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...

July 18, 2011

Interview: Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves on the Changing Business of News

“Why does the New York Times website, which gets close to thirty million unique users, generate so much less revenue than the print newspaper, which has nine hundred thousand weekday subscribers? It just doesn’t make sense?”–Bill Grueskin Bill Grueskin’s question...

July 15, 2011

Religious fundamentalism can only take hold in a modern society like our own

Rorotoko ran a great piece by William Egginton about his new book, In Defense of Religious Moderation, under the provocative headline above. Egginton goes on to explain: The current debate around religion in America has been dominated by fundamentalists and...

July 14, 2011

More on Political Theology by Paul Kahn at The Immanent Frame

Let’s check in with The Immanent Frame today to see how the roundtable discussion about Paul Kahn’s new book, Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty is going. Since we last looked at the debate three new...

July 13, 2011

Q&A with Brent Stockwell on the future of drug discovery

The following is an interview with Brent R. Stockwell, author of The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines. Q: Why are so few new medicines being discovered? Brent R. Stockwell: This is...

July 13, 2011

Last day to enter our free book giveaway!

Today is the last day to enter our free book giveaway of film titles from our new imprint Wallflower Press, here are the details as previously posted: In honor of the acquisition of Wallflower Press by Columbia University Press we...

July 12, 2011

New Book Tuesday: The Summons of Love and Civil Resistance

New books now available: The Summons of Love Mari Ruti Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories: Learning Psychodynamic Concepts from Life Kerry...

July 11, 2011

The Trees of Central Park

Edward Barnard, author of New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area, recently teamed up with the birder Ken Chaya to produce a map of nearly every tree in Central Park. Their efforts were recently the subject...