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...

August 1, 2012

Stanley Aronowitz on C. Wright Mills as Public Intellectual

“Mills is an exhilarating exemplar of the role and reach of the public radical intellectual and, at the same time, a sobering reminder of how far the human sciences have declined since the end of the Vietnam war.”—Stanley Aronowitz In...

August 1, 2012

Stephen Bronner, Author of Modernism at the Barricades, Takes The Page 99 Test

Recently, Stephen Bronner author of Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia, took The Page 99 Test. The test, thought up by Ford Maddox Ford, posits that the 99th page of a book determines the quality of a book. Bronner...

July 31, 2012

Interview with Stanley Aronowitz

“If [Mills] were alive today, in 2012, he would be very skeptical of, if not oppositional to, people like Obama and the Democratic Party.”—Stanley Aronowitz In a recent interview with The Brooklyn Rail Stanley Aronowitz discussed his new book on...

July 31, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Revolt in Syria, Factory Towns in China, and Anna May Wong

Revolt in Syria: Eye-witness to the Uprising Stephen Starr Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend Graham Russell Gao Hodges Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook Edited by Stefan Al Nonviolence in Political Theory Iain Attack...