January 29, 2009

Siddarth Kara Discusses Sex Trafficking on Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal

In another fascinating interview, Siddarth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery discusses why sex trafficking is flourishing, explains what steps can be taken to curtail it, and his own experiences talking with former and current...

January 29, 2009

Obama Reading Recommendations for China

It seems as if everyone has reading recommendations for President Obama and earlier this week Pankaj Mishra weighed in on the subject at The China Beat. One of Mishra’s recommendations was I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China by...

January 28, 2009

Why Israel Has Failed to Stop Terrorism.

Yesterday, we ran an interview with Ami Pedahzur about his new book The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. In the interview, Pedahzur explores why Israel has failed to stop terrorism despite the amount of resources it has...

January 28, 2009

How University Presses Are Surviving the Economic Downturn

In the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard examines how university presses are faring in the grim economic atmosphere—things are not so good but they’re not so bad either. While some presses have had layoffs and...

January 27, 2009

Interview with Ami Pedahzur

The following is an interview with Ami Pedahuzur, author of The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. Q: Have you ever worked for the Mossad or any other intelligence agency? Ami Pedahzur: No. never. I was a senior...

January 27, 2009

University Presses and Fiction in Translation

Earlier this morning, Three Percent listed the finalists for the best translated books of 2008 for fiction and poetry. In the past year or so, Three Percent has established itself as one of the premier sites for reviews, news, and...

January 26, 2009

Siddharth Kara at the Carnegie Council and in the Financial Times

Over the weekend, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, by Siddharth Kara was reviewed in the Financial Times. In the very favorable review, Jonathan Birchall writes: In India, [Kara] argues a bungalow brothel makes an average of $12,926...

January 26, 2009

Seth Lerer Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Congratulations to Seth Lerer on being nominated for an NBCC Award in the category of Criticism for his book, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter.

January 23, 2009

Jameel Jaffer on Rachel Maddow

Jameel Jaffer, coauthor of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond, was on the Rachel Maddow Show yesterday to discuss the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention center.

January 23, 2009

University Press News

It was not the best week for university press publishing with layoffs announced at Oxford University Press and the report from the AAUP about declining sales. However, and needless to say, great books continue to be published by university presses....

January 23, 2009

Paul Offit in Huffington Post

Paul Offit’s article in the Huffington Post has already garnered a lot of attention and responses. In the post, Offit points to the outbreaks of measles and other diseases that have resulted from parents not vaccinating their children due to...

January 22, 2009

The End of Black History? — By Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn are the co-editors of The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 Some pundits have predicted that Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States spells the end of...