August 20, 2020

Book Excerpt! “Out of the Laughing Woods,” by Vo Thi Hao

“Long awaited in English, these stories are beautiful, nuanced translations from the Vietnamese side of the America-Vietnam War. One of the best collections I have read from postwar Vietnam, the stories illuminate the country’s darkest period with humor, shock, and...

August 19, 2020

Book Excerpt! Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club, by Terry Williams (introduction)

“Terry Williams has already established himself as a master of gaining access to hard-to-reach, hidden, and vulnerable populations. He has done so again here, giving an in-depth look at a place with which most people will be totally unfamiliar in...

August 19, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Science with Street Value, Creative Industries in Syria, How to Use Exploratory Scenario Planning (XSP) and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! ibidem Press Science with Street Value A Physicist’s Wanderings off the Beaten Track Theodore Modis In his groundbreaking book, Predictions: Society’s Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future, Theodore...

August 18, 2020

Video: Lance Freeman on “What makes Harlem Special?”

 “In A Haven and a Hell, Lance Freeman seeks to amplify the relationship between ‘the ghetto’ as a place, policy, and idea and as a black experience, source of resistance, and community. Using multiple places and narratives, this book...

August 18, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Human Relations Commissions and Global Entanglements of a Man

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Human Relations Commissions Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers examine the history and current efforts of human relations commissions in...

August 18, 2020

Quan Manh Ha on Other Moons

“Unlike much of the large body of fiction from American writers that deals with what the Vietnamese call the “American War,” these stories, most of which are set in rural areas of the country and feature humble characters, focus less...

August 17, 2020

Putting Harlem in its Place

By Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin

“Harlem: race capital, center of black culture, seat of black militancy—or dreamscape? These rigorous, innovative, and bold essays by contemporary scholars confront the myriad ways Harlem signifies and offer fresh, new ways of understanding the aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings...

August 16, 2020

Hubert Harrison: “The Father of Harlem Radicalism”

By Jeffrey B. Perry

“This is a superb study of a neglected but powerfully influential figure in African American history. Jeffrey B. Perry’s scholarship is formidable; his documentation, impeccable; his writing, lucid and graceful. If his promised second volume is as admirable and compelling...

August 13, 2020

Book Excerpt! Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige, by Barbara Carnevali

“Barbara Carnevali’s concept of ‘social aesthetics’ is tremendously powerful, and explains a lot of otherwise baffling phenomena. Carnevali makes me think that the rise of Orban and Trump and the Brexit movement is better understood as a matter of social...

August 12, 2020

Video: The Tulika Story: An Interview with Indira Chandrasekhar

 This month, we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Tulika Books. Watch this interview of Indira Chandrasekhar, the founder, publisher and managing editor of Tulika Books with Frederick F.N. Noronha, which took place in 2010. Chandrasekhar of Tulika Books in New Delhi...

August 12, 2020

Independent Publishing in India – The Story of Tulika Books

25 years of publishing excellence

Tulika (meaning a painter’s brush or writer’s quill in Sanskrit) was a venture started in the late 1980s by Radhika Menon and Indira (Indu) Chandrasekhar. In the early years, besides running a DTP unit providing publishing services, Tulika functioned as...

August 11, 2020

Off the Page: Meghan Elizabeth Kallman on The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps

 “The Death of Idealism confronts the consequences of this void, and makes important contributions to theories of organizations, the history of American volunteering, and the history of the Peace Corps in particular.” ~Nina Eliasoph, author of Making Volunteers: Civic...