January 24, 2013

The Many Faces of Roland Barthes; or Rolling with Roland

With our recent publication of the first-ever English translation of How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces” by Roland Barthes, we thought a visual tribute was in order. Visit our board on Pinterest for more photos of...

January 23, 2013

Howard Marks's "Cold-Shower" Letter

One of the most important voices on Wall Street is Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital Management and author of The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor. As reported by Robert Lenzer at Forbes, Howard Mark’s most...

January 23, 2013

Kate Briggs — On Table-making and Translation

In the following post, Kate Briggs, the translator of How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces, discusses the challenges and joys of translating Roland Barthes. “If I identify with Robinson Crusoe it’s not only because it took...

January 23, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith — Poet Laureate of the Museum of Modern Art

Congratulations to Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, on being named the Museum of Modern Art’s first poet laureate. In connection with this, Goldsmith will be delivering a special lecture on March 13th. Goldsmith...

January 22, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Gypsy "Menace" and More

The following titles are now available: The Gypsy “Menace”: Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics Edited by Michael Stewart Virilio and Visual Culture Edited by John Armitage and Ryan Bishop The Poetry of Jack Spicer Daniel Katz Global Solidarity Lawrence...

January 18, 2013

University Press Roundup

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

January 18, 2013

Read an Excerpt from our Book of the Week: Jonathan Kahn's Race in a Bottle

This week, we’ve brought you an interview and author post from Jonathan Kahn, Hamline Law Professor and expert on BiDil, the first race-specified drug approved by the FDA (click here for the story of BiDil). To wrap up our feature...

January 17, 2013

Jonathan Kahn – Is the Patent Office Forcing Race into Biotechnology Patents?

One of the most significant things you’ll learn from Jonathan Kahn’s new book, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age, is that racial discourse surfaces within most all of the vertically integrated...

January 17, 2013

Interview with Nahshon Perez, author of Freedom from Past Injustices

“Do contemporary citizens, some of them descendants of wrongdoers, owe anything to the descendants of victims? For almost all cases, the answer given is no.”—Nahshon Perez The following is an interview with Nahshon Perez, author of Freedom from Past Injustices:...

January 16, 2013

VIDEO: Andrew Smith Discusses American Drinking History

Last month, Andrew F. Smith, author of Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages, discussed what makes American drinks “American” at the Los Angeles Public Library in an event sponsored by the Culinary Historians of Southern...

January 16, 2013

An Interview with Race in a Bottle author Jonathan Kahn

Earlier this week, we posted on BiDil, the first FDA-approved drug with a race-specific indication on its label. In the following interview with Columbia University Press, Jonathan Kahn, author of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized...

January 16, 2013

Interview with James Pettifer, author of The Kosova Liberation Army

The following is an interview with James Pettifer, author of The Kosova Liberation Army: Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948-2001 : Question: Some years have passed now since the main conflicts in the Balkans, and interest in them has been...