March 18, 2010

Catherine Malabou: Heir to Heidegger, Hegel, and Derrida?

Rather than having to wait a year or more for reviews of scholarly books, the Web has allowed for more immediate attention and discussion of scholarly books to emerge in a more shorter time. For instance, Catherine Malabou’s Plasticity at...

March 17, 2010

Sylvia Beach, editor and letter-writer

Think about a book you’ve read over and over. You may have turned to it for advice, or chuckled at an inadvertent reference. You know that book backwards and forwards. Now stop and try to think of who the editor...

March 16, 2010

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March 15, 2010

Edward Hess on Smart Growth

Edward Hess discusses his new book Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth. For more on the book, you can also read an interview in which Hess challenges conventional thinking regarding growth and business. From...

March 12, 2010

My Life with the Taliban video and NYT interview

The New York Times blog At War recently interviewed Felix Kuehn and Alex Strick van Linschoten, editors of My Life with the Taliban, the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former senior member of Afghanistan’s Taliban and a principal actor...

March 11, 2010

Siobhan Phillips: "Poems and Everyday Reading"

The following post is by Siobhan Phillips author of The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse. When I wrote The Poetics of the Everyday, I wanted to learn how quotidian experience could foster rather than frustrate...

March 9, 2010

Billy Collins and David Allen Sibley discuss Bright Wings

In anticipation of tomorrow’s reading from Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds the American Museum of Natural History, the museum’s Web site has posted interviews with the book’s editor Billy Collins and illustrator David Allen Sibley. Collins...

March 8, 2010

The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor

While discussion of Kathryn Bigelow’s work is sure to grow following last night’s win at the Oscars, currently one of the few books to give serious consideration to her films is The Cinema of of Kathryn Bigelow, edited by Deborah...

March 5, 2010

The Basement Boys: George Will on Gary Cross's Men to Boys

It’s not every day that a prominent conservative columnist discusses a university press book, so it is worth mentioning the lengthy references by George Will in his Newsweek column to Gary Cross’s Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity....

March 3, 2010

Need the right quote? There's an app for that!

The Columbia World of Quotations is now available as app for the iPhone, and features 65,000 quotations by more than 5,000 authors covering 3,000 years—from Bella Abzug to Frank Zappa and Galileo to Themistocles. The application is based on an...

March 2, 2010

Is film criticsm dead? Thomas Doherty weighs in.

“‘It sucks,’ decrees an Internet movie critic, sharing the most common aesthetic reaction in contemporary film criticism. In the viral salon of bloggers and chat-roomers, the finely tuned turns of phrase crafted by an earlier generation of sharp-eyed cinema scribes...

March 1, 2010

How Untouchables are changing the face of Indian literature

“What we’re doing is creating a new history of India that’s not in the textbooks.”—Omprakash Valmiki, author of Joothan: An Untouchable’s Life. The above quote comes from a recent interview with Valmiki published in an article from the Wall Street...