April 2, 2009

William Logan: "The Dirty Harry of the Poetry Beat"

It has almost become of a rite of Spring for publishers to trot out their books of poetry in April for National Poetry Month. Admittedly, we do the same (though we do talk about poetry in other months). We begin...

April 2, 2009

Event Reminders: Julia Kristeva and "The Resilent City: New York Facing Adversity"

For New Yorkers, there are two interesting events featuring Columbia University Press authors tonight: At the New School, Julia Kristeva will be speaking. The event will be at 6:30 and will take place at the Theresa Lang Student Center, 55...

April 1, 2009

Herve This Has a Blog and Web Site

Hervé This, most recently the author of Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism, now has a blog. (Please note: the previous link is for the Google-translated English version. For the original French version, click here.) With the...

March 31, 2009

Mr. Bezos Goes to Lexington — A Post from the Late Age of Print

On his blog The Late Age of Print, Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Culture from Consumerism to Control, discusses Jeff Bezos’s recent decision to spend a week working at an Amazon warehouse in Lexington, Kentucky....

March 31, 2009

Peter Maguire on the Cambodian Genocide Trials

Yesterday, The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) interviewed Peter Maguire, author of Facing Death in Cambodia, about the opening of the Cambodian genocide tribunal. The long-delayed tribunal began with the testimony of the man known as Brother Duch. As Maguire states...

March 30, 2009

Evolutionary Explanations for March Madness

With March Madness coming to a conclusion in the next week and baseball season upon us, we wanted to highlight David P. Barash’s recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Roar of the Crowd: Sport Fans’ Primal Behavior....

March 27, 2009

The Week in Review: University Press News

The last couple of weeks have seen some interesting developments both troubling and interesting. Troubling: The University Missouri of Press recently cut half its staff while the number of poetry readers continues to dwindle. The interesting news includes the continuing...

March 26, 2009

The Israeli Secret Services vs. Terrorism — A Post by Ami Pedahzur

In an article written for Middle East Strategy at Harvard , Ami Pedahzur argues that the resources now being spent on counterterrorism operations should be allocated to other national security needs and that it is time for Israel and other...

March 25, 2009

Rent a Good Book Lately? — A Post from the Late Age of Print

At his blog The Late Age of Print, Ted Striphas author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control, revisits a chapter in publishing history to recount the practice of book rental. Striphas argues that...

March 24, 2009

William Milam on the Importance of Economic Assistance for Pakistan

William Milam, former ambassador to Pakistan and author of Bangladesh and Pakistan: Flirting with Failure in South Asia, recently testified about Pakistan before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Milam was joined by Steven Coll, author of Ghost...

March 23, 2009

Ann Florini on Global Governance

Last month Ethics and International Affairs, a publication of The Carnegie Council interviewed Ann Florini, editor of The Right to Know Transparency for an Open World, about issues relating to global governance. The Carnegie Council has now made available video...

March 20, 2009

Tibet and China: The Past in the Present — Tsering Shakya in Open Democracy

In commemoration of the events of 1959, the Chinese government recently announced the creation of “Serf Liberation Day” to celebrates China’s “liberation” of Tibet from the evils of the oppressive Tibet’s former rulers. In an article published yesterday in Open...