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October 30, 2015

A Guru for Our Time: Eqbal Ahmad and the Life of Dissent from Empire

Read an article by Stuart Schaar, author of EQBAL AHMAD, telling a number of poignant stories about Schaar’s relationship with Ahmad and about Ahmad’s life as an activist and seminal political thinker, originally published at Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog.

October 29, 2015

Eqbal Ahmad and Edward Said

Read an excerpt from EQBAL AHMAD: CRITICAL OUTSIDER IN A TURBULENT AGE, by Stuart Schaar, in which Schaar tells the tale of the friendship between Ahmad and Edward Said.

October 28, 2015

International Climate Negotiations

In advance of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in early December, brush up on the history and future of international climate negotiations with this excerpt from GREEN CAPITAL: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON GROWTH, by Christian de Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet, translated by Michael Westlake!

October 27, 2015

Introducing Green Capital

Read an excerpt from the introduction to GREEN CAPITAL: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON GROWTH, by Christian de Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet, translated by Michael Westlake!

October 23, 2015

Carol Jacobs on the Style of W. G. Sebald

“Sebald insistently refuses to call his works novels. Prose book, prose text, prose literature: just not novel.”—Carol Jacobs In the following excerpt from Sebald’s Vision, Carol Jacobs examines Sebald’s distinct style, his famous use of photographs, and his mixing of...

October 22, 2015

Sebald's "Air War and Literature"

“Sebald demands a language that closely follows upon the events of destruction and brings them into our memory … Sebald calls for a language that makes one see.”—Carol Jacobs In the following excerpt from Sebald’s Vision, Carol Jacobs discusses Sebald’s...

October 21, 2015

"In Sebald one encounters an ethics of melancholy outrage" — Carol Jacobs on W. G. Sebald

Read an excerpt from “Sebald’s Vision,” by Carol Jacobs.

October 20, 2015

Interview with Carol Jacobs, author of "Sebald's Vision"

“In many of [Sebald’s] works one is drawn along in elaborate sentences that get you to a destination with only the remotest connections to where they began. It’s like traveling on a train whose tracks are constantly encountering a switch,...

October 16, 2015

How Evolutionary Psychology Can Affect Political Change — Gillian Barker

Gillian Barker, author of “Beyond Biofatalism,” argues that evolutionary psychology — properly understood — can play a part in confronting climate change and other political and social problems.

October 14, 2015