July 1, 2014

New Book Tuesday: A New Book from Amartya Sen, New Fiction from Dalkey Archive, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles: The Arrow Impossibility Theorem Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan Sugawara no Takasue no Musume Law of Desire: Stories Andrej Blatnik Writers Antoine Volodine Another View:...

June 27, 2014

University Press Roundup

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

June 27, 2014

Jenny Davidson on the Glimmer Factor, Sentences, Chocolate, and More

“All sentences are not created equal. Some are more interest­ing, more intricate, more attractive or repellent than others.”—Jenny Davidson The following is an excerpt from “The Glimmer Factor,” the opening chapter to Reading Style: A Life in Sentences by Jenny...

June 27, 2014

Interview with Alfredo Morabia, author of Enigmas of Health and Disease

The following is an interview with Alfredo Morabia, author of Enigmas of Health and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries. You can also read Morabia’s blog post Michelle Obama and Epidemiology: An Inspiring Example Question Your book offers a...

June 26, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Edouard Levé's Works

Read an essay by Dalkey Archive Press intern Rosie Clarke on Edouard Levé’s WORKS.

June 26, 2014

Jenny Davidson Chooses the Best Books on Hoarding!

The following is a post by Jenny Davidson, author of Reading Style: A Life in Sentences: The TV show Hoarders has brought a good deal of attention to what happens when our instinct to accumulate runs out of control; an...

June 26, 2014

Michelle Obama and Epidemiology: An Inspiring Example

“American children can learn from someone like Michelle Obama, who decides on the basis of scientific evidence, not on mere speculation.”—Alfredo Morabia The following post is by Alfredo Morabia, author of Enigmas of Health and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps Unravel...

June 25, 2014

Jenny Davidson's 10 Favorite Books About Reading

The following is a post from Jenny Davidson, author of Reading Style: A Life in Sentences: Since the internet has tipped us into the great age of listicles, I must confess that I have already been prolific in the matter...

June 25, 2014

Interview with Steven Cohen, Author of Understanding Environmental Policy

“You can’t build a gated community to keep out bad air.”—Steven Cohen In a recent interview with Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Steven Cohen discussed the second edition of his book Understanding Environmental Policy. In the interview,...

June 24, 2014

An Interview with Jenny Davidson, author of Reading Style: A Life in Sentences

“Sentences are my obsession—I linger on them compulsively, it is the feeling of words in the mouth that got me hooked on literature in the first place as a very young child and I wanted to write a book that...

June 24, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Mormons, William Gass, and More New Books!

The following titles are now available: The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United States Edited by Terryl L. Givens and Reid L. Neilson Radical History and the Politics of Art Gabriel Rockhill River Republic: The Fall and Rise of...

June 23, 2014

Analytic Philosophy's Fire Alarm, by Santiago Zabala

Read a post by Santiago Zabala, coauthor of HERMENEUTIC COMMUNISM, on Continental and analytic philosophy.