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.

December 17, 2014

How Expectations and Uncertainty Affect the Economy — An Interview with Eric Barthalon

Read an interview with Eric Barthalon, author of UNCERTAINTY, EXPECTATIONS, AND FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: REVIVING ALLAIS’S LOST THEORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME.

December 17, 2014

The Best American Magazine Writing and the Future of Magazines

Sid Holt, editor of THE BEST AMERICAN MAGAZINE WRITING 2014 on the future of magazines.

December 16, 2014

Best Business Writing 2014 — Taking on Google, Facebook, and the Ethos of Silicon Valley

The Best Business Writing 2014, edited by Dean Starkman, Martha Hamilton, and Ryan Chittum includes a series of sharp essays on the culture, practice, ethos, and ideology of Silicon Valley. In different ways, Evgeny Morozov, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Faludi...

December 16, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Dreaming of Cinema and More New Books

Our weekly listing of new titles now available!

December 15, 2014

A Q&A with Janet Poole on Modernist Literature in Korea

Read an interview with Janet Poole in which she discusses her book WHEN THE FUTURE DISAPPEARS: THE MODERNIST IMAGINATION IN LATE COLONIAL KOREA!

December 12, 2014

University Press Roundup

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

December 11, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Ground Zero, Nagasaki

An excerpt from “Ground Zero, Nagasaki: Stories,” by Seirai Yuichi and translated by Paul Warham.

December 11, 2014

Coney Island in Winter — Louis Parascandola

Louis Parascandola, co-editor of “A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion,” on how a summer resort changes but retains its power in the winter.

December 10, 2014

Coney Island in Song

A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion edited by Louis and John Parascandola includes some of the best work of fiction and poetry on Coney Island from Walt Whitman and Federico García Lorca to Djuna Barnes and Colson...

December 9, 2014

A Coney Island Reader — The Warriors

A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion, edited by Louis and John Parascandola, includes numerous portraits of the area that celebrate its beach, sense of fun, and as a respite from the hectic city. The flip side, of...