April 5, 2016

The Five Domains of Digital Transformation

Read “The Five Domains of Digital Transformation,” an excerpt from the first chapter of THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PLAYBOOK: RETHINK YOUR BUSINESS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE, by David L. Rogers!

March 31, 2016

University Press Roundup

The latest in academic publishing blogs, from segregation in education to how we will feed ourselves in the era of climate change.

March 30, 2016

VIDEO: Jeffrey T. Kiehl on What Earth's Past Tells Us About the Future of Climate Change

Jeffrey Kiehl, author of “Facing Climate Change,” discusses a recent study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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...