August 10, 2012

Chek Lap Kok Airport — From "Atlas" by Dung Kai-cheung

In his novel, Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Dung Kai-cheung writes from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. In the following excerpt, Dung mixes the real-life Chek Lap Kok airport with a...

August 9, 2012

Public Square Street from Dung Kai-cheung's "Atlas"

In the third section of his novel Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Dung Kai-cheung describes the streets of the fictional city of Victoria (based on Hong Kong) in the following excerpt he recounts the strange history of Public...

August 9, 2012

800CEOREAD Reviews Best Business Writing 2012

Earlier this summer the popular website 800CEOREAD reviewed The Best Business Writing 2012, edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon. The review praises the book for collecting the most compelling and important writing of the...

August 8, 2012

Dung Kai-cheung on Atlas and History as Fiction

Dung Kai-cheung sets Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong). The novel, which fuses history and fiction is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling...

August 8, 2012

Stephen Starr on the Revolt in Syria

There are many dark days ahead in the short term, but sometime down the line, Syria will be much brighter than it was in 2010.”—Stephen Starr In a recent interview with Syria Today, Stephen Starr, author of Revolt in Syria:...

August 7, 2012

Interview with Dung Kai-cheung

Earlier this summer, Dung Kai-cheung, author of Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City was interviewed by Christopher Mattison in a wide-ranging discussion. Among the issues discussed were translation, the impact of English on Dung’s writing, Hong Kong as a...

August 7, 2012

New Book Tuesday: The Art of Philosophy, The Art of Making Magazines, and More

New titles this week: The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice Peter Sloterdjik The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry Edited by Victor S. Navasky and Evan Cornog Animal Rights Without...

August 6, 2012

Interview with Zheng Wang, author of Never Forget National Humiliation

The following is an interview with Zheng Wang, author of Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations: Question: What is historical memory? Why did you use “never forgot national humiliation” as the title of this...

August 3, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

August 3, 2012

C. Wright Mills Today

“Is there a place for critical knowledge that is not useful to the prevailing powers? Is there a place for the intellectual who is not in uniform?”—Stanley Aronowitz In Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political...

August 2, 2012

Italo Calvino on Gore Vidal

Italo Calvino discusses the work of Gore Vidal.

August 2, 2012

C. Wright Mills and the New York Intllectuals

“As his peers drifted rightward, Mills lurched to the Left, at a time when such a move was decidedly unfashionable.”—Stanley Aronowitz In Taking it Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals, Stanley Aronowitz describes the uneasy intellectual...