July 20, 2010

Siddharth Kara on the Trail of Human Trafficking

Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (now available in paper), has begun a weekly column for CNN.com that will document his trip around South Asia, looking at issues of forced labor, trafficking, and child...

July 19, 2010

Interview with Gary Cross, author of Men to Boys (now available in paper!)

Gary Cross’s bestselling cultural history Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity is now available in paperback. Here is an interview we conducted with him when the book was first published. Question: Why did you write a book about...

July 16, 2010

The Economist Reviews Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

The Economist reviewed John Calvert’s new book Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism, calling it a “rich and carefully researched biography [that] sets Qutb for the first time in his Egyptian context, rescuing him from caricature without whitewashing...

July 15, 2010

The Editors of Gastropolis on the Perfect NYC Summer Meal

With summer fully upon us and with the recent publication of Gastropolis: Food and New York City, we were reminded of an interview on Serious Eats with the editors of the book, Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch. The authors were...

July 14, 2010

A Chronology of George Steinbrenner

With yesterday’s news of George Steinbrenner’s death, we thought we would highlight some of the highlights (and lowlights) from his remarkable run as owner of the New York Yankees. The dates and events are taken from The Greater New York...

July 13, 2010

John Major on translating the Chinese classic Huainanzi

In a recent guest post on Frog In A Well John Major, one of the translators of the recently published Huainanzi, a classic Han dynasty work on statecraft and philosophy, talks about the process and difficulties of translation. One of...

July 12, 2010

William M. Klepper on tough love between Corporate Boards and CEOs

William Klepper, author of The CEO’S Boss: Tough Love in the Boardroom, recently posted an article on Boardmember.com on how corporate boards can better improve their relationships with their business’s CEO through tough love. In the article Klepper explains that...

July 9, 2010

"New York is the most Latin American city in the world."

The above quote from a Daily News article is from Claudio Remeseira, editor of Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook. The article which calls the book “an imposing testimony to the sheer vibrancy of the city’s Hispanic community,” describes the book...

July 8, 2010

Avner Cohen on Israel's "Secret" Nuclear Arsenal

Earlier this week, NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed Avner Cohen author of the forthcoming The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb. In the interview Cohen discusses Israel’s policy to never publicly acknowledge that it has possession of nuclear weapons....

July 7, 2010

Zizek on Hegel

“The time of Hegel still lies ahead – Hegel’s century will be the XXIst.”—Slavoj Zizek The Web site Objet Petit A offers a sneak preview of the forthcoming 2011 book Hegel and the Infinite by publishing Slavoj Zizek’s preface, “Hegel’s...

July 6, 2010

Psyched Out — A Review of Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives

Scott McLemee’s recent review of Francois Dosse’s Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives in Bookforum (registration req’d but it’s free!) praises the joint biography for making the academicized Deleuze “mysterious again.” The review also looks at the biography in...

July 2, 2010

Michael Mauboussin on the Big Think

Michael Mauboussin, author of More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded), was recently featured on Big Think. In the interview, Mauboussin, who is also the Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management, argues...