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December 3, 2008

A New Type of Human Being and Who We Really Are — Robert Hullot-Kentor in The Brooklyn Rail

The title to Robert Hullot Kentor’s essay in the Brooklyn Rail comes from an unfinished 1941 essay by Theodor Adorno. Hullot-Kentor, who is the author of Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno, argues that the “New Type...

December 2, 2008

Learning from the Mumbai Tragedy — An Op-ed from Rohan Gunaratna

“Without building a robust relationship with Pakistan, India has been strengthening its cooperation with Israel and the U.S. As the regional power, India must take the lead and reach out to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka and share counter...

December 2, 2008

Columbia University Press Author Events for December

If you are looking for stimulating, lively and low-cost / free events this Holiday season, look no further than the various December events with Columbia University Press authors. Events include Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis discussing their book, The Measure...

December 1, 2008

Did Britain Just Sell Tibet? — An Op-ed from Robert Barnett

“Britain’s concession could be China’s most significant achievement on Tibet since American support for Tibetan guerillas was ended before Nixon’s visit to Beijing. Including China in global decision-making is welcome, but Western powers should not rewrite history to get support...

November 26, 2008

Holiday Cooking in New York City — A Post by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch

The following post is by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, the editors of Gastropolis: Food and New York City. You can join the editors and contributors of Gastropolis next Friday, December 5th at 6:30pm at the Astor Center for an...

November 26, 2008

SALES!

For those looking to shop for themselves or for others, we are offering discounts on titles in a variety of subjects. Click on the links below to find out more about sales in the following areas. Some of the sales...

November 25, 2008

Philosophy in Turbulent Times Reviewed in the London Review of Books

Elif Batuman offers a very interesting and spirited review of Elisabeth Roudinesco’s Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida in the London Review of Books. In the review Batuman considers Roudinesco’s unique take on each thinker...

November 25, 2008

What the Pilgrims Really Thought About Turkey

Though originally published a few years ago, we thought it appropriate to look again at James McWilliams’s New York Times Op-ed, “They Held Their Noses and Ate.” As is perhaps evident from the title, what we now recognize as the...

November 24, 2008

Leonard Cassuto on Patricia Highsmith

Friday’s Wall Street Journal included Leonard Cassuto’s essay “Bound for Perdition: Highsmith’s ‘Strangers on a Train’ is Fueled by Anxiety.” In the piece Cassuto describes how Highsmith tapped into Cold War anxiety to create such a compelling novel. As in...

November 21, 2008

What Can Be Learned from The Great Depression — A Post by Frederick Douglass Opie.

The following post is from Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America. After the further unraveling of the global economy in October of 2008, the jobless numbers will be much higher. In response,...

November 20, 2008

Writing Hubert Harrison — A Post by Jeffrey Perry

The following post is by Jeffrey B. Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. You can also read his previous post “Who Was Hubert Harrison?”. Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 is the first...

November 19, 2008

"Just like smoking and diabetes, lack of health insurance is an early death sentence." — Sarah Burd-Sharps

This post’s headline is taken from a quote by Sarah Burd-Sharps’s in a Boston Globe editorial on the health care challenges facing Barack Obama’s incoming administration. Burd-Sharps is the co-author of The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009,...

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