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November 7, 2012

Boris Gasparov: The "Genuine" Saussure

Boris Gasparov introduces the hugely influential ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure and discusses the controversy of trying to identify the “genuine” Saussure.

November 6, 2012

Japan Embraces Donald Keene

Read a profile of Donald Keene, long-time professor of Japanese literature at Columbia University, in the New York Times.

November 6, 2012

New Books This Week: Drinking History in the U.S., Meatballs, Best American Magazine Writing, and More!

The following is our weekly list our new titles: Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages Andrew F. Smith Best American Magazine Writing 2012 Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors; with...

November 5, 2012

Neurogastronomy, Molecular Gastronomy, and More Dispatches from the World of Science and Food

Last week, our authors of titles which combine science and food were featured in a couple of prominent locales on both sides of the Atlantic. A recent story on the BBC, looks at how the role of science and molecular...

November 2, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

November 2, 2012

Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem, and Others on Sex and World Peace

“The very best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy, or its ethno-religious identity; the best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is how well its women are treated.“ ~ from Sex and...

November 1, 2012

New Book Tuesday (Thursday Edition): Peanut Butter, Secret Financial Life of Food, and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available: The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets Kara Newman Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food Jon Krampner Green Innovation in China: China’s...

October 31, 2012

William Egginton — Can Neuroscience Challenge Roe V. Wade?

“When science becomes the sole or even primary arbiter of such basic notions as personhood, it ceases to be mankind’s most useful servant and threatens, instead, to become its dictator.”—William Egginton Due to Hurricane Sandy, we fell a bit behind...

October 26, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

October 26, 2012

Clockwork Orgy?

In his chapter from the book Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic, edited by Xavier Mendik. I. Q. Hunter takes on the phenomenon of porn “interpretations” of mainstream films. More specifically, he offers a reading of A Clockwork Orgy...

October 25, 2012

Schryer wins Robert K. Martin Book Prize!

Congrats to Stephen Schryer, whose book Fantasies of the New Class has won the 2012 Robert K. Martin Book Prize!

October 24, 2012

Bettie Page, Peep Shows, and Their Impact on 1950s America

One of the most famous icons of erotic cinema is, of course, Bettie Page. In the chapter “Pages of Sin: Bettie Page — From ‘Cheesecake’ Tease to Bondage Queen,” from Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic, Bill Osgerby examines...

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