March 18, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Restaurants, the Blacklist, the Dirty Art of Poetry, and More New Books!

The following books are now available: Fashioning Appetite: Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity Joanne Finkelstein The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s Mary Helen Washington Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art...

March 17, 2014

When Was the First St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City?

An increasingly controversial event, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade has nevertheless been a staple of New York City life. But just how much of a staple is it? To answer that question, we turn to When Did the Statue of...

March 14, 2014

University Press Roundup

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

March 14, 2014

"Do you believe in fate, Neo?" Law, Freedom, Representation, and Identity in THE MATRIX

Happy Friday, everyone! But before we continue on with the University Press Roundup, we’d like to conclude our week-long feature of Paul W. Kahn’s Finding Ourselves at the Movies. In the except below, Kahn illuminates the underlying philosophies of the...

March 13, 2014

LINCOLN: Sacrifice, Family, and Politics

As part of our ongoing feature of Paul W. Kahn’s Finding Ourselves at the Movies, we’re delighted to share a guest post from the author himself on Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln. Don’t forget to enter our book giveaway for...

March 13, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Interview with Melissa Malouf

Read an interview with Melissa Malouf, author of More Than You Know!

March 12, 2014

Philosophy as Narrative, Dialogue, Disruption: An Interview with Paul W. Kahn

Next up for our feature on Paul Kahn’s Finding Ourselves at the Movies, we highlight excerpts from the author’s recent interview with Critical Margins. Here, Kahn details some of the themes found in his book, as well as touches on...

March 12, 2014

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science? An interview with Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Read an interview with Mary-Jane Rubenstein in Religion Dispatches Magazine

March 11, 2014

Philosophy in Film, Between Science and Opinion

Continuing our week-long feature of Paul W. Kahn’s Finding Ourselves at the Movies, we present today an excerpt from the opening chapter of the book, titled “Philosophy, Democracy, and the Turn to Film.” In it, Kahn grapples with the idea...

March 11, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Winnebago Nation, Video Revolutions, Alain Robbe-Grillet and More New Titles!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture James B. Twitchell Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium Michael Z. Newman New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang Asian and Feminist...

March 10, 2014

Will Putin Look to Annex More Territory? Why the Crimea Crisis Is Not about a Greater Russia Project

In a recent post for The Washington Post‘s blog The Monkey Cage, Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayres draw on arguments and themes in their book For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War to examine the situation in...

March 7, 2014

University Press Roundup

And we’re back! 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....