July 26, 2013

Frederick Cooper: How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be?

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, the final day of this week’s feature, we have an excerpt from Frederick Cooper’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “How Global Do We...

July 25, 2013

Julia Lovell Discusses Zhu Wen with the Los Angeles Review of Books

There is certainly no shortage of writing about contemporary China by historians, journalists, and political scientists. While their work and analysis undoubtedly deepens our understanding of China, it is often left to fiction to fill in some of the gaps...

July 25, 2013

Cemil Aydin: Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the "Muslim World"

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, we have an excerpt from Cemil Aydin’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the ‘Muslim World.’”...

July 24, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith on The Colbert Report

Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, has read at the White House, been the poet laureate at the Museum of Modern Art, is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and can now add...

July 24, 2013

Samuel Moyn: Global Intellectual Life Past and Present

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, we are cross-posting a short article by Samuel Moyn, originally published on Interdisciplines, which uses David Mitchell’s novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob...

July 23, 2013

Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori: Approaches to Global Intellectual History

Read an excerpt from “Approaches to Global Intellectual History,” by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, the first chapter of GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, edited by Moyn and Sartori.

July 23, 2013

New Book Tuesday: A Little Gay History, Al Qaeda's Strategy and More!

The following books are now available. For more recent titles click here: A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World R. B. Parkinson Decoding Al-Qaeda’s Strategy: The Deep Battle Against America Michael W. S. Ryan Robert N. Butler,...

July 22, 2013

Laura Frost Names the 10 Best Modernist Novels in English

Publishers Weekly recently asked Laura Frost, author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents to name The 10 Best Modernist Books (in English). For the more ambitious readers the list provides a kind of alternate beach-reading list. Frost...

July 19, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the academic publishing blogosphere.

July 19, 2013

Further reading on the problem with God from Peter J. Steinberger

Check out a list of further reading if you are interested in the philosophical background of the problem with God, pulled from the Afterword of Peter J. Steinberger’s THE PROBLEM WITH GOD.

July 18, 2013

A Q&A with Peter J. Steinberger

Read a Q&A with Peter J. Steinberger about his new book, THE PROBLEM WITH GOD.

July 17, 2013

Peter Steinberger: "An Exercise in Chutzpah"

Read a blog post by Peter J. Steinberger on his goals in writing his new book, THE PROBLEM WITH GOD.