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,...

November 18, 2008

Big Apple or Stale Bagel? Test Your Knowledge of New York City Food

How much of a foodie are you? Test your knowledge of New York City cuisine, both past and present, with a quiz based on the newly published Gastropolis: Food and New York City. Are you a Big Apple or a...

November 14, 2008

Meet Fran Dunwell author of The Hudson: America's River at Two Upcoming Events!

Join author Frances Dunwell for an inspiring lecture about the transformative role of the Hudson River in American history and culture — how its unique geography, scenic beauty, and culture of entrepreneurship have influenced the shaping of Manhattan, given rise...

November 13, 2008

Black Familial Mourning and Local Presidents: An Election Chronicle, by Houston Baker

The following essay is by Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University and author the recently published Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. “A week of rest and reflection has sobered...

November 12, 2008

Jerelle Kraus in Richard Nixon's Office

Jerelle Kraus is the former art director at the New York Times and her new book reveals the inner workings of the Times from the creation of the art for the Op-ed section to the decisions by Howell Raines and...