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July 25, 2018

Summer Reading Series: Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales

This week we’re featuring Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales. Last week, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia excerpted the prefaces from the book as part of the Summer Reading Series. Below, is the first excerpt in the series. Remember...

July 24, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Afro-Dog, No Place for Russia, Foucault at the Movies and More!

Our weekly list of new titles is now available! Afro-Dog Blackness and the Animal Question Bénédicte Boisseron No Place for Russia European Security Institutions Since 1989 William H. Hill Foucault at the Movies Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, Dork Zabunyan. Translated...

July 24, 2018

Introducing Sentimental Tales

Mikhail Zoshchenko was a popular leading Soviet satirist in the 1920s. Last month, we released the translation of Sentimental Tales, which are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. Translated by Boris...

July 19, 2018

Tariffs and Unintended Consequences: The Case of 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. Today we are happy to present a guest post from author Philip Thai on tariffs and unintended consequences. •  •  •  • ...

July 18, 2018

Introducing China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965

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!  Today we are happy provide an excerpt from the books introduction. Be sure to enter our drawing for...

July 17, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Retirement and Its Discontents, After Eunuchs, Islamophobia and the Novel and more!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Retirement and Its Discontents Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even if We Can Michelle Pannor Silver After Eunuchs Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China Howard Chiang Islamophobia...

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...

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