February 1, 2013

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City — Jonathan Soffer and the Legacy of Ed Koch

In his book Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, Jonathan Soffer offers a critique of Ed Koch’s complicated legacy for New York City. Soffer argues Ed Koch was instrument in leading New York City’s recovery from bankruptcy....

February 1, 2013

Mark C. Taylor interviews Mark Danielewski

Read part of a conversation between Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real, and Mark Danielewski, author of House of Leaves.

January 31, 2013

"Philosophy has lost its way"

Read a guest post from Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real.

January 30, 2013

A Q & A with Mark C. Taylor

Read an interview with Professor Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real.

January 30, 2013

A Good Week for Kara Newman

It’s been a good week for Kara Newman (@karanewman), author of The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. A recent review in the Washington Post praised the book for providing “a refreshing and much-needed look” at...

January 30, 2013

VIDEO: W. Bradford Wilcox on Gender and Parenthood

In the following video, W. Bradford Wilcox, the co-editor with Kathleen Kovner Kline of Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives, discusses the different ways in which fathers and mothers parent. While recognizing that a variety of familial structures...

January 29, 2013

Rewiring the Real with Mark C. Taylor

Check out our new Pinterest board for Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real!

January 29, 2013

Mark C. Taylor on the interrelation of art, philosophy, and religion

Read the introduction, “Nexus,” from Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real.

January 29, 2013

New Book Tuesday: A Play by Alain Badiou, Plant Rights, and More New Books

The Incident at Antioch/L’Incident d’Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes Alain Badiou Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life Michael Marder; Foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives...

January 25, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

January 25, 2013

Roland Barthes on How to Live Together

We conclude our week-long feature on How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces. As a reminder for more on the book, you can also read Kate Briggs’s essay on translating Barthes and our visual tribute to the...

January 24, 2013

Buy Breakast — A Post by Kara Newman, author of "The Secret Financial Life of Food"

The following post is by Kara Newman, author of The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. The post was originally published on the blog A Life of Spice: Few people can claim to have had a...