Category: Video

November 17, 2011

Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Take on Shakespeare

In Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, Kenneth Goldsmith argues that language expressed either semantically or as code is behind everything we read, see, and hear online. The ability of writers and artists to manipulate this “language” opens...

October 4, 2011

Paul Pillar Discusses Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy on Andrea Mitchell Reports to Discuss

Fresh off a review of his book Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy:Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform, in the New York Times , Paul Pillar was a guest on Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC. Among other issues, Pillar discusses not only...

August 22, 2011

New video series from NYHS answers questions about New York City history

The New-York Historical Society and NYC Media, the official network of the City of New York, have partnered to produce a special series of one minute videos that feature the staff of the New York Historical Society as they answer...

July 29, 2011

Anat Pick on the BBC's The Big Questions

The following is a panel discussion on animal rights that appeared on the BBC which included Anat Pick, author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film:

June 22, 2011

Levy Hideo on His New Novel and Writing in Japanese

Levy Hideo (Ian Hideo Levy, 1950–) is known as the first white American novelist to write in Japanese. His novel A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard: A Novel in Three Parts, which was just published, tells the...

May 19, 2011

Brent Stockwell on The Quest for the Cure

Brent Stockwell discusses his new book The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines. The book explores the history of drug development, the challenges facing scientists and promising research approaches, including some in...

February 16, 2011

Avner Cohen Discusses The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb

The following is a recent interview with Avner Cohen, author of The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb on Conversations with History:

October 21, 2010

Video for Seth Stein's Disaster Deferred

See below for a video for Seth Stein’s new book, Disaster Deferred: How New Science Is Changing our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest. For more on the book, you can also read an interview with the author, browse...

October 6, 2010

Video for Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

The following is a video for Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. For more on the book, you can browse the book using Google Preview or visit the site jonathansoffer.com

August 18, 2010

Hiroshima After Iraq — Rosalyn Deutsche on Political Art

In Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War, Rosalyn Deutsche begins by citing a 2008 article in October that polled a group of “art world intellectuals” about artistic critiques of about the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq....

July 30, 2010

Siddharth Kara on Human Trafficking in India

Siddharth Kara, the author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, continues his CNN series on human trafficking with an interview with Becky Anderson. In the interview Kara discusses human trafficking in India and shows pictures of its...

June 28, 2010

Siddharth Kara's "Sex Trafficking" now available in paperback

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, by Siddharth Kara is now available in paperback. The book has been one of our most critically acclaimed and bestselling titles over the last couple of years. More important, the book and...