July 16, 2018

Book Giveaway! China’s War on Smuggling

This week, our featured book is China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965, by Philip Thai! Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

July 11, 2018

New Books! Chaos in the Liberal Order, Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction, Forging the Golden Urn and More

Below is our weekly list of new releases! Chaos in the Liberal Order The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Robert Jervis, Francis J. Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction...

July 7, 2018

The Best Thing in the World

Browning was born in England in 1806, the oldest of 12, and grew up in a Turkish-style mansion. She secretly married Robert Browning, also a poet, amidst the melodrama of paternal opposition and romantic art. She published her first book...

July 6, 2018

Novel Sounds: A Playlist

“Every chapter of Novel Sounds works at a high and steady pitch of intelligence and cogency. Dore’s intricate connections, juxtapositions, and analyses of multimedia interanimation are never less than absorbing and are often eye-opening both at the level of textual forms and...

July 5, 2018

Florence Dore Moderator: Rock and Literature II

“In Florence Dore’s electrifying, genre-busting tour de force, the mid-twentieth-century inventors of literary formalism, tracing poetic tradition to the ballad form, inadvertently open literature’s floodgates to encompass the bold ‘novel sounds’ of rock ‘n’ roll. Southern fiction, no less than...

July 4, 2018

Introducing Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction In The Age Of Rock And Roll

“This is an original and subtle book, with punk-rock ricochets.” ~ Greil Marcus This week, our featured book is Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll, by Florence Dore! Today we are happy to bring you an excerpt...

July 3, 2018

Florence Dore on Bob Dylan

“Novel Sounds is a brilliantly literary account of rock and roll and American culture. From Lead Belly at the MLA to Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Dore demonstrates how profoundly and unexpectedly entwined our literary histories are with their sonic media. She...

July 3, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: This Landmark Critique of Women’s History and Gender Inequality Examines the Use of Gender as a Tool for Historical and Cultural Analysis

Joan Wallach Scott’s Gender and the Politics of History played a significant role in the movement of women from the margins of historical focus to the center in the 1980s. This collection of essays was inspired by Scott’s tenure as Director of...

July 2, 2018

Book Giveaway! Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

This week, our featured book is Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll, by Florence Dore! To enter for your chance to win, please complete all required fields below. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content...

June 29, 2018

The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (Excerpt)

This week, we’re featuring our newest releases on the topic of climate change. Today’s book excerpt comes from The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy, by Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles

June 28, 2018

The Rosita Conundrum

 Earlier this month we released How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride. Today we are presenting you with a short by Dave Kehr of MoMA about Rosita, with beautiful footage from the restoration and discussion of what happened to the film. Below is...

June 27, 2018

Introducing The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism

This week, we’re featuring our newest releases on the topic of climate change. Today’s book excerpt comes from The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism, by Keith Makoto Woodhouse. A nuanced history of radical environmental thought and action in the late-twentieth-century United States, The Ecocentrists explores how radical...