Category: Author Interview

April 3, 2019

Q&A: Ben A. Minteer on The Fall of the Wild

“What to do—and not to do—about the biodiversity crisis that we ourselves are engineering? In The Fall of the Wild, Ben Minteer takes us through the options. His assessment of the situation is balanced, clear-sighted, and humane.” ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The...

March 25, 2019

Q&A: Sarah Tyson on Where Are the Women?: Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better

“In this bold book, Sarah Tyson revamps the feminist reclamation project to redress not merely exclusion, but all manners of exclusive inclusion. Whether you have never thought of, are inclined not to think of, or are enthusiastic about the thought...

March 11, 2019

Q&A: Nancy K. Miller on My Brilliant Friends

 “In this astute, passionate, rigorously honest book about her friendships with three extraordinary women, Miller delineates the mysterious geography of those attachments we are not born into, but choose freely. The longing, pain, confusion, envy, and joy that inhabit the...

January 29, 2019

Q&A: Catherine Davies on Transatlantic Speculations

“This creative global history of the financial panics of 1873 is now surely the leading study of its subject. In tracing not only transnational capital flows, but also the meanings and interpretive frameworks employed to make sense of them, Davies...

January 9, 2019

Q&A: Shani Orgad on Heading Home

“This book tells a story about sacrificing career for family that resonates far beyond the lives of the women in London Shani Orgad has interviewed. Orgad makes a powerful argument about the denials women experience, precisely because the author does...

December 11, 2018

Q&A: Patrick Corrigan on The Stigma Effect

“How do we, as a society, reduce stigmatization of the seriously mentally ill? As Patrick Corrigan persuasively argues in this thorough inquiry into the subject, we should listen to their stories, for then we will discover fellow human beings, and...

December 4, 2018

Q&A: Stephen Gillers on the Constitutional Protection of the Free Press

“Journalism Under Fire issues an extraordinarily timely five-alarm warning. It is a forceful response to those who today—and in the future—would demean and disparage the essential importance of a free press to American democracy.” ~Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation...

November 27, 2018

Q&A: Robert J. Durán on The Gang Paradox

“The Gang Paradox tells a story about the Mexican American experience on the border, including gangs and institutional reactions to them. In clear, descriptive, and refreshingly reflexive language Durán argues that the reality of gangs is far from its media image,...

November 5, 2018

Can a Candidate’s Charisma Influence Voters in the Midterms?

Philadelphia’s KYW Newsradio interviewed Vincent Lloyd, author of In Defense of Charisma about charisma and the midterm elections. Hear what he had to say in the podcast below.

October 30, 2018

Q&A: Philippe Met on The Cinema of Louis Malle

Louis Malle was the pioneer of the French New Wave and went on to an acclaimed transatlantic career. Today is his birthday and to learn more about this great film director, our Donovan N. Redd interviewed Philippe Met, editor of...

October 23, 2018

Q&A Looking Back: Ang Lee’s Early Roots

Today is Ang Lee’s birthday. To celebrate, we have a special Q&A with Whitney Crothers Dilley, author of The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen, 2nd edition.  Whitney Crothers Dilley’s 2015 book, The Cinema of Ang...

October 4, 2018

Q&A Michelle Pannor Silver on Retirement and its Discontents

“A convincing analysis of the disquiet among a small group of elders who—despite having money—want to work. Warning! A furtive tear may betray empathy for their deep feelings of abandonment, depression, being a renegade. Silver digs deep for courageous insights...