May 23, 2008

Memorial Day Post: An Interview with Michael Sledge, author of Soldier Dead

This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day, the annual holiday to remember United States soldiers who have died in combat. In his book, Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen, Michael Sledge explores what happens to...

May 22, 2008

Wellek Library Lectures

Even as academics and scholars start to get ready for their summer break, there is still much anticipation and excitement about the Wellek Library Lectures series, which is going on this week. Held annually since 1981 at the Critical Theory...

May 21, 2008

Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez and his role in the Administration of Torture

In his review of Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez’s new book Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story, Scott McLemee of Bloomberg.com notes that the former head of coalition forces in Iraq offers a similar message found in other books about how...

May 20, 2008

Award News: Rebecca Walkowitz for Cosmopolitan Style

We here at the Press continue to be committed to publishing exciting new monographs and first books by up-and-coming scholars, so it always good when of those works and their authors get their due. At the recent International Conference on...

May 19, 2008

The Nakba: An Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod

Der Spiegel recently interviewed Lila Abu-Lughod, coeditor of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory about the 60th anniversary of the the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948. Here is an excerpt from the interview: Lila Abu-Lughod:...

May 16, 2008

An Interview with Houston Baker in Diverse Magazine

Interest in Houston Baker’s Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Movement continues as evidenced by the interview he gave to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. You can hear or read the interview. In the...

May 15, 2008

The Importance of Ernst Tugendhat: An Interview with Santiago Zabala

Ernst Tugendhat, has become in the words of Richard Rorty, a philosopher, who “built bridges between continents and between centuries.” Admirers of Tugendhat, Rorty among them, point to his ability to move beyond the continental/analytic divide that has characterized and...

May 14, 2008

The North Korean Food Crisis – Again

In a recent event at the Peterson Institute for International Economics , Marcus Noland, co-author of Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform, spoke about the dire prospects of a food crisis in the reclusive North Korean state. Both...

May 13, 2008

Translating Sorrow: An Interview with Michael Berry

We know it must seem like we’re posting a lot about The Song of Everlasting Sorrow but we’re not the only ones excited about the book: Francine Prose praised the book in the New York Times Book Review and PRI’s...

May 12, 2008

Cynthia Ozick on Lionel Trilling

The New Republic has posted an article by Cynthia Ozick on Lionel Trilling on its Web site. In the piece, Ozick explores the impact of Trilling as a critic, his reception as a novelist, and the first-time publication of The...

May 9, 2008

Keith Woods on How the Media Has Covered Race in the Presidential Campaign

Earlier this week, Keith Woods, coauthor of The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity, appeared on the Newshour to discuss how the media has covered and talked about the issue of race in this year’s presidential race....

May 8, 2008

The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Nakba: A Posting by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod

Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod are the editors of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. Across the world, people are marking the sixtieth anniversary of the Palestinian’s “nakba” (catastrophe). The Palestine/ Israel conflict has occupied center stage...