July 6, 2011

History News Network Reviews Reds at the Blackboard

With the recent efforts to weaken teachers’ unions and corporate-led “school reform,” Clarence Taylor’s recently published Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union has taken on a new relevance. The book was recently...

July 5, 2011

Howard Marks and The Most Important Thing Hit the New York Times Bestsller List

“When I see memos from Howard Marks in my mail, they’re the first thing I open and read. I always learn something, and that goes double for his book.”– Warren Buffett It seems as Warren Buffett is not the only...

July 5, 2011

New Book Tuesday: U.S. Religon and Eastern Wisdom

Religion in America: A Political History Denis Lacorne Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary The Quest for God and the Good: World Philosophy as a Living Experience Diana Lobel Letters From Prison, Volume 2...

July 1, 2011

Adam McKeown on immigration

The following is an essay by Adam McKeown, author of Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. Immigration law is the last and most unrepentant bastion of discrimination in the modern world. Among the causes for discrimination are...

June 30, 2011

1 800 CEO READ weighs in on Designing for Growth

The blog for 1-800-CEO-READ, the excellent website devoted to business books, posted last week about Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie. They lay out the relevance of design thinking for business...

June 29, 2011

The Immanent Frame on Political Theology

The terrific blog The Immanent Frame from the Social Science Research Council is currently hosting a discussion on Paul Kahn’s new book Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. The discussion started with an excerpt from the...

June 28, 2011

New Book Tuesday: The Business of Digital Journalism

The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave, and Lucas Graves The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Production, Reception, and Performance in Western Christianity Edited by Susan Boynton...

June 27, 2011

Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey on Romance and Same-Sex Marriage

In the aftermath of New York’s gay pride parade which celebrated the recent passage of same-sex marriage, we are posting an excerpt from Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey’s Between a Man and a Woman?: Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage. In the book...

June 24, 2011

The Unsentimental Jane Austen

“It was once said that erotic literature is meant to be read ‘with one hand.’ Our misreaders of Jane Austen mistakenly think she writes about sex and love with both hands tied.”—Rachel Brownstein In a recent essay for the Book...

June 23, 2011

Interview with Mark Kukis, author of Voices from Iraq

“The experience of the U.S. invasion and occupation scarred the country much more deeply than even I as a correspondent there imagined.”—Mark Kukis In a recent interview with Time magazine, Mark Kukis discussed his recently published book Voices from Iraq:...

June 22, 2011

Levy Hideo on His New Novel and Writing in Japanese

Levy Hideo (Ian Hideo Levy, 1950–) is known as the first white American novelist to write in Japanese. His novel A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard: A Novel in Three Parts, which was just published, tells the...

June 21, 2011

Slavoj Zizek Lands on Page Six With Lady Gaga!

Rare are the days in which we can open the New York Post and find a Columbia University Press author splashed across Page Six. However, Slavoj Zizek, co-editor of Hegel and the Infinite, co-author of Democracy in What State?, and...