March 24, 2010

Jonathan Holslag on Chindia

In an interview with Time, Jonathan Holslag, author of China and India: Prospects for Peace discusses some of the existing and potential tensions conflicts that might develop between the two countries. Holslag argues that increased competition between the nations might...

March 23, 2010

Paul Offit: Autism's False Prophets now available in paperback

Paul Offit’s best-selling Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure is now available in paperback with a new preface. While the hardcover was first published in 2008 events have kept the book in the...

March 22, 2010

Roger Hardy on Islamism and why the West gets it wrong

In a recent editorial in the Guardian, Roger Hardy, author of The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam, argues that the West has simplified and misunderstood the nature and motivations of Islamism. Hardy’s editorial and book are based on...

March 19, 2010

Ronald Reagan and General Electric — Thomas Evans

General Electric is currently sponsoring the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration. Regan’s relationship with GE is the subject of Thomas Evans’s recent book The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism,...

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...