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...

May 5, 2009

Siddharth Kara on the Take Part Blog

Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, has begun writing for the new social activism Web site and blog Take Part. In an ongoing series of blogs, Kara will provide detailed information on why the...

May 5, 2009

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality Receives a Macavity Award Nomination

Congratulations to Leonard Cassuto, author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, for receiving a Macavity award nomination in the category of Best Nonfiction/Critical book. The Macavity awards are selected by Mystery Readers International. Hard-Boiled Sentimentality was...

May 1, 2009

Mark Taylor in the New York Times and His Forthcoming Book

Mark C. Taylor’s recent New York Times Op-ed, End the University as We Know It continues to be one of the most popular stories on the NYT Web site and has been widely discussed on the Internet. (The University of...

May 1, 2009

Buy Indie Day!

May 1st has been declared Buy Indie Day. The idea: buy one book—paperback, hardcover, audiobook, whatever you want (it doesn’t even have to be a Columbia University Press title)—at an independent bookstore near you. There are tons of great independent...

May 1, 2009

David Bordwell on Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The noted film scholar and critic David Bordwell recently featured the book Apichatpong Weerasethakul, edited by James Quandt on his Web site (scroll down a bit for the review of the book.) Apichatpong Weerasethakul is first English language study of...

April 30, 2009

Joseph Kip Kosek at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has recently posted a video of Joseph Kip Kosek discussing his recent book Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy. Here is a description of the talk from the Library of Congress: According to...

April 30, 2009

Farzana Shaikh: The Vacuum That Rules Pakistan

Farzana Shaikh, author of the forthcoming Making Sense of Pakistan, recently argued in a recent op-ed in The Independent that “there is now an almost fateful inevitability that a major terrorist attack in the UK will carry a Pakistani imprint.”...

April 29, 2009

The Quarterly Conversation Reviews The Late Age of Print & The Late Age of Print on "Amazonfail"

Two worthwhile items relating to Ted Striphas’s The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control: A few weeks ago Scott Esposito, published an interview with Ted Striphas and has now followed that up with a review...