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July 9, 2010

"New York is the most Latin American city in the world."

The above quote from a Daily News article is from Claudio Remeseira, editor of Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook. The article which calls the book “an imposing testimony to the sheer vibrancy of the city’s Hispanic community,” describes the book...

July 6, 2010

Psyched Out — A Review of Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives

Scott McLemee’s recent review of Francois Dosse’s Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives in Bookforum (registration req’d but it’s free!) praises the joint biography for making the academicized Deleuze “mysterious again.” The review also looks at the biography in...

June 29, 2010

James Rodger Fleming on Fixing the Sky

In today’s New York Times, Cornelia Dean has a round-up of books on “geoengineering,” an idea gaining traction in the scientific community. With the effects of global warming becoming more pronounced each day, scientists argue that geonengineering (the application of...

March 18, 2010

Catherine Malabou: Heir to Heidegger, Hegel, and Derrida?

Rather than having to wait a year or more for reviews of scholarly books, the Web has allowed for more immediate attention and discussion of scholarly books to emerge in a more shorter time. For instance, Catherine Malabou’s Plasticity at...

March 5, 2010

The Basement Boys: George Will on Gary Cross's Men to Boys

It’s not every day that a prominent conservative columnist discusses a university press book, so it is worth mentioning the lengthy references by George Will in his Newsweek column to Gary Cross’s Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity....

November 20, 2009

The Hitler in all of us: The New Statesman reviews Utopia or Auschwitz

Members of Germany’s radical 1968 generation, who criticized the remnants of fascism and Nazism in West German politics and society, would in later years become members of the political elite. Figures like former chancellor Gerhard Schroder or his foreign minister...

November 18, 2009

Beliefnet reviews Mark Taylor's "Field Notes from Elsewhere"

On his Beliefnet blog, Dr. Norris Chumley gives a glowing review to Mark C. Taylor’s new book Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living, calling it a “must read,” and Taylor “a mix of philosopher, metaphysician, and medical...

November 4, 2009

Mark C. Taylor on Field Notes from Elsewhere

In a recent essay on Rorotoko and an interview on Objet Petit A, Mark Taylor explains some of the personal, literary, and philosophical influences that shaped his new work Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Living and Dying. As Taylor...

October 23, 2009

New York Review of Books roundup of books on Hamas

This week’s issue of the New York Review of Books features an essay on Hamas titled “Which Way for Hamas? written by Nicolas Pelham and Max Rodenbeck. One of the books featured in the essay is Jeroen Gunning’s Hamas in...

October 16, 2009

THES reviews Christopher Davidson's Abu Dhabi

In a recent review the Times Higher Education Supplement praises Christopher Davidson’s latest book, Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond, writing, “Specialists and non-specialists will be treated to a critical yet deeply sympathetic account of the raison d’etre and very identity...

September 18, 2009

World Policy reviews Stephen Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives

Perhaps Barack Obama’s decision to scrap the proposed antiballistic shield in Central and Eastern Europe will improve U.S.-Russian relations but as Stephen F. Cohen has argued, much still needs to be done to prevent another Cold War. In his most...

September 10, 2009

Richard Nash on The Late Age of Print

In an interesting and appropriate pairing of reviewer and book, the excellent new Web site, The Critical Flame chose Richard Nash to review Ted Striphas’s The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Richard Nash (R_Nash)...

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