February 24, 2015

An Interview with Doug Rossinow, author of The Reagan Era

“We still live in the world Reagan and Reaganites made.”—Doug Rossinow The following is an interview with Doug Rossinow, author of The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s. Question: Were the 1980s really “the Reagan era”? Is it possible...

February 24, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Coins that Changed the World, The Highway of Despair, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books.

February 20, 2015

University Press Roundup

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February 20, 2015

Smoke, Mirrors, and Hot Air: The Denial of Global Warming — James L. Powell

“As bad as the effects of smoking have been and will be, they pale beside the death and destruction that global warming is set to visit upon us. Will Big Oil one day find itself in the courtroom?” — James L. Powell

February 19, 2015

"How can scientists be wrong for decades, yet science winds up being right?"

The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth, by James Lawrence Powell. During the twentieth century, scientists made four fundamental and surprising discoveries about the Earth: our planet is...

February 19, 2015

The Other Blacklist — An Interview with Mary Helen Washington

Mary Helen Washington, author of “The Other Blacklist,” discusses how leftist politics shaped African American literature and culture.

February 18, 2015

Interview with James Powell, author of "Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences"

Read an interview with James Powell, author of “Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences”

February 18, 2015

Eric Walrond, Harlem Renaissance Forgotten Giant — James Davis

An article on and an upcoming event for “Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean,” by James Davis

February 17, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Genealogy of American Finance, After the Manifesto, and More

Genealogy of American Finance Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla; Foreword by Charles M. Royce Telling It Again and Again: Repetition in Literature and Film Bruce F. Kawin Addendum to a Photo Album Vladislav Otroshenko. Translated by Lisa Hayden After...

February 17, 2015

Interview with Houston Baker and K. Merinda Simmons, editors of The Trouble with Post-Blackness

An interview with Houston Baker and K. Merinda Simmons about their new book “The Trouble with Post-Blackness”

February 13, 2015

Absorbed in Translation: The Art — and Fun — of Literary Translation, by Juliet Winters Carpenter

The following essay is by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, and the co-translator of The Fall of Language in the Age of English. The essay was originally published on The Conversation. I recently stumbled upon a...

February 13, 2015

University Press Roundup

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