August 7, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Interview with Tamaz Chiladze, author of "The Brueghel Moon"

“Ultimately, the function of literature is to intensify mystery, not to solve it, isn’t it?”—Tamaz Chiladze The following is an interview with Tamaz Chiladze, author of The Brueghel Moon. The novel is part of Dalkey Archive’s new Georgian Literature Series:...

August 7, 2014

Househunting in the Homeland — An Essay by Wendy Law-Yone, author of "A Daughter's Memoir of Burma"

The following post is part 1 of an essay by Wendy Law-Yone, author of A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma. For more on the book, you can also read our

August 6, 2014

An Interview with Wendy Law-Yone, author of "A Daughter's Memoir of Burma"

The following is an interview with Wendy Law-Yone, author of A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma: Question: Why did you decide to write a memoir of your father’s life as opposed to a more conventional biography? Wendy Law-Yone: A conventional biography...

August 5, 2014

Video: Wendy Law-Yone Discusses "A Daughter's Memoir of Burma"

In the following video, Wendy Law-Yone discusses her new book A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma at the Frontline Club in London. (Please note, the British title for her book is Golden Parasol: A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma):

August 5, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Intimate Strangers, Alienation, Arab Uprisings, and More New Books!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Intimate Strangers: Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American Political Discourse Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Alienation Rahel Jaeggi The Arab Uprisings Explained: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East Edited by Marc Lynch...

August 1, 2014

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best articles from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. The Association of...

July 31, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner, the Poetry Edition: The Poems of Tomaž Šalamun

“But just being what you are, to be free within your writing, this is also the center of the real responsibility of the world. Therefore, your freedom is a political act.”—Tomaž Šalamun We normally reserve Thursday’s to feature a work...

July 30, 2014

Joel Migdal on the Historical Contexts of The Present-Day Middle East

Joel Migdal, author of Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East, recently appeared on the podcast This is Hell!, to provide some historical context to recent events in the Middle East. In this wide-ranging conversation that starts in...

July 29, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Kant, Academic Style, Male Sex Work, and More New Books

Our weekly list of new titles: Kant and the Meaning of Religion Terry Godlove The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities Eric Hayot Aristotle’s Ladder, Darwin’s Tree: The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order J. David Archibald...

July 28, 2014

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July 25, 2014

"The mind–body dualism has long overstayed its visit" — Concluding Thoughts from Shadow Medicine

“The mind–body dualism has long overstayed its visit. Western science needs to advance beyond the cur­rent reductionist model to some blending of the subjective and social aspects of healing.”—John S. Haller Jr. We conclude our week-long feature on Shadow Medicine:...

July 25, 2014

Theodore de Bary Wins a National Humanities Medal

Congratulations to Wm. Theodore De Bary, on winning a National Humanities Medal. De Bary is an esteemed professor of Asian Studies at Columbia University and a longtime Columbia University Press author and editor of our various Sources of Asian civilization...