June 7, 2016

Introducing Black Gods of the Asphalt

Read an excerpt from the introduction to BLACK GODS OF THE ASPHALT: RELIGION, HIP-HOP, AND STREET BASKETBALL, by Onaje X. O. Woodbine.

June 7, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Irigaray and Marder on Vegetal Being, and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

June 3, 2016

Debunking the Myth That Lincoln Was Gay

Read an excerpt from an interview with Charles Strozier, author of YOUR FRIEND FOREVER, A. LINCOLN, originally published in THE DAILY BEAST, in which he discusses the character of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln’s friendship with Joshua Speed.

June 1, 2016

Introducing "Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln"

Read the preface to YOUR FRIEND FOREVER, A. LINCOLN: THE ENDURING FRIENDSHIP OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by Charles B. Strozier.

May 31, 2016

The New World of Male Friendship

Read a guest post by Charles Strozier, author of YOUR FRIEND FOREVER, A. LINCOLN, in which he gives an overview of the close male friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, and explains why that friendship has become such a touchstone for controversy.

May 31, 2016

New Books This Week: Exhaustion, The Evolution of Money, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available.

May 27, 2016

Can Business Help Stop Global Warming and the Other Four Horsemen? — Daniel Callahan

Daniel Callahan’s list of businesses and industry partnerships trying to stop global warming and other environmental and social problems.

May 25, 2016

Fat: To Be Or Not To Be? — Daniel Callahan

Daniel Callahan, author of “The Five Horsemen of the Modern World,” on how society must address and describe obesity in new ways.

May 24, 2016

An Interview with Daniel Callahan, author of "The Five Horsemen of the Modern World"

“At the heart of the progress problem is that we usually do not want to stop progress, and don’t know how to do so even when we need to try.”—Daniel Callahan The following is an interview with Daniel Callahan, author...

May 24, 2016

New Book Tuesday: 17 Thoughts about Language, Eric Rohmer, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available.

May 23, 2016

Book Giveaway! The Five Horsemen of the Modern World, by Daniel Callahan

This week our featured book is “The Five Horsemen of the Modern World: Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity,” by Daniel Callahan.

May 20, 2016

“National Income” in the Encyclopaedia Of the Social Sciences

Read a short excerpt from THE POWER OF A SINGLE NUMBER: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF GDP, by Philipp Lepenies, in which he tells the story of how Simon Kuznets got his conception of national income into the 1933 edition of the Encyclopaedia Of The Social Sciences.