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September 6, 2011

Charles Strozier's Clinical Meditations on 9/11

“I have walk my dog. My son may be using pot, the terrorists attacked, and I still have to make dinner.” In conjunction with his book Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and...

September 6, 2011

"In the Company of Strangers," by Barry McCrea reviewed in the Irish Times

“McCrea’s work, original, well considered and detailed, offers fresh insight into vital, complex texts and brings queer theory usefully into contemporary debate when reconsidering such influential works.”—Eibhear Walshe, Irish Times The Irish Times’ recent review of Barry McCrea’s In the...

September 6, 2011

New Book Tuesday

Zero and Other Fictions Huang Fan; translated by John Balcom Latino Small Businesses and the American Dream: Community Social Work Practice and Economic and Social Development Melvin Delgado A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian...

September 2, 2011

Jennifer Crewe on Korean literature in translation

The blog New Yorker in Seoul recently interviewed Jennifer Crewe about Columbia University Press’s list in Korean literature. Jennifer, who is the editorial director and associate director of the press, has acquired titles in Korean for the press, making Columbia...

September 1, 2011

Avidan Milevsky — “The Dougherty Gang”: The Dark Side of a Close Sibling Bond

The following post is by Avidan Milevsky, Ph.D., author of Sibling Relationships in Childhood and Adolescence: Predictors and Outcomes. It all allegedly started in the early hours of August 2, 2011. A white 2006 Subaru was pulled over by an...

August 31, 2011

New Book Tuesday (Wednesday Edition)

The following books are now available: The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan

August 30, 2011

James Millward on Being Blacklisted by the Chinese Government

As reported in Bloomberg and The Washington Post, James Millward, author of Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, was among the “Xinjiang 13.” The Xinjiang 13 are a group of scholars of China who were denied visas by the Chinese...

August 29, 2011

Logics of Disintegration: Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Riots in Britain

Graham MacPhee is the author of Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies and associate professor of English at West Chester University. The basic facts, still less the complex causes and conditions of possibility, of the widespread civil unrest across England...

August 26, 2011

Erica Chenoweth on Nonviolence and the Libyan Uprising

Recent events in the Arab world have given Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan’s Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict an important timeliness. Erica Chenoweth recently wrote Think Again: Nonviolent Resistance, published in Foreign Policy, which we...

August 25, 2011

Romain Hayes on Subhas Chandra Bose and Nazi Germany

Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century was an Indian nationalist allied himself with the Nazis during World War II in the hopes of toppling British rule in India. Bose is considered on par...

August 24, 2011

Michael Mann, The Hockey Stick, and the Vindication of Climate Science

Michael Mann, author of the forthcoming The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (due out in Spring 2012), has become a target of anti-science activists and global warming deniers. As reported by Joe Romm’s Climate...

August 23, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Literary studies of Critical Children and Uncreative Writing

The following books are now available: Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels Richard Locke The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand Justin Thomas McDaniel The Teachings of Master Wuzhu: Zen and...