Category: Book of the Week

May 1, 2020

Book Excerpt! Archives of Conjure, by Somilar Otero (introduction)

“Going beyond academic analysis and theorizing, Archives of Conjure highlights the power of ethnography that is an act of resistance and empowerment as well as sustenance for the researcher and the community. Otero’s own life experiences along with the experiences...

April 30, 2020

Book Excerpt! When Principles Pay, by Geoffrey Heal (preface)

“Geoffrey Heal’s scholarly work on environmental economics, the role of the state in economic life, and other contributions to economic analysis have been of great importance and wide reputation. He has now prepared a widely accessible yet careful and responsible...

April 29, 2020

How Damage to the Environment Leads to the Emergence of Previously Unknown Diseases

By Geoffrey Heal

“Geoffrey Heal’s scholarly work on environmental economics, the role of the state in economic life, and other contributions to economic analysis have been of great importance and wide reputation. He has now prepared a widely accessible yet careful and responsible...

April 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! Poetry Unbound, By Mike Chasar (introduction)

“By disclosing what are at once poetry’s most inscrutable and its most public aspects, Chasar reorients our understanding of poetry’s relation to the media, throwing gasoline on the fire of a question we have dodged for too long: what is...

April 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Cinema of James Cameron, by James Clarke (introduction)

“Examines Cameron’s place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines...

April 23, 2020

Origin Stories

By Mike Chasar

“A persuasive, thoroughly researched, memorable, and often delightful book. Mike Chasar has excelled in his ambitious coverage of primary sources. Moreover, this is a book that addresses questions that come up frequently in the poetry world about where and why...

April 22, 2020

Picturing Wilderness

By James Clarke

“Examines Cameron’s place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines...

April 17, 2020

Book Excerpt! Capital and the Common Good, by Georgia Levenson Keohane (introduction)

 “Keohane weaves together case studies from around the globe that illustrate the immense potential of market mechanisms to more effectively use public, philanthropic, and private sector funds to address the world’s seismic challenges. Capital and the Common Good should...

April 16, 2020

Book Excerpt! Make It the Same, by Jacob Edmond (introduction)

“With its revisionist echoes of Pound’s ‘make it new,’ Make It the Same is theoretically generative for thinking about modernist, contemporary, and world literature. Edmond powerfully demonstrates how the new media of repetition have generated a poetics of the same, a ‘copy...

April 16, 2020

Why Stakeholder Capitalism Is a Good Bet in Times of Crisis

By Georgia Levenson Keohane

“Capital and the Common Good shows we are living in a time where financial tools can expand to solve some of the world’s most vexing problems. This book is packed with information and inspiration.” ~Robert J. Shiller, Nobel Laureate in...

April 15, 2020

Verse Versus Virus

By Jacob Edmond

“Make It the Same rebuts the notion that formal word-games are a decadent first-world hobby. It is an empirically broad, thoughtfully constructed, well-written, timely book about an important subject: a technical ‘mode of production’ prominent in contemporary poetry, with its...

April 9, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Greening of Asia, By Mark L. Clifford (introduction)

“With wisdom and insights sprinkled throughout, The Greening of Asia demonstrates that innovation and a core commitment to sustainability are beginning to build a greener prosperity in the world’s fastest growing region…. A well-researched, hopeful book.” ~Doug Ogden, Asian Review of Books...