April 17, 2019

Q&A: Hunter Vaughan on Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret

“In Vaughan’s deft readings of multiple films and their production apparatuses, film theory and analysis also become “updated” into a cutting-edge discipline. Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an essential book in ecocinema and ecomedia studies and an important contribution to ecomaterialism within cultural...

April 16, 2019

Book Excerpt! Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

“Logan’s ear can be superb, and when he’s on charitable form, he can teach any reader to hear better.” ~ Cal Revely-Calder, Times Literary Supplement An Excerpt From Chapter 8: Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues...

April 16, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage; City of Workers, City of Struggle; Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution and More!

Our list of new books is now available! Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage Two Novels by Yuz Aleshkovsky, translated by Duffield White, edited by Susanne Fusso City of Workers, City of Struggle How Labor Movements Changed New York Edited by Joshua...

April 15, 2019

A Gilded Hollywood: The Dirty Truth Behind its Silver Screen

“Hunter Vaughan’s forensic accounting uncovers Hollywood’s secretly unpaid debts to the environment, demonstrating ecocriticism’s power to connect political economy to movies’ themes and styles, for analysis and for future makers. More than compelling: entertaining and inspiring.” ~ Sean Cubitt, author...

April 12, 2019

Book Excerpt! Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age (introduction)

“Thick and Dazzling Darkness undertakes the daunting task of exploring spirituality (qua poetry) in a way that connects such otherwise dissimilar poets as the self-consciously backward-looking Robinson Jeffers, the peculiarly American modernism of Robert Duncan, and the (at)tendent postmodernism of Fanny...

April 11, 2019

Onno Oerlemans on the Poetry of Pets

In conjunction with National Pet Day, today’s National Poetry Month post comes from an excerpt of Onno Oerlemans’ Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human. In chapter 4 “The Individual Animal in Poetry,” Oerlemans discusses the poet’s challenge of conveying a meaningful experiences...

April 10, 2019

Book Excerpt and Reviews! The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism

“Woodhouse deftly brings together the intellectual history of the many threads of American environmentalism with the thinkers, the activists, the organizations, and the issues that have charged environmental politics since the 1960s. Required reading for anyone with a serious interest...

April 9, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature (preface)

“A major achievement. With wit and erudition, Hamid Dabashi has pushed open one of the great locked doors of world literature: the Shahnameh. In bringing the central work of Persian literature vividly to life, he also offers us a new way...

April 9, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Reassembling Motherhood, Nostalgia for the Future, The Informal Economy, And More!

Our list of new books is now available! Emancipation After Hegel Achieving a Contradictory Revolution Todd McGowan Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes 50 Years of Earth-Shaking Events Lynn R. Sykes The Designing for Growth Field Book A Step-by-Step Project Guide,...

April 8, 2019

Media Roundup: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

“In often witty and humorous language, Timothy Morton provides a kind of affective atlas for the human era. The book calls for scholars to recognize the structures of entwinement between (the human) species and ecological phenomena and to develop modes...

April 5, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation

“The central ethical question addressed by Minteer is not only how far we might go to prevent biological extinction but also how far should we go. He comes to this conundrum as a distinguished environmental philosopher with a broad and...

April 5, 2019

Media Roundup: Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters

“Ghalib is the first ample and compact introduction to the Urdu oeuvre of the last great ‘Mughal’ poet of India. It fills a long-felt lacuna, and does so admirably well. The translators have provided all that a reader might need to...