May 6, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Umami, the Brain, $, Wine, Atheists, and More New Books!

Our weekly list of titles now available: Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbæk The World’s First Stock Exchange Lodewijk Petram The Custom-Made Brain: Cerebral Plasticity, Regeneration, and Enhancement Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie...

May 5, 2014

Design Winners from the 2014 New York Book Show!

We were very excited to hear that four of our books were winners in the 2014 New York Book Show. Sponsored by the Book Industry Guild of New York, the award honors, and celebrates excellence in book production and design....

May 2, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly collection of the best blog posts from the world of academic publishing.

May 2, 2014

Blood Online

Read and watch more content on Gil Anidjar’s BLOOD: A CRITIQUE OF CHRISTIANITY!

May 2, 2014

A Critique of Chrisitanity, by Gil Anidjar

“[T]o inquire after blood was another way to ask whether there is a Christian question, a concept of Christianity even, a manner whereby we have come to know, whereby we have established with any sense of certainty, what Christianity is.”...

May 1, 2014

My Thoughts Be Bloody, by Gil Anidjar

Read “My Thoughts Be Bloody,” a guest post by Gil Anidjar, author of BLOOD: A CRITIQUE OF CHRISTIANITY.

May 1, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Context No. 24

Dalkey Archive Press volunteer Rosie Clarke discusses the latest edition of Dalkey’s Context publication.

May 1, 2014

Dean Starkman on Financial Journalism and the Disappearance of Investigative Reporting

Dean Starkman, author of The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism, was recently interviewed on All Things Considered on changing trends in news and what it might mean for the future of journalism....

April 30, 2014

Why I Am Such a Good Christian, by Gil Anidjar

“[B]efore or aside from all that, there is the task of measuring or marking the boundaries and limits of Christianity. How far does Christianity go? How wide does it spread, and what depths does it reach? What divisions does it...

April 30, 2014

Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst Debate Tolerance

The Power of Tolerance: A Debate was inspired by a conversation between Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst. In the the debate the two discussed different discourses of tolerance, their normative premises, limits, and political implications. The main focus was on...

April 29, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Creating a Learning Society by Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald and More New Titles!

New books now available: Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald Our Broad Present: Time and Contemporary Culture Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht The Inner Life of the Dying...

April 28, 2014

A Q&A with Matthew Akester, translator of Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

Read a Q&A with Matthew Akester, translator of Tubten Khetsun’s Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule.