Category: Book of the Week

December 13, 2017

Wai Chee Dimock: Reading American literature outside the box

This week, our featured book is American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler, edited by Wai Chee Dimock, with Jordan Brower, Edgar Garcia, Kyle Hutzler, and Nicholas Rinehart. Today, we are happy to present...

December 7, 2017

Why I Work on Such a Frightening Topic

This week our featured book is Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist’s Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing by Lynn R. Sykes. Today, we are happy to present an excerpt from the book’s final chapter, in which Sykes explains why he chooses...

December 6, 2017

Ear to the Ground, Listening for Nuclear Blasts

This week, our featured book is Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist’s Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing, by Lynn R. Sykes. Today, we are happy to present a short excerpt from an interview that with Kevin Krajick at State of the...

October 22, 2017

Safwan Masri on the success of Tunisian democracy after the Arab Spring

Watch four videos from Safwan M. Masri’s recent talk at George Washington University in support of his new book, TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY.

October 20, 2017

Law and the Wealth of Nations

Read the introduction to LAW AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Tamara Lothian.

October 19, 2017

Tunisia and the Arab Spring

Listen to an interview with Safwan M. Masri, author of TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY!

October 18, 2017

A Different Trajectory

Read an excerpt from chapter 14 of TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY, by Safwan M. Masri, with a foreword by Lisa Anderson!

October 17, 2017

Introducing Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly

Read an introductory excerpt from TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY, by Safwan M. Masri, with a foreword by Lisa Anderson!

September 27, 2017

Read the Story “Pilfering Green Cloth by Pretending to Steal a Goose”

Read an excerpt from the BOOK OF SWINDLES, translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk

September 8, 2017

A Media Roundup for Making Sense of the Alt-Right

Track the many ongoing discussions of the Alt-Right with a media roundup for MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, by George Hawley.

September 7, 2017

The "Alt-Lite"

Read an excerpt from MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, by George Hawley, on the “fellow travelers” of the Alt-Right movement, dubbed the “Alt-Lite,” and explains why making this distinction is crucial in coming to an accurate view of the Alt-Right!

September 6, 2017

The Long History of White Nationalism in America

Read an excerpt, originally posted by LitHub, on the difficulty of tracing the lineage of the Alt-Right due to the complexity of the history of white nationalism in the U.S., from MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, by George Hawley.