October 10, 2012

Interview with Marianne Hirsch, Author of "The Generation of Postmemory"

The following is an interview with Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust Question: “Postmemory” – what is it? The description of your book claims that we can inherit other people’s memories,...

October 10, 2012

Siddharth Kara on the Sex Trade in Nepal

For his most recent book, Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, Siddharth Kara is based on his extensive travels to the region. In a running series on CNN’s Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery, Kara discussed what...

October 9, 2012

New Book Tuesday: China's Search for Security and Peepshows

Our weekly list of new titles now available: China’s Search for Security Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic Edited by Xavier Mendik The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield: Fiction 1898–1915...

October 9, 2012

Book Giveaway: "Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia," by Siddharth Kara

“Siddharth Kara’s exploration of bonded labor in South Asia is perhaps the most ambitious and reasoned treatment of this form of slavery in the modern era…. This is a must read for all that want to better understand the trajectory...

October 5, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

October 5, 2012

Carmeta Albarus on Her Relationship with Lee Boyd Malvo

“My reasons for taking on this project include the fact that the journey that led Malvo to this place is one that begs for understanding.”—Carmeta Albarus We conclude our week-long focus on The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C....

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...