February 27, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Zulfikar Ghose on Machado de Assis

“The modern short story as created by Chekhov, Kafka, Henry James, Conrad and Joyce is a marvel of world literature. Add Machado de Assis to that list and you will find yourself in a world of sheer magic.” — Zulfikar...

February 27, 2014

Ending the Endless: Thomas Aquinas

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 26, 2014

Interview with Caren Irr, author of Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

In a wide-ranging interview with Critical Margins, Caren Irr discussed her new book Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century. In the book, Irr argues that one of the dominant trends in twenty-first century American fiction are...

February 26, 2014

Asceticosmologies: Modern Science as Religious Practice

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 25, 2014

How to Avoid the G-Word

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 25, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The DMZ, Gass, Millhauser, Slow Movies, and More New Titles

Our weekly listing of new books now available: DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border Suk-Young Kim The Barnum Museum (Available again) Steven Millhauser Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife William H. Gass Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action...

February 21, 2014

Shifting Sands After the Arab Spring

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 20, 2014

The Yom Kippur War and the Changing Calculus of U.S. Foreign Policy

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 20, 2014

The Post-Book

Read an excerpt of an interview with S. D. Chrostowska, author of the novel PERMISSION.

February 19, 2014

The Olympics, Large Sporting Events, and Recalibrating the Discussion on Human Trafficking (It’s Not Just For Sex, People) — Stephanie Hepburn

The following post is by Stephanie Hepburn, coauthor of Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight: In preparation for the Winter Olympics this month and the Paralympic Games in March, Russia has spent an estimated (U.S.) $51 billion...

February 19, 2014

Tiptoeing Through Minefields

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 18, 2014

The Middle East in the Eye of the Global Storm, by Joel Migdal

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...