Category: New Book Tuesday

Our weekly list of new titles now available: American Theatre: History, Context, Form Theresa Saxon The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature John D. Lyons Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature, and the South African...

The Philosopher’s Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano Francois Noudelmann The Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadists, the Military and the People–The Struggle for Control Yunas Samad The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time William K. Tabb When More Is Less:...

The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors; With an Introduction by Jim Nelson The Novel After Theory Judith Ryan American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security Richard K....

Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice B. Alan Wallace History and Repetition Kojin Karatani; edited by Seiji M. Lippit Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory Edited by Marianne...

Socialism Unbound, Second Edition: Principles, Practices, and Prospects Stephen Bronner The Radical Luhmann Hans-Georg Moeller Hindu Widow Marriage Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar

Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics Jacques Ranciere Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters Gordon Shepherd Evolution and the Emergent Self: The Rise of Complexity and Behavioral Versatility in Nature Raymond L. Neubauer The Columbia...

Stalking Nabokov Brian Boyd Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy Partha Chatterjee Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage Edited by James Marcus and the Staff of the Columbia Journalism Review States of War: Enlightenment...

Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past Michael S. Roth The Politics of Postanarchism (now available in paper) Saul Newman