September 2, 2010

Summer Reading from The Immanent Frame

The Immanent Frame, a blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere hosted on the Social Science Research Council’s site, recently asked some of its contributors what they had read and liked over the summer. It is a great list...

September 1, 2010

Interview with Ami Pedahzur — The Israeli Secret Services & The Struggle Against Terrorism

The following is a reprint of an interview with Ami Pedahzur, author of The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. The book is now available in paperback: Q: Have you ever worked for the Mossad or any other...

August 31, 2010

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

While its hard to imagine otherwise, Italians have not always embraced the tomato as part of their national cuisine. In a late summer love letter to the tomato the New York Post describes the history of the tomato in Italy...

August 30, 2010

The Velvet Lounge – Great Chicago Jazz Reads

The Chicago Tribune book blog Printers Row recently posted a round-up of the greatest books about the Chicago jazz scene. Printers Row called out for its jazz-like prose Gerald Majer’s The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz. The book is...

August 27, 2010

India's Forced Labor — Siddharth Kara

Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, continues his extraordinary series on CNN.com with a look at forced labor in India. Kara has been traveling in South Asia researching bonded labor and in his latest...

August 26, 2010

Avner Cohen — Bringing Israel's Bomb Out of the Basement

In an op-ed from yesterday’s New York Times Avner Cohen, author of the forthcoming book The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb, and Marvin Miller argue for Israel to end its policy of opacity regarding its possession of nuclear...

August 25, 2010

Back to School — A Questionnaire from What to Do When College Is Not the Best Time of Your Life

David Leibow’s new book What to Do When College Is Not the Best Time of Your Life comes just in time for those returning to school, particularly for those whose experience has been disappointing. At the beginning of his book,...

August 24, 2010

Interview with James Fleming, Author of Fixing the Sky

In an interview earlier this year with SciCom, James Rodger Fleming, author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, discussed his new book and some of the history and science associated with weather and climate...

August 23, 2010

Huffington Post on the 17 Most Innovative University Presses

The Huffington Post recently highlighted university presses, their distinctive lists, and what separates them from trade publishers. Though the list of selected presses is somewhat idiosyncratic (some great presses were not included), the piece by Anis Shivani does nicely summarize...

August 20, 2010

The Late Age of Print Coming to a Syllabus Near You

The Atlantic recently posted C. W. Anderson’s syllabus for his class at CUNY on the history of print culture. Anderson, who is also a a visiting fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and a Knight Media Policy Fellow...

August 19, 2010

The Rise of the Tomato — An Interview with David Gentilcore

While some might say “tomato,” and others “tomahtoe,” the Italians say “Pomodoro!” The tomato is, of course, a staple in Italian food but it was not always that way. As David Gentilcore explains in a recent Boston Globe interview regarding...

August 18, 2010

Hiroshima After Iraq — Rosalyn Deutsche on Political Art

In Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War, Rosalyn Deutsche begins by citing a 2008 article in October that polled a group of “art world intellectuals” about artistic critiques of about the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq....