October 4, 2012

Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge

In the following TED Talk, Sophal Ear, author of Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy, describes his own family’s story of escaping the Khmer Rouge:

October 4, 2012

Jonathan Mack on Lee Boyd Malvo

We continue our week-long feature on The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper with an interview with Jonathan H. Mack, Psy.D. Mack is a forensic psychologist and in the book he identifies and analyzes the underlying clinical psychological...

October 3, 2012

Interview with Carmeta Albarus, Author of "The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper"

The following is an interview with Carmeta Albarus, author of The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper. Albarus, a social worker, was instructed by the court to uncover any information that might help mitigate the death sentence the...

October 3, 2012

Alan Schroeder on the First Televised Presidential Debate

“That son of a bitch just cost us the election.”—Henry Cabot Lodge, the Republican vice-presidential candidate after the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate On the occasion of tonight’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, we thought it might be worthwhile...

October 2, 2012

Carmeta Albarus and The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo

The tenth anniversary of the the sniper shootings in Washington, D.C. has brought renewed attention to John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo’s killing spree, which terrified the city. Two people with an especially close relationship to the case are Carmeta...

October 2, 2012

Book Giveaway: The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: D.C. Sniper

“The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo offers the unabashed truth about children who face emotional and psychological scars resulting from feelings of rejection, abandonment, and other trauma by being left home by parents who immigrated overseas.” — Geneive Brown Metzger...

October 2, 2012

New Books This Week: Feminism and Modernism, Aid in Cambodia, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism Ewa Ziarek Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy Sophal Ear South Sudan: From Revolution to Independence Matthew LeRiche and Matthew Arnold The...

September 28, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

September 28, 2012

Daniel Herwitz on How Barack Obama Has Drawn Upon Abraham Lincoln

“Obama is a figure with the screen presence of a film star (like Diana). Palin is not, she is the quintessential TV actor, from sitcom, talk show, reality TV.”—Daniel Herwitz In the chapter, “Tocqueville on the Bridge to Nowhere,” from...

September 27, 2012

Daniel Herwitz on The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption

In addition to Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony, we’ve been lucky enough to be be the publisher for other books by Daniel Herwitz. In addition to Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto, and The Don Giovanni...

September 27, 2012

Randi Saloman — Generic Truths

“Virginia Woolf used the essay for literary exploration and discovered freedoms in it that she was unable to achieve in the seemingly freer world of her novels. She and other modern writers found that the desire for authenticity, for a...

September 26, 2012

Interview with Daniel Herwitz, Part II

“Heritage began as a secular religion and is now a battleground between the forces of recognition, politics and commerce. It is where art, culture, history, politics and markets meet. Little could be more interesting than this.”—Daniel Herwitz Here is the...