May 19, 2009

Authors of Between Ocean and City answer questions about Rockaway

This week on the New York Times City Room blog, Lawrence and Carol P. Kaplan, the authors of Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York, will be answering questions about the history of this once popular seaside...

May 15, 2009

Obama at Notre Dame: We Catholics Would Rather Fight than Mourn

The following post is by Marian Ronan, Research Professor of Catholic Studies at the Center for World Christianity at New York Theological Seminary (NYC) and the author of Tracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of...

May 15, 2009

eats.com reviews Herve This's Building a Meal

The Web site eats.com recently reviewed and praised Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism, by Herve This. In addition to commenting on This’s wonderful writing and his ability to make science accessible, the review also highlights his...

May 14, 2009

Interview with Marian Ronan, author of Tracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of American Catholicism

Marian Ronan is the author of Tracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of American Catholicism . This interview originally appeared in EqualwRites (EwR) EwR: Can we begin by asking the significance of its title, Tracing...

May 13, 2009

Interview with Houston Baker

Voxunion.com has just posted an interview on WPFW with Houston Baker, author of Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. In the interview, Baker discusses the ways leading Black intellectuals such as Michael Eric...

May 12, 2009

Israel and the Bomb

Last week both Andrew Sullivan, in a post on his blog on the Atlantic, and Stephen Walt, writing for his blog on Foreign Policy blog, considered Israel’s denial of having a nuclear arsenal. Sullivan wondered why the United States pretends...

May 12, 2009

The Buddha Diaries Reviews Mind in the Balance

The Buddha Diaries recently reviewed Alan Wallace’s Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. Here’s a brief excerpt from the review: Exploring, first, the long history of religious meditation practice in both East and West from its...

May 11, 2009

Asia Times on Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

Surviving North Korea’s House of the Dead, from today’s Asia Times Online, discusses the forthcoming Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor by Kim Yong and Kim Suk-Young. The article discusses Kim Yong’s extraordinary account of being...

May 11, 2009

Gastropolis in Reading New York

The New York Times featured Gastropolis: Food and New York City, edited by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, in their roundup of New York City books and gave special praise for the book’s delightful cover (see right). From the article:...

May 8, 2009

Columbia University Press to move fulfillment to Perseus and accelerate digital delivery

Columbia University Press announced a plan to close its warehouse facility in Irvington, NY in the summer of 2009 and outsource its fulfillment operations to Perseus Distribution, a division of Perseus Book Group. This restructuring is part of an overall...

May 8, 2009

Antonio Giustozzi on the Neo-Taliban

Monthly Review recently posted an interview with Antonio Giustozzi, author of Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan. In the interview, Giustozzi details some of the ways in which the Neo-Taliban differs from the Taliban regime, which was...

May 8, 2009

The Columbia Journalism Review interviews Jameel Jaffer

The Columbia Journalism Review (no affiliation with the press), recently interviewed Jameel Jaffer, co-author of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. In the interview Jaffer explains the difficult and often circuitous routes the...