January 8, 2015

But if I try to explain it…

Read a guest post on the evolution of the meanings of words by Daniel Cloud, author of THE DOMESTICATION OF LANGUAGE!

January 7, 2015

Two interviews with Daniel Cloud on "The Domestication of Language"

Listen to two podcast interviews with Daniel Cloud, author of THE DOMESTICATION OF LANGUAGE!

January 6, 2015

Humans Aren't Influenced by Culture–We Create It

Read an interview with Daniel Cloud, author of THE DOMESTICATION OF LANGUAGE, originally featured on Quartz.

January 6, 2015

New Book Tuesday: New Books in Film, Media, and Literary Studies

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

December 30, 2014

New Book Tuesday! Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? Nicholas Dirks's Autobiography of an Archive, and More!

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December 23, 2014

New Book Tuesday: New Titles in Asian Studies and Fiction from Dalkey Archive Press

Our weekly listing of new titles!

December 22, 2014

Evan Thompson's Waking, Dreaming, Being reviewed in the New York Times

Read Adam Frank’s NYTimes review of Evan Thompson’s WAKING, DREAMING, BEING: SELF AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN NEUROSCIENCE, MEDITATION, AND PHILOSOPHY!

December 19, 2014

University Press Roundup

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

December 19, 2014

The Strange Journey of John McAfee via The Best American Magazine Writing 2014

Read an excerpt from Joshua Davis’s extraordinary story about the very strange rise and fall of software mogul John McAfee.

December 18, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Julia Kristeva and Teresa of Ávila in the New York Times

Read Carlene Bauer’s review of TERESA, MY LOVE, by Julia Kristeva, which originally appeared in the New York Times.

December 18, 2014

Jared Del Rosso on the Torture Debate and the CIA Report

“The report offers, at last, a peak at the CIA’s own documentary record. What we find is what critics of the program have long known we’d find. Not the mastery or enhancement of violence, but torture.”—Jared Del Rosso The following...

December 18, 2014

The Best Business Writing 2014 on The NFL's Questionable Business Practices

Two pieces from THE BEST BUSINESS WRITING 2014 exposes the very questionable and exploitative business practices of the NFL.