November 18, 2009

Beliefnet reviews Mark Taylor's "Field Notes from Elsewhere"

On his Beliefnet blog, Dr. Norris Chumley gives a glowing review to Mark C. Taylor’s new book Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living, calling it a “must read,” and Taylor “a mix of philosopher, metaphysician, and medical...

November 17, 2009

Video: Toby Talbot talks about the New Yorker Theater

The following is a video of Toby Talbot discussing her new book The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life in the Movies. The book chronicles Talbot’s legendary movie theater, which during the 60s and 70s brought cutting-edge...

November 16, 2009

Steve Coll on Decoding the New Taliban

In the New Yorker blog, Think Tank , Steve Coll praised Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field, edited by Antonio Giustozzi calling it “an outstanding and important collection.” Coll cites two essays from the collection, one that...

November 13, 2009

More discussion of The Aid Trap

Interest in R. Glenn Hubbard’s The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty continues to grow as evidenced by his recent appearance on CNBC with Maria Bartiromo and a recent and much-discussed Wall Street Journal op-ed. Here is Hubbard discussing...

November 12, 2009

Everyday Ethics and Social Change — An Interview with Anna Peterson

Recently, Religion Dispatches interviewed Anna Peterson about her new book, Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire. Here is the beginning of that interview: Q: What inspired you to write Everyday Ethics and Social Change? What sparked your...

November 12, 2009

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November 11, 2009

The Taliban aren't so tribal

This month the Le Monde Diplomatique Web site has a fascinating podcast interview with Patrick Porter, author of Military Orientalism: Eastern War Through Western Eyes, about his recent article “Culture Wars in Afghanistan.” In the article and interview, Porter, who...

November 10, 2009

Isabella Rossellini joins the Talbots to discuss The New Yorker Theater

The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies by Toby Talbot was just reviewed in The East Hampton Star, which said the book “will certainly appeal to film buffs, to New Yorkers, and to celebrity...

November 10, 2009

A new look at the confinement of Japanese-Americans

In a recent feature on Rorotoko, Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement of America, discusses his new book and how it presents the existence of Japanese internment camps in a more expansive light. Robinson’s new research...

November 9, 2009

Free Books! — Fall Office Cleanup Contest

CONTEST OVER. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS. As you can imagine happens at a book publishing company, we’ve got quite a lot of book lovers working here. And they collect books in their offices — a lot of great books. We’re...

November 6, 2009

Is academic parlance at all capable of saying something meaningful about pain?

We began the week, with a post about Kristiaan Versluys’s interview with American Fiction Notes and now end it with his piece on the Washington Post book blog The Short Stack. Versluys, who is the author of Out of the...

November 5, 2009

Jewish Terrorism in Israel

The recent arrest of Yaakov Teitel for allegedly carrying out a series of domestic acts of terror in Israel is a reminder of the persistent existence of Jewish terrorism. The accusations against Teitel include placing a pipe bomb near Professor...