June 13, 2012

The Audit on Bad Business Journalism

Columbia Journalism Review‘s The Audit, which features all the editors of The Best Business Writing 2012, not only celebrates excellence in business journalism but also criticizes its failures. One fault, detailed in a 2009 piece by Dean Starkman , is...

June 12, 2012

Dean Starkman on the Importance of Business Journalism for Democracy

“It’s not going overboard to say that great business writing is the vital link between the public and the institutions that shape our economic lives.”—Dean Starkman, The Best Business Writing 2012 The following is an excerpt from Dean Starkman’s introduction...

June 12, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Aronowitz on Mills, the iPhone, Economists Speak Out, and Rivers

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals Stanley Aronowitz Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media Edited by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau The Economists’...

June 11, 2012

Santiago Zabala — Nietzsche on WikiLeaks

Santiago Zabala looks at Wikileaks through the thought of Nietzsche.

June 11, 2012

Book Giveaway! The Best Business Writing 2012

This week’s featured book is The Best Business Writing 2012, edited by Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon. The book is part of our exciting new series from Columbia Journalism Review Books. Contributors include...

June 8, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best articles from the academic publishing blogosphere.

June 7, 2012

Michael Marder and Gary Francione Debate Plant Ethics, Part Three

Michael Marder and Gary Francione finish their debate on the impact of “plant thinking” on dietary ethics.

June 7, 2012

Interview with Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies

Continuing our week-long focus on debates within animal studies, we wanted to spotlight a recent interview with Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida, that was posted on On Human-Nonhuman Relations. Calarco’s work,...

June 6, 2012

Michael Marder and Gary Francione Debate Plant Ethics, Part Two

Gary Francione and Michael Marder continue their debate around Marder’s op-eds for the New York Times and the notion of plant ethics. You can read part 1 of the debate here. Question: What would it mean for ethical eating if...

June 6, 2012

Columbia University Press Authors at dOCUMENTA 13

The eagerly anticipated art fair dOCUMENTA 13, held every five years, opens on June 9 in Kassel, Germany. dOCUMENTA has become one of the biggest art events in the world but also includes “other objects and experiments in the fields...

June 5, 2012

Michael Marder and Gary Francione Debate Plant Ethics

Michael Marder and Gary Francione debate the logical basis for plant ethics and the impact that plant ethics could have on the animal rights movement.

June 5, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Olivier Assayas, Shizi, and the Art of the New York Times

A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas Edited by Kent Jones Shizi: China’s First Syncretist Shizi; translated by Paul Fischer All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times...