October 19, 2010

Award Winner! Ted Striphas for "The Late Age of Print"

Congratulations to Ted Striphas, whose Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control recently won the 2010 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Critical Cultural Studies Division. For more on the book read an excerpt...

October 19, 2010

Rorty, Graphic Women & Beautiful Circuits — New Book Tuesday

Here are some new books that are hot off the presses and now available: An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion Richard Rorty Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics Hillary Chute Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and...

October 18, 2010

Why Study the History of Political Thought? — A Post by Dick Howard

The following is a guest post by Dick Howard, author of The Primacy of the Political: A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions. Read an excerpt from the book. This book is the...

October 18, 2010

Jonathan Soffer discusses "Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City" on The Brian Lehrer Show

On Friday, Jonathan Soffer discussed his book Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. In the interview, Soffer talks about how Koch managed the city during a time of severe budget constraints and presidential administrations (Carter and Reagan)...

October 17, 2010

Edward Hess offers some stark lessons from the Dell fraud case

In an op-ed in Forbes, Edward Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth, examines the recent agreement made between Dell and the SEC. For their failure to disclose information and their use...

October 14, 2010

New York Times review Avner Cohen’s The Worst-Kept Secret

In the conclusion of his review in the New York Times, Ethan Bronner calls The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb, “thoughtful, measured and deep, and very much worthy of wide consideration.” Bronner praises Avner Cohen for his analysis...

October 13, 2010

"China has an unhappy relationship with Nobel Prizes"

Julia Lovell, translator of Zhu Wen’s I Love Dolllars and Other Stories of China, began her op-ed on Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel published in The Independent by writing, “China has an unhappy relationship with Nobel Prizes.” As Lovell points out no...

October 12, 2010

New York City, Questions, Oddities, and History

Every year the librarians at the New-York Historical Society Library field thousands of questions from patrons. In When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green? 102 of the most compelling questions are collected and answered. These questions illuminate New York’s ...

October 12, 2010

Award Winner! The African Diaspora, by Patrick Manning

Congratulations to Patrick Manning, whose book The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture was recently named the winner of the 2010 Association of Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award. Here’s what the judges of the book had to...

October 8, 2010

Interview with Jonathan Soffer, author of Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

The following is an interview with Jonathan Soffer, author of  Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. For more on the book, browse the book via Google Preview. Q: What makes a great mayor? Does Koch qualify? Jonathan...

October 7, 2010

A Tale of Two Seminars — A Post by Robert Hanning

It’s sometimes argued that teaching and research (including, by extension, scholarly writing) make strange pedagogical bedfellows, but having taught both undergraduates and graduate students for forty-five years, all the while doing a fair amount of research and writing, I find...

October 7, 2010

Leonard Cassuto as Art Curator

Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University and author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crimes Stories, is curating an exhibit entitled The Art of Captivity. Idiom interviewed Cassuto about the exhibit, which includes works that explore...