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May 13, 2009

Interview with Houston Baker

Voxunion.com has just posted an interview on WPFW with Houston Baker, author of Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. In the interview, Baker discusses the ways leading Black intellectuals such as Michael Eric...

May 12, 2009

Israel and the Bomb

Last week both Andrew Sullivan, in a post on his blog on the Atlantic, and Stephen Walt, writing for his blog on Foreign Policy blog, considered Israel’s denial of having a nuclear arsenal. Sullivan wondered why the United States pretends...

May 12, 2009

The Buddha Diaries Reviews Mind in the Balance

The Buddha Diaries recently reviewed Alan Wallace’s Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. Here’s a brief excerpt from the review: Exploring, first, the long history of religious meditation practice in both East and West from its...

May 11, 2009

Asia Times on Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

Surviving North Korea’s House of the Dead, from today’s Asia Times Online, discusses the forthcoming Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor by Kim Yong and Kim Suk-Young. The article discusses Kim Yong’s extraordinary account of being...

May 11, 2009

Gastropolis in Reading New York

The New York Times featured Gastropolis: Food and New York City, edited by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, in their roundup of New York City books and gave special praise for the book’s delightful cover (see right). From the article:...

May 8, 2009

Columbia University Press to move fulfillment to Perseus and accelerate digital delivery

Columbia University Press announced a plan to close its warehouse facility in Irvington, NY in the summer of 2009 and outsource its fulfillment operations to Perseus Distribution, a division of Perseus Book Group. This restructuring is part of an overall...

May 8, 2009

Antonio Giustozzi on the Neo-Taliban

Monthly Review recently posted an interview with Antonio Giustozzi, author of Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan. In the interview, Giustozzi details some of the ways in which the Neo-Taliban differs from the Taliban regime, which was...

May 8, 2009

The Columbia Journalism Review interviews Jameel Jaffer

The Columbia Journalism Review (no affiliation with the press), recently interviewed Jameel Jaffer, co-author of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. In the interview Jaffer explains the difficult and often circuitous routes the...

May 7, 2009

Interview with Mitchell Orenstein, editor of Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk

The following is an interview with Mitchell A. Orenstein, editor of Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk. Q: Is Social Security going to be there when I retire? Mitchell Orenstein: Surprisingly, the answer is yes. After years of...

May 7, 2009

Hubert Harrison as book reviewer

Scott McLemee’s piece on the Columbia Journalism Review Web site explores Hubert Harrison’s role as a book reviewer and critic. Harrison is of course the subject of Jeffrey Perry’s new biography, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, which...

May 6, 2009

Reading film in China

Earlier this week on Book Bench, the New Yorker‘s blog on books, Evan Osnos recommended some books that might serve as an introduction to filmmaking in China. We were pleased to see that he mentioned Michael Berry’s Speaking in Images:...

May 5, 2009

Siddharth Kara on KPFA Radio

For more on Siddharth Kara’s Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, you can also listen to a recent interview with KPFA radio in Berkeley, California: APEX Espress – Sex Trafficking – April 30, 2009 at 7:00pmClick to listen...

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