September 19, 2013

Cake and Immigration: A Recap of the Launch for Nancy Foner's "One Out of Three"

The above cake was part of last night’s celebration at the Tenement Museum for the launch of One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Nancy Foner. In addition to the delicious cake which featured...

September 18, 2013

Matt J. Rossano: The Ritual Species

This week our featured book is Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution, by Matt J. Rossano. (And don’t forget to enter our book giveaway for a chance to win a FREE copy...

September 17, 2013

Excerpt: Matt J. Rossano's Preface and Introduction to Mortal Rituals

This week our featured book is Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution, by Matt J. Rossano. In the Preface to Mortal Rituals, Rossano explains the general premise of his work on the...

September 17, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Afrasian Imagination and an Award-Winner Now in Paper

Our weekly listing of new titles now available: Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination Gaurav Desai The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture (Now available in paper) Nerina Rustomji

September 13, 2013

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. Do words matter?...

September 13, 2013

Julia Lovell on Zhu Wen

We conclude our week-long feature on The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China,with an excerpt from Julia Lovell’s Translator’s Preface to Zhu Wen’s earlier collection of short stories, I Love Dollars. Don’t forget to enter...

September 12, 2013

Interview with Writer and Filmmaker Zhu Wen

In keeping with our featured book this week, Zhu Wen’s The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan, we cover today a 2011 interview of Zhu Wen, conducted by the Wang Ge of Timeout Beijing. In the interview, Wang discusses...

September 12, 2013

Hollywood and Hitler Reviewed in The New Yorker

The debate continues. Writing for The New Yorker, David Denby weighs in on the competing interpretations of Hollywood’s complicity with Nazism advanced in two new books: Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, by Thomas Doherty and The Collaboration Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler,...

September 11, 2013

An Interview with Translator Julia Lovell

Read part of an interview with Julia Lovell, translator of Zhu Wen’s The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

September 11, 2013

Kerry Malawista — Tales from Both Sides of the Couch

A conventional view of psychoanalysis features the therapist listening intently to the patient. But what if the therapist suddenly dominates the conversation? This is what happened to Kerry Malawista, coauthor of Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories: Learning...

September 10, 2013

Excerpt: "The Apprentice," by Zhu Wen

Read “The Apprentice,” an excerpt from Zhu Wen’s THE MATCHMAKER, THE APPRENTICE, AND THE FOOTBALL FAN.

September 10, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Counterinsurgency in Crisis and Contemporary Japanese Politics

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Counterinsurgency in Crisis: Britain and the Challenges of Modern Warfare David H. Ucko and Robert Egnell Contemporary Japanese Politics: Institutional Changes and Power Shifts Tomohito Shinoda