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...

April 8, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Badiou on Lacan, History, Mad Moms, and More!

The following books are now available: Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis Paul A. Cohen Moved by the Past: Discontinuity and Historical...

April 7, 2014

Fashioning Appetite — Joanne Finkelstein

The following post by Joanne Finkelstein, author of Fashioning Appetite: Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity, was first published on The I.B. Tauris Blog: Evaluating one another’s taste is an ordinary aspect of everyday social life. We look for...

April 4, 2014

University Press Roundup

Read our weekly roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!

April 4, 2014

What You Can Do to End Slavery

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 4, 2014

Nancy Foner on Immigration in Twenty-First Century New York City

Nancy Foner, author of One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century, recently appeared on City Talk to talk about immigration in New York City:

April 3, 2014

The Story of James Kofi Annan

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 3, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Excerpt from Triangle, by Hisaki Matsuuri

“Walking along a sparsely lit street at sunset, when the silhouettes of people and things are melting away, I’m sometimes overcome by the presence of spirits, or what I imagine to be spirits, even though I’m in the middle of...

April 3, 2014

Michael Mann Discusses Climate Change on Charlie Rose

Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, appeared on Charlie Rose to discuss the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change most recent report on global warming. Joined by Jeffrey Sachs and Michael...

April 2, 2014

Survivors of Modern Slavery Speak

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 2, 2014

Noah Coburn and Anna Larson on the Afghan Elections

In the lead up to the April 5th elections in Afghanistan, Noah Coburn and Anna Larson, authors of Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan: Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape have created Afghan Elections dedicated to observation and analysis of the 2014...