April 12, 2013

William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz

Take our quiz on William Logan’s poetry criticism for a chance to win FREE copies of William Logan’s Our Savage Age and The Undiscovered Country!

April 11, 2013

Siobhan Phillips — A Case for Collected Poems

The following post is by Siobhan Phillips, author of The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse: We come on poetry in any number of ways. We dip into anthologies, page through journals, take in our favorite’s...

April 10, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith on The Wild World of Lulu

In the following post, Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, explores the new publishing options open to poets and whether poetry still needs publishers: Poetry is cunning. Eternally broke and without resources, it manages...

April 9, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Carl Schmitt, Terry Gilliam, Losing a Million Dollars, and More New Titles

To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections Jacob Taubes; Translated by Keith Tribe and with an introduction by Mike Grimshaw What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis: Implications for...

April 9, 2013

Skin and Ink — Mike Chasar Gets a Robert Creeley Tattoo

“My adaptation of ‘I Know a Man’ … also links me to the popular reading practices I study and value—practices that respect and honor important texts not by preserving those texts in the unchanging museum space of an anthology, but...

April 8, 2013

The History of U.S. Capitalism

Yesterday’s New York Times article In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism by Jennifer Schuessler explores “the specter of capitalism” in history departments. As Schuessler explains: After decades of “history from below,” focusing on women, minorities and other marginalized people...

April 5, 2013

University Press Roundup

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

April 4, 2013

The Films of Hollywood and Hitler

Throughout the week Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, has been discussing a variety of books associated with the politics of the time. Here are some clips and trailers from the films. All the quotes are taken from...

April 4, 2013

Thomas Doherty — The Anti-Fascism of the 1930s and the Backstory to the Hollywood Blacklist

In the following essay, Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, examines how the ant-fascist movement in 1930s Hollywood shaped the blacklist in 1950s Hollywood: Last November, the Hollywood Reporter deviated from its normal beat and published and in-depth...

April 3, 2013

Interview with Thomas Doherty, Author of Hollywood and Hitler (part 2)

“The pictures of Nazism first projected by Hollywood between 1933 and 1939 will always be before our eyes.”—Thomas Doherty In the second half of our interview, Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, discusses the role of newsreels in...

April 2, 2013

Interview with Thomas Doherty, Author of "Hollywood & Hitler, 1933-1939" (part 1)

“Up until 1938-1939, there were really no anti-Nazi films from the major Hollywood studios….For most of the 1930s, the major studios were missing in action.”—Thomas Doherty Our featured book this week is Hollywood in Hitler, 1933-1939, by Thomas Doherty. In...

April 2, 2013

Reminder: Save 50% on ALL Titles from Columbia University Press!

“Wait, what?” That’s right our Spring Sale continues and you can save 50% on ALL titles. (We were going to post this reminder but worried people would think it was an April Fool’s prank.) Spread the word! To save 50%...