July 22, 2014

New Book Tuesday! Lectures by Koolhaas; Pictures by Bourdieu; and Poems by Salmun!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available: Preservation is Overtaking Us Rem Koolhaas; with a supplement by Jorge Otero-Pailos The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet (Now available in paper) Lawrence J. Friedman Picturing Algeria (Now available in paper)...

July 18, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

July 18, 2014

Carlos DeLuna, Carlos Hernandez, and Wanda Lopez: the Story in Pictures

See pictures and evidence telling the story of THE WRONG CARLOS on our Pinterest board!

July 17, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Interview with Andrej Blatnik

Read an interview with Dalkey Archive Press author Andrej Blatnik on his recent short story collection LAW OF DESIRE!

July 17, 2014

The Wrong Carlos: Video Testimony

Watch video interviews with people connected to the Carlos DeLuna murder case from THE WRONG CARLOS.

July 16, 2014

Do we execute innocent people?

“Our book challenges readers to consider the evidence we have carefully arrayed—and to test each phrase in the book against all of the relevant evidence on the point to which readers can quickly link on the web site—and decide for...

July 15, 2014

The Death of Wanda Lopez

Read “The Death of Wanda Lopez,” an excerpt from THE WRONG CARLOS: ANATOMY OF A WRONGFUL EXECUTION, by James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project.

July 15, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Interspecies Ethics, Esoteric Buddhist Rituals, and New Fiction from Dalkey Archive!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Interspecies Ethics Cynthia Willett Spells, Images, and Mandalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals Koichi Shinohara Metamorphosis Nicholas Mosley The Tree with No Name Drago Jančar. Translated by Michael Biggins Ballerina,...

July 11, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

July 11, 2014

Bangladesh, New York, and Florida after the Great Collapse of 2093

We conclude our week-long feature on The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway with three maps from 2393 that illustrate the ravages of climate change on Bangladesh, New York, and...

July 10, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: A Conversation with Danilo Kiš

Read a conversation between novelist Danilo Kiš and Brendan Lemon.

July 10, 2014

Naomi Oreskes on Why We Should Trust Scientists

In the following TED Talk, Naomi Oreskes, coauthor (with Erik M. Conway) of The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, discusses why we should trust scientists. From the TED description: Many of the world’s biggest problems require...