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...

September 8, 2009

R. Glenn Hubbard on The Aid Trap

Here is our book trailer with R. Glenn Hubbard, co-author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty:

September 4, 2009

Mother Nature Network reviews Climate Change, by Edmond Mathez

Titled “A (much needed) climate change bible,” the Mother Nature Network’s review of Edmond Mathez’s Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, extols the virtues of the book for both general readers and students. The reviewer...

September 3, 2009

David Harvey's newest reviewed in Bookforum

The Fall issue of Bookforum, now available online, includes Scott McLemee’s review of David Harvey’s Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom. In an intriguing move, McLemee situates Harvey’s work between the cosmopolitanism of Kant’s and that of Thomas Friedman, the...

September 2, 2009

Mark C. Taylor on college majors: are they a thing of the past?

This spring, Mark Taylor’s New York Times op-ed, “End the University as We Know It,” in which he referred to graduate education as the “Detroit of higher learning,” engendered a great deal of debate and a fair amount of anger...

September 1, 2009

On Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry’s The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century is now available. The excitement and interest about a new work from Berry is of course tempered by the sadness of his death earlier this summer. Mary...

September 1, 2009

Another side of William Logan

Much is made of William Logan’s more acerbic side. He has been called “The Dirty Harry of the Poetry Beat” and “The Most Hated Man in American Poetry” and has become well known for his sharp, biting takedowns of such...

August 31, 2009

R. Glenn Hubbard on Obama's health care policy

Bill Clinton’s failed attempt at health care reform is frequently cited as an example from which Obama can learn from as he tries to pass his own health care reform. In a New York Times op-ed, R. Glenn Hubbard, former...

August 28, 2009

Dr. Paul Offit on Dateline this Sunday

This Sunday at 7 pm Dateline will have a special program on the vaccine “controversy.” The program will include Matt Lauer’s talk with Dr. Paul Offit, author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a...