September 5, 2014

Dean Starkman: Wrecking an Economy Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

“We know the banks are eager to put the scandal of the financial crisis behind them. What’s disturbing is that, in the name of deference, convenience, or something darker, the Justice Department is letting them do just that.”—Dean Starkman In...

September 4, 2014

Interview with James Liebman, Author of "The Wrong Carlos"

“If you want money, you rob banks. If you want to study executions, you go to Texas.”—James Liebman A few weeks ago we featured The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution by James Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project...

September 4, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Vice Celebrates 30 Years of Dalkey Archive

A recent article by Blake Butler published in Vice celebrated 30 years of Dalkey Archive Press. In recognizing the singular achievement of Dalkey, Butler wrote: For the past 30 years Dalkey Archive has quietly and consistently been a vital aesthetic...

September 3, 2014

Abominable Science! Wins a AAUP Design Award!

Congratulations to designer Philip Pascuzzo and our design department for winning an AAUP award for best book jacket for Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids by Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero. Needless to say,...

September 3, 2014

Back to School with Anne Campbell — Mike Chasar

The following post is by Mike Chasar, author of Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America. The essay was also published in Arcade: A little less than a year back, I wrote about Edgar Guest, the longtime poet...

September 2, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Newest from Rey Chow, Wombs in Labor, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles: Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience Rey Chow Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India Amrita Pande Youth: Autobiographical Writings Wolfgang Koeppen The Republic of Užupis: A Novel...

September 2, 2014

Author Events for September

We’ve got a great lineup of events this month in locations stretching from Slovenia to Bryn Mawr and on topics ranging from the Middle East to Atheism. Visit our author events page for all the details but herre is a...

August 29, 2014

H. H. Shugart on Comprehending the Earth

“Are we creating the intellectual environment for creative, synthetic, and revolutionary researchers that can push us across the old boundaries into new paradigms? … Sadly, the politicization and the businessification of science may be taking the intellectual and creative environment...

August 29, 2014

University Press Blog Round Up: Ferguson, Social Networking, The Physics of Cocktails, and More!

Before heading off to the beach, read up on some of the excellent posts from university press blogs from the week that was: Jeanne Theoharis explores the connection between the recent protests in Ferguson and the history and legacy of...

August 28, 2014

Can We Change the Weather? H. H. Shugart on the Peril and Promise of Geoengineering

One of the issues H. H. Shugart explores in Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job is whether and to what extent should humankind should see itself as “masters of nature”. In the chapter, “Making...

August 28, 2014

Alain Badiou Performs a Scene from Ahmed the Philosopher

Known as one of the most important contemporary philosophers, Alain Badiou is perhaps less well-known for his abilities as an actor. However, in the video below, Badiou can be seen performing a scene from his play Ahmed the Philosopher: Thirty-Four...

August 27, 2014

H. H Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth, takes the "Page 99 Test"

Earlier this summer, H. H. Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job took the Page 99 Test. Taken from a Ford Maddox Ford quote, the Page 99 Test asks authors to explain...