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August 4, 2015

Bruce Hoffman's Foreword to "Terrorism in Cyberspace"

Read an excerpt from Bruce Hoffman’s foreword to Gabriel Weimann’s TERRORISM IN CYBERSPACE: THE NEXT GENERATION.

August 4, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Charlie Munger, History, Inventing English, and More New Books

Our weekly listing of new books now available for sale

August 3, 2015

The Blackening of Havana

Read an article on Santería and race relations in Cuba by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, author of ELECTRIC SANTERIA: RACIAL AND SEXUAL ASSEMBLAGES OF TRANSNATIONAL RELIGION, originally published on the Huffington Post’s BlackVoices blog.

July 31, 2015

Translation's Futures and the Work of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries — Rebecca Walkowitz

Rebecca Walkowitz discusses the work of web artist Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.

July 31, 2015

University Press Roundup

Our weekly links roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!

July 30, 2015

Rebecca Walkowitz on Writing in Translation

In this video, Rebecca Walkowitz, author of “Born Translated,” discusses writing in translation.

July 29, 2015

Will the New Man Booker International Prize Challenge English’s Dominance in World Literature?

“Upgrading the status of translators, the prize upgrades the status of multilingualism. It also upgrades the status of translations. No longer merely derivations or adaptations of original works, translated editions will be assessed as works in their own right.”—Rebecca Walkowitz...

July 29, 2015

Video: Edward T. O'Donnell on Henry George

Watch a video of Henry George discussing his new book “Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age”.

July 28, 2015

Interview with Rebecca Walkowitz, author of Born Translated

“For a long time, we’ve assumed that all books begin in one language, often called a ‘native language,’ and then travel out to other languages. This is how we’ve expected ‘world literature’ to work. But today, many books begin in...