Category: Reviews

May 15, 2009

eats.com reviews Herve This's Building a Meal

The Web site eats.com recently reviewed and praised Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism, by Herve This. In addition to commenting on This’s wonderful writing and his ability to make science accessible, the review also highlights his...

May 12, 2009

The Buddha Diaries Reviews Mind in the Balance

The Buddha Diaries recently reviewed Alan Wallace’s Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. Here’s a brief excerpt from the review: Exploring, first, the long history of religious meditation practice in both East and West from its...

April 27, 2009

The New York Times Reviews William Logan's Our Savage Art

Given William Logan’s sharp criticisms of contemporary poets (see examples here and here), one could only wonder how he might fare under the scrutiny of another critic. So, how would the New York Times Book Review assess William Logan’s new...

April 9, 2009

The Tablet Reviews Global Catholicism

“Every bishop and priest in the Catholic Church should sit down and read this remarkable book.” So begins a review from The Tablet of Ian Linden’s Global Catholicism: Pluralism and Renewal in a World Church. The Tablet, which is Britain’s...

April 3, 2009

Feministe Reviews Sex Trafficking

The popular Web site Feministe has just posted a review of Siddharth Kara’s Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. Here’s an excerpt from the review: “Solutions are where Kara’s analysis really shines. He offers a two pronged plan...

March 16, 2009

Peter Gay reviews Breeding by Jenny Davidson in Bookforum

Peter Gay has many good things to say about Jenny Davidson’s Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century in the most recent issue of Bookforum. However, before getting to a discussion of the book itself, Gay focuses his attention...

January 26, 2009

Siddharth Kara at the Carnegie Council and in the Financial Times

Over the weekend, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, by Siddharth Kara was reviewed in the Financial Times. In the very favorable review, Jonathan Birchall writes: In India, [Kara] argues a bungalow brothel makes an average of $12,926...

November 11, 2008

Religion and Manly Hippies: Two New Reviews

H-Amstdy, an online scholarly discussion group and listserv dedicated to American Studies, recently published reviews of two Columbia University Press titles. (You can also save 20% on these titles during our special sale on American Studies titles.) In a review...

June 11, 2008

The Hudson as Literary Muse: Frances Dunwell's The Hudson: America's River

The New Yorker’s blog on books, The Book Bench, recently featured Frances Dunwell’s The Hudson: America’s River. The post reflects on how the Hudson River has inspired key American writers such as, Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, and Herman Melville. Frances...

June 11, 2008

A Review of Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East from "A Fistful of Euros"

We had meant to post something about this sooner but earlier this month A Fistful of Euros (AFOE) reviewed Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. (Read a pdf of the Roy’s introduction here.) AFOE is an...

May 28, 2008

Donald Keene: Review in Bookforum and Meeting Greta Garbo!

We were doubly fortunate yesterday to both receive our new issue of the always excellent Bookforum, which is again chock-full of interesting articles and reviews and is fully accessible online, and to find Roland Kelts’s glowing review of Donald Keene’s...

May 5, 2008

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: New York Times Book Review

This Sunday’s New York Times Book Review featured Francine Prose’s glowing review of Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai. In the review Prose writes, “Wang Anyi’s complex and penetrating portrayal of her heroine … best...