April 26, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Nomadic Subjects Revised and The Death of Philosophy

The following books are now available: Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, Revised Edition Rosi Braidotti The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self-reference in Contemporary Thought Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel Mencius (Now available in paper) Mencius; Translated by...

April 25, 2011

The Legacy of Jacques Derrida — Peggy Kamuf's "To Follow"

“If Derrida’s legacy is to survive into the future, you’ve got to read this book”—Elissa Marder, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Peggy Kamuf has been one of the leading translators and readers of Jacques Derrida in English. Her most recent work,...

April 22, 2011

The Most Important Thing — A Good Money Move

In their annual list of new ideas about how to make the most of your money, the editors from Money Magazine suggested reading The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, by Howard Marks. Money writes, Warren Buffett...

April 21, 2011

Hillary Chute and Lynda Barry

Thanks to Lynda Barry for holding up Hillary Chute’s book, Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. The photo was taken shortly before Hillary Chute moderated a conversation on comics with Barry and Alison Bechdel at a recent event at...

April 21, 2011

Modern Chinese Drama

PRI’s The World recently reviewed The Columbia Anthology of Modern Drama, edited by Xiaomei Chen. The review praises the book, writing “the anthology’s excellent selection, colloquial and stage-friendly translations, and illuminating introduction undoubtedly make the volume the authoritative choice in...

April 20, 2011

Mark Goble's Beautiful Circuits

“Modernism as we knew it is not going to return. But the digital technologies that are the future also look a lot like history.”—Mark Goble The Townsend Humanities Lab recently featured Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life, by Mark...

April 19, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Anatheism

The following books are now available: Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Now available in paper) Richard Kearney A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (Now available in paper) Michael Berry

April 18, 2011

Interview with Sera Young on "Good Food"

Recently Sera Young was on KCRW’s Good Food to discuss her new book Craving Earth: Understanding Pica—the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk. In the interview she discusses among other the definition of pica (eating non-food items), the...

April 18, 2011

New York Times and Times Literary Supplement on David Foster Wallace

Yesterday’s front page of the New York Times Book Review included a review of his final novel The Pale King and his legendary undergraduate thesis now published as Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will. The Times Literary...

April 15, 2011

Christopher Davidson on Political Repression in the United Arab Emirates

In the current issue of Foreign Policy, Christopher Davidson, author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success: The Vulnerability of Success and Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond, discusses the increasingly repressive tactics in the United Arab Emirates. In the face of...

April 14, 2011

David Foster Wallace on Free Will

“Had [David Foster] Wallace stuck with philosophy, and had he lived, he would have been a major figure in our field.” In his review of David Foster Wallace’s Fate Time and Language: An Essay in Free Will in the Notre...

April 14, 2011

Interview with Deepak Sarma, author of Classical Indian Philosophy

The following is an interview with Deepak Sarma, author of Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader. Question: What was the inspiration behind this book? Deepak Sarma: I’ve taught classes in Indian philosophy since 1998 and I was not happy with the...