August 3, 2011

Rosalind Barnett: Taking Gender Out of the Classroom

“Claims of large gender differences are so pervasive and oft-repeated that they are assumed to be true. However, scores of peer-reviewed studies suggest that these claims are invalid. The fact that they are repeated over and over doesn’t make them...

August 2, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Climate Science and Saint Paul

The Inquisition of Climate Science James L. Powell A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul Stanislas Breton Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts Edited by Lingzhen Wang Writing the Mughal World: Studies on Culture and Politics Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam Social...

August 1, 2011

Luv Puri: Peace Between India and Pakistan?

In his recent essay India and Pakistan’s Surprisingly Successful Negotiations published on the Foreign Policy blog, Luv Puri, author of the forthcoming Across the Line of Control: Inside Azad Kashmir, argues that real, if slow, progress is being made between...

July 29, 2011

Anat Pick on the BBC's The Big Questions

The following is a panel discussion on animal rights that appeared on the BBC which included Anat Pick, author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film:

July 28, 2011

Mari Ruti asks Why Fall in Love?

Mari Ruti, author of The Summons of Love, also writes a blog for Psychology Today called The Juicy Bits: Love, lust, and the luster of life, recently wrote a post exploring the reasons why it is important to fall in...

July 27, 2011

Brent Stockwell on the Future of Medicine

“Over the last 15 years, the annual number of approved new drugs has been declining dramatically. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry, as well as academic and government researchers, have dramatically increased the amount of money spent on drug discovery and development....

July 26, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Gertrude Stein & The Vichy Government

Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma Barbara Will Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam Shahzad Bashir Sibling Relationships in Childhood and Adolescence: Predictors and Outcomes Avidan Milevsky Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making Graham Harman

July 25, 2011

Publishers Weekly Reviews "Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay, and the Vichy Dilemma"

Gertrude Stein has been making a comeback of sorts. She appears in Woody Allen’s new movie Midnight in Paris has spurred sales of her books. Her children’s book To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays was also recently published....

July 22, 2011

The Summons of Love

We end this week by looking at love. Specifically, Mari Ruti’s new book The Summons of Love. In the book, Ruti portrays love as a much more complex, multifaceted phenomenon than we tend to appreciate—an experience that helps us encounter...

July 21, 2011

Recommendations for Digital Journalism from "The Story So Far"

Earlier this week we posted an interview with Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves about their book, co-authored with Ana Seave, The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism. The book examines the practices of news...

July 20, 2011

Keith Roberts Offers an Investment Strategy Based on Ancient History

What had a greater impact on business, the Iron Age or the invention of coinage? What might these developments tell us about more recent historical changes such as globalization or the computer revolution? These are the issues that Keith Roberts,...

July 19, 2011

Interview with Anat Pick, author of Creaturely Poetics

The following is an interview with Anat Pick, author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film. Question: Your title, Creaturely Poetics, does not explicitly mention humans or animals. What or who is “creaturely” and how does speaking...