan Landau and Noam Chomsky on Mind and Matter

“Chomsky’s writings invariably reflect the force of intellect and cogency of thought that befits one of the greatest thinkers of our times—this work is no exception.” ~Robert May, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy & Linguistics, University of California, Davis Noam Chomsky,...

June 21, 2020

Q&A: Thomas Borstelmann on the American Struggle to Understanding Foreigners

“This is one of those books that sticks with you. Borstelmann asks a big question—about U.S. attitudes toward foreigners—and has an important argument to make. What is more, Just Like Us sparkles with telling details and unexpected connections. It is, plainly put,...

June 20, 2020

Q&A: Victor McFarland on the History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance

“The extraordinary relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has influenced both countries, often for the worse. There is no better guide to the origins of this complex alliance than Victor McFarland’s new book. Anyone with an interest in...

May 21, 2020

Q&A: Anne Mendelson on Food and the Chinese American Journey

“Chow Chop Suey is an eye-opener, a book that will give everyone a deep appreciation of the exquisite skill required to produce authentic Chinese food and the sweep of history that brought Chinese cooking to America.” ~Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition,...

May 19, 2020

Shennette Garrett-Scott Featured on ABWH-TV

“Garrett-Scott reclaims the stories of black women who—as bank founders and clerks, investors, aspiring home owners, loan seekers, and, yes, as those denied loans—asserted their own economic ethos. A compelling account of black women’s ideas about money, savings, lending, obligation,...

May 19, 2020

Q&A: Margaret M. Chin on the New York City Garment Industry

“Sewing Women provides a new and illuminating perspective on New York’s garment industry and the dynamics of work among today’s immigrants through a carefully argued and insightful comparison of Chinese- and Korean-owned garment shops and their Chinese and Hispanic workers.”...

May 14, 2020

Q&A: Robert Goodspeed on Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions

COVID-19 has introduced countless uncertainties into our lives. To prepare for the future, organizations ranging from hospitals to school districts to transit agencies, are using scenario planning, a framework for creating and analyzing multiple plausible versions of the future. In this interview with scenario planning expert Robert Goodspeed, he...

May 13, 2020

Q&A: Raya Morag on the Connection Between Post-Holocaust Studies and Cambodian Perpetrator Cinema

“The book offers front-row seats to a new genre of post-Holocaust global documentary film, with innovative approaches to the study of genocide, trauma, and gender.” ~Ben Kiernan, author of The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia Under...

April 5, 2020

Q&A: Kaeten Mistry on Whistleblowing Nation

In Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy, editors Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman detail the long American tradition of persecuting those who expose state misdeeds. The twenty-first century witnessed a new age...

April 3, 2020

Q&A: Claudia Breger on Making Worlds, and What Films to Watch While Social Distancing

“Claudia Breger’s Making Worlds is a vital contribution to the political dimensions of contemporary film and media theory. Breger’s meticulous readings of contemporary cinema create generative openings in impasses that have petrified debate over the past three decades, developing models of cinematic...

April 2, 2020

Q&A: Paige Glotzer on How the Suburbs Were Segregated

“Paige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful...