September 22, 2009

The business of Africa — Forbes on The Aid Trap

An article to be published in the October 5th issue of Forbes discusses R. Glenn Hubbard (pictured above) and William Duggan’s new book The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty and their proposal for a Marshall Plan for Africa....

September 21, 2009

Interview with Joyce Mendelsohn, author of The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited

Joyce Mendelsohn is the author of  The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood. Question: What are some of the most dramatic changes to the Lower East Side in the last...

September 18, 2009

World Policy reviews Stephen Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives

Perhaps Barack Obama’s decision to scrap the proposed antiballistic shield in Central and Eastern Europe will improve U.S.-Russian relations but as Stephen F. Cohen has argued, much still needs to be done to prevent another Cold War. In his most...

September 17, 2009

Interview with Mark C. Taylor, author of Field Notes from Elsewhere

The following is an interview with Mark Taylor, author of Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Living and Dying and professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. Question:  The book begins with an incredibly...

September 17, 2009

Stephen Prince discusses 9/11 films on NPR

Stephen Prince, author of Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism was recently on On the Media to discuss how filmmakers have taken on the challenge of capturing the truth of the 9/11 attacks. In the interview, Prince discusses...

September 16, 2009

Are two parents better for kids?

In a recently released study Claire Kamp Dush co-author of Marriage and Family: Perspectives and Complexities, challenges the conventional wisdom that two-parent family are always best for children. The advantage that children get from living in two-parent families may actually...

September 15, 2009

Interview with Santiago Zabala, author of The Remains of Being

During the summer and in advance of publication, we posted this interview with Santiago Zabala, author of The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics, on our Web site. Other sites and blogs, including 3 Quarks Daily published it as...

September 14, 2009

Is post-war Greece a model for today's poorest nations?

In The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan argue that a new Marshall Plan is needed for many African nations and other countries mired in poverty. Aid, as it has been doled out...

September 11, 2009

Gastropolis at the Brooklyn Book Festival

The Brooklyn Book Festival, one of the best, most interesting and most fun literary events in New York City is happening on Sunday (September 13.) The event is from 10:00 am to 6 pm in Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza....

September 11, 2009

Two new looks at cinematic and literary representations of 9/11

As Stephen Prince author of Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism points out in a recent interview in Rorotoko, “shortly after the attacks, many people predicted that storytelling … would be changed forever.” Prince’s book explores a range...

September 10, 2009

Richard Nash on The Late Age of Print

In an interesting and appropriate pairing of reviewer and book, the excellent new Web site, The Critical Flame chose Richard Nash to review Ted Striphas’s The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Richard Nash (R_Nash)...

September 9, 2009

The Nature of the Hudson, by Frances Dunwell

Amid the various celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage, we thought we would re-publish Frances F. Dunwell’s essays. Dunwell is the author of The Hudson: America’s River. Frances Dunwell will also be reading and discussing her...