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...

August 11, 2020

Zakiya Hanafi on Translating Works of Philosophy

“This is a powerful and paradigm-shifting aesthetics of society, by a great philosophical talent.” ~Simon Critchley, author of Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us It’s the second week of Women in Translation Month! This week’s #WITMONTH feature comes to us from...

August 11, 2020

Video: Larry Cunningham on Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Model

“To truly understand Warren Buffett’s conglomerate, one needs to look beyond the extraordinary numbers and absorb the unique culture of Berkshire Hathaway. Every Berkshire shareholder—or investor of any other company, for that matter—should read Margin of Trust to better understand what makes...

August 11, 2020

New Book Tuesday! A College of Her Own and Common Sense

Our weekly list of new books is now available! A College of Her Own The History of Barnard Robert McCaughey A College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings to the present day. Through...

August 10, 2020

Off the Page: Tania M. Jenkins on Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession

“This empirically rich comparative study shows how the medical profession conceptualizes itself as rewarding talent, all the while structurally organizing itself to reproduce inequalities. These are important insights for understanding the medical profession, and they extend well beyond, to a...

August 10, 2020

Big Tech Sucks at Gaming

By Joost van Dreunen

“Joost van Dreunen’s One Up reflects his many years of experience and makes interesting observations about the games business, offering his unique perspective as a consultant and an academic. His positioning at the intersection between creators, manufacturers, business executives, investors,...

August 9, 2020

ASA Book Giveaway! Measuring Culture

“Measuring Culture is the canonical text we have been waiting for in the sociology of culture. It is a massive achievement that will be the definitive account on the topic for a long time to come. I’ll be thinking with...