February 10, 2014

Marianne Hirsch on the MLA's Resolution on Israel and Palestine

“When it comes to the topic of Israel and Palestine, discussion is curtailed before it begins. In a debate that is structured to allow only two clear-cut sides, words lose their meaning.”—Marianne Hirsch Recent resolutions from the American Studies Association...

February 7, 2014

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts 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. February is African...

February 7, 2014

Beyond News and Ezra Klein's New Venture

The following post is by Mitchell Stephens, author of the forthcoming Beyond News: The Future of Journalism: “The century-and-a-half-long period in human history when it was possible to make a big business out of selling news … was an anomaly,...

February 6, 2014

The Concept of the State in General Can and Must Be Destroyed

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

February 6, 2014

Hans van de Ven on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

The following post is by Hans van de Ven, author of Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China: “The Chinese Maritime Customs Service helped keep China together at key critical moments...

February 5, 2014

Michael Mann Takes on the National Review and Climate Change Skeptics

“A lot of us would much rather be spending our time doing science, but an increasingly large amount of our time is spent on defending ourselves against bad-faith attacks. Over time, I have come to embrace that.”—Michael Mann In a...

February 5, 2014

Economic Struggle and Political Struggle, by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

February 4, 2014

Read the prefaces to Factory of Strategy, by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

February 4, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Insect Cookbook (really), a New Book from Mark Taylor, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles: The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet Arnold van Huis, Henk van Gurp, and Marcel Dicke Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill Mark C. Taylor A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and...

January 31, 2014

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! It’s been a few weeks since our last installment so we have quite a bit of catching up to do. Our list of links is...

January 31, 2014

Happiness and Its Discontents, Part III

This week our featured book is The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living by Mari Ruti. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

January 30, 2014

Salman Rushdie on the Role of Religion in Literature and the Literary Imagination

Below is an excerpt from an edited transcript from the public discussion Salman Rushdie had with Gauri Viswanathan. The full transcript was recently published in the new book Boundaries of Toleration, edited by Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor as part...