April 2, 2015

Japan’s Adjustment to Geostrategic Change

Read a post by Sheila A. Smith, author of INTIMATE RIVALS: JAPANESE DOMESTIC POLITICS AND A RISING CHINA, in which she looks at recent events in Japan-China relations, and explains how they relate to her book’s argument.

April 1, 2015

Watch Sheila Smith discuss Intimate Rivals

Watch Sheila Smith discuss her new book, INTIMATE RIVALS: JAPANESE DOMESTIC POLITICS AND A RISING CHINA.

March 31, 2015

Contending with China

Read an excerpt from “Contending with China,” the first chapter of Sheila A. Smith’s INTIMATE RIVALS: JAPANESE DOMESTIC POLITICS AND A RISING CHINA.

March 31, 2015

New Book Tuesday: The Philosophy of David Foster Wallace and More New Books

Our weekly listing of new titles.

March 29, 2015

Academic Freedom and Literature – Author Events This Week

A list of CUP author events for the coming week.

March 27, 2015

University Press Roundup

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

March 26, 2015

Kimerer LaMothe on Why We Dance

Read an interview with Kimerer LaMothe, author of WHY WE DANCE: A PHILOSOPHY OF BODILY BECOMING.

March 26, 2015

Two Early Chicago Films Heading to Blu-Ray

The following post is by Michael Smith, co-author with Adam Selzer of Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry In the introduction to Flickering Empire, Adam Selzer and I quote film scholar Susan Doll who said that it...

March 25, 2015

Sandra Fahy on North Korea and the Impact of Famine

Read excerpts from an interview with Sandra Fahy, author of “Marching Through Suffering,” on North Korea’s current social situation and the challenges of studying the North Korean people.

March 25, 2015

Interview with Michael Glover Smith, Co-Author of "Flickering Empire (Part 2)

Read the second part of our discussion with Michael Glover Smith, author of “Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry.”

March 24, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Junk DNA, Michael Jackson's Harmattan, The End of Cinema, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles: Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome Nessa Carey Harmattan: A Philosophical Fiction Michael Jackson The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age André Gaudreault and...

March 24, 2015

Interview with Michael Smith, co-author of "Flickering Empire"

Michael Smith, author of “Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry,” discusses how the Second City used to be first in film.