April 16, 2010

Donald Keene interviewed by Japan Times

Donald Keene’s recently published So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers represents the latest in the scholar’s influential oeuvre in Japanese literature and culture. In the book, Keene weaves archival materials together with personal reflections...

April 15, 2010

Sophie Richardson on the Chinese Earthquake

In her article How Not to Respond to an Earthquake, published on the Daily Beast, Sophie Richardson, author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, looks at how the Chinese government could best respond to the recent...

April 14, 2010

Sylvia Beach writes to William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore

With April being National Poetry Month and with the recent publication of The Letters of Sylvia Beach, we thought we would post some of Beach’s letters to some of the most important modernist poets. (To read more of Beach’s letters...

April 13, 2010

Ken Posner on Fannie and Freddie

Ken Posner, author of of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, recently appeared on Yahoo Finance’s Tech Ticker to discuss among other things about how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to...

April 12, 2010

Avner Cohen and Joseph Cirincione on the Nuclear Summit

The historic two-day nuclear summit is getting underway in Washington but not without a few, if not many, questions hanging over the event. One of the most controversial developments in the days leading up to the meeting was Benjamin Netanyahu’s...

April 9, 2010

Guobin Yang on the China-Google Spat

In an interesting article for Yale Global, Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, downplays some of the hyperbole that has been used to characterize the dispute between Google and China. Yang argues...

April 8, 2010

The Mutual Fund Industry — an interview with the authors

The Mutual Fund Industry: Competition and Investor Welfare, by R. Glenn Hubbard, Michael F. Koehn, Stanley Ornstein, Marc Van Audenrode, and Jimmy Royer, was recently published by Columbia Business School Publishing. The following is an interview with Stanley Ornstein and...

April 7, 2010

The Late Age of Print Open Source Audio Project

Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control, has launched an inventive and exciting new project in connection with his book. He is putting together a crowd-sourced production of a text-to-speech audiobook...

April 6, 2010

Alexis Dudden: Japan, Korea, Abductions, and a Tangled History

As Alexis Dudden points out in her fascinating article in Japan Focus, 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Japan’s takeover of Korea. Dudden, author of Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States, reveals the ways in which this...

April 5, 2010

Jacob Hacker on health care reform

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Web site has an interview with Jacob Hacker, editor of Health at Risk: America’s Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It about the passage of the health care bill. Hacker, who is considered to...

April 2, 2010

Edward Hess talks about Smart Growth on Business Insider, Part 2

In the first part of his interview with Business Insider , Edward Hess the author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing Risks, questioned the conventional view that growth is necessarily good for business. In the second half...

April 1, 2010

Jonathan Gottschall on science, evolution, and the next big thing in English

An article in today’s New York Times looks at the ways in which literary scholars are drawing on science to understand individual texts as well as to understand such questions as “Why do we read fiction? Why do we care...