March 29, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Altered States, A Political History of GDP, Jonas Mekas and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available: Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America Douglas Osto The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP Philipp Lepenies Movie Journal: The Rise of the New American Cinema,...

March 29, 2016

The Psychology of Climate Change — Jeffrey T. Kiehl

Jeffrey Kiehl, author of “Facing Climate Change,” on the psychology behind denialism.

March 28, 2016

What Kate Did — On the Legacy of Kate Millett's "Sexual Politics"

“What Millett’s work showed were the ways that political action and cultural expression interpenetrate. Both sites of struggle were necessary to bringing about the “altered consciousness” that, for Millett, would mark a sexual revolution and bring ‘a world we can...

March 24, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Blue Wolf by Inoue Yasushi, translated by Joshua Fogel

For this week’s Thursday Fiction Corner, Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar muses on the (unfair) expectations readers put on translations after having read THE BLUE WOLF, by Inoue Yasushi, translated by Joshua Fogel.

March 24, 2016

A Sort of Dessert

Read the afterword to EAT THIS BOOK: A CARNIVORE’S MANIFESTO, by Dominique Lestel, translated by Gary Steiner.

March 23, 2016

The Vegetarian’s Unacceptable Arrogance

Read an excerpt of a carnivore’s manifesto by French philosopher Dominique Lestel, in which he argues that the vegetarian adopts an attitude of unacceptable arrogance in refusing to eat meat.

March 22, 2016

A Sort of Apéritif

Read the introduction to EAT THIS BOOK: A CARNIVORE’S MANIFESTO, by Dominique Lestel, translated by Gary Steiner.

March 22, 2016

New Book Tuesday! Kosher Food in America, Fiction in the World

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

March 17, 2016

We Are All Cannibals — Claude Levi-Strauss

“So varied are the modalities of cannibalism, so diverse its real or supposed functions, that we may come to doubt whether the notion of cannibalism as it is currently employed can be defined in a relatively precise manner. It dissolves...

March 15, 2016

Brawn in Civilization — A History of Virility

“For muscle is everywhere. It jumped over the walls of the stadium and the ropes of the ring a long time ago. It reigns absolute on screens large and small…. The claim on muscles has been democra­tized, the practice of...

March 15, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Dark Ecology, New York's Yiddish Theater, and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new titles from Columbia University Press and our distributed presses.

March 14, 2016

Michael Marder on Trump Metaphysics

“Trump trumps metaphysics.”—Michael Marder Michael Marder, author of The Philosopher’s Plant among other books in plant studies, recently turned his attention to another kind of life form: Donald Trump. In Trump Metaphysics, a recent essay for the Los Angeles Review...