April 17, 2014

The RV in Popular Culture: From Lucy to Walter White

In Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture, James Twitchell also explores the depiction of the RV in the movies. Up until the 1960s, Twitchell argues, the RV was “an object of much interest and even yearning”. However, as “the...

April 16, 2014

Slab City

“Slabs is Burning Man with a vulture overhead. It looked to me like the end of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.”—James Twitchell As described in Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture, the camping site is an important part...

April 15, 2014

The RV Through History — Images from Winnebago Nation

The following are images that illuminate the evolution of the RV from the “Gypsy Van” at the beginning of the twentieth century to the iconic Winnebago. The images, of course, come from this week’s featured book Winnebago Nation: The RV...

April 15, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Imaginal Politics, Klump, and More New Titles

The following books are now available: Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary Chiara Bottici A Man: Klaus Klump Gonçalo M. Tavares East Sails West: The Voyage of the Keying, 1846–1855 Stephen Davies Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan...

April 10, 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. April is National...

April 10, 2014

Excerpt from The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s by Mary Helen Washington

The following is an excerpt from the introduction to The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, by Mary Helen Washington. In this excerpt Washington discusses the important, but often overlooked, role of the Communist...

April 10, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: A Conversation with Nicholas Mosley

Read a conversation between award-winning novelist Nicholas Mosley and John O’Brien, founder of Dalkey Archive Press.

April 10, 2014

Video: Interview with Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot

The following is an interview with Michael Yogg author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot. The interview is with Glyn Holton, who writes the following: Today, I interview Michael Yogg, author of the...

April 9, 2014

Video: Mary Helen Washington on African American and the Communist Party

In the following video, Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, explains how her Catholic upbringing in the 1950s led to an interest in the relationship between African Americans...

April 9, 2014

The EU: A Dictatorship of Freedoms (Part 2) — Albena Azmonova

The following is part two of a post by Albena Azmanova, author of The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment. You can read the first half of the post here. “The grievances against austerity that are now...

April 8, 2014

Interview with Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

“I’m trying to restore that tradition of mid-century black left radical resistance, so that we don’t remember the 1950s only as the era of ‘integration’ but as the era of black civil rights radicalism. I’m restoring the other blacklist, the...

April 8, 2014

The EU: A Dictatorship of Freedoms (Part 1) — Albena Azmonova

The following is part one of a post by Albena Azmanova, author of The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment. We will post part two tomorrow. Azmanova will be speaking at The New School tonight at 6...