January 5, 2011

J. P. Singh Takes The Page 99 Test

J. P. Singh, author of Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity, recently took the page 99 test as a way to describe some of the central themes of his book. Here are some excerpts from his essay for...

January 5, 2011

Agamben, Badiou, Nancy, Ranciere, Zizek — New Book Tuesday (Wednesday Edition)

We were on vacation last week, so here are books from the past two weeks that are now available. From Agamben & Co. to the paperback reprint of The Late Age of Print, here are some new books to kick...

January 4, 2011

Interview with Stephen Penman, author of Accounting for Value

Q. What’s an extroverted accountant? A. One who looks at your shoes while he is talking to you instead of his own. The above joke comes from a recent interview on Ideas at Work with Stephen Penman, author of the...

December 22, 2010

Hillary Chute, Lynda Barry, Ben Katchor and Others on the Art of the Graphic Novel

Earlier this month Hillary Chute, author of Graphic Women: Life Narratives and Contemporary Comics participated on a panel at the Philoctetes Center with Lynda Barry, N.C. Christopher Couch, Ben Katchor, and Françoise Mouly on the art of the graphic novel....

December 21, 2010

New Book Tuesday — Gramsci!

The following books are now available: Prison Notebooks, Volume 1 (now available in paper) Antonio Gramsci Prison Notebooks, Volume 2 (now available in paper) Antonio Gramsci Prison Notebooks, Volume 3 (now available in paper) Antonio Gramsci The Invention of International...

December 20, 2010

David Foster Wallace: Brief Interviews with Philosophy Students, Part II

In conjunction with the publication of David Foster Wallace’s undergraduate thesis, Maureen Eckert, coeditor of Fate, Time, and Language, interviewed two contemporary philosophy students whose first exposure to the work of David Foster Wallace came through his philosophical work. These...

December 17, 2010

Interview with Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, authors of Genetic Justice

Leonard Lopate’s show on WNYC includes a weekly future “Underreported,” which looks at issues that are often relegated to the back of the newspaper. The latest installment focused on the use of forensic DNA databanks by law enforcement has exploded...

December 16, 2010

The Afterlife of Sayyid Qutb

Marc Lynch recently praised John Calvert’s Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism, calling it one of the best books of the year in The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. John Calvert himself recently contributed an essay to the Foreign...

December 16, 2010

Year-End Accolades for Smart Growth by Edward Hess

Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth, by Edward Hess has been receiving a variety of year-end accolades. Inc. Magazine listed it as one of the year’s best for business owners. In recommending the book,...

December 15, 2010

Steven Cahn on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace

Matt Bucher, the administrator of wallace-l, the David Foster Wallace listserv, and the publisher of two books on Wallace’s work interviews Steven Cahn, a student of Richard Taylor, a voice in the debate on fatalism, and a coeditor of Fate,...

December 15, 2010

An Open Letter to President Obama

A few Columbia University Press / Hurst authors, including Gilles Dorronsoro, Antonio Giustozzi, Felix Kuehn, Alex Strick van Linschoten, joined other academics, experts, and members of NGOs who have worked in Afghanistan, to protest Obama’s policy in Afghanistan. You can...

December 14, 2010

Slavery, the bottom line: An interview with Siddharth Kara

In an interview with The Boston Globe, Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, explains why understanding sex trafficking as an economic issue is crucial to its eradication. Whereas a leading industry like Google has...