February 20, 2019

Gayle Rogers Recasts Langston Hughes as the Reporter-Translator of the Modern Black Experience

We’re continuing our celebration of Black History Month with this guest post by Gayle Rogers, author of Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature. In this post, he discusses complicated American author Langston Hughes’ dilemma in...

February 19, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Nonbinary, Scream, Doing Democracy Differently, And More!

Our list of new books is now available! Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity Edited by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane University of Tokyo Press History of Art in Japan Tsuji Nobuo. Translated by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere Barbara Budrich Publishers...

February 14, 2019

Book Excerpt! Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean, by James Davis (introduction)

“A great read, even for readers who do not know about the Harlem Renaissance and Eric Walrond. The book tells a fascinating and moving story of a literary talent’s demise, or what it takes to nurture and support the literary...

February 13, 2019

James Davis on the History of the Blackface Performance

This week we’re celebrating Black History Month with this guest post by James Davis, author of Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean.  In this post, he discusses the blackface performance. Enter our drawing for a chance to...

February 12, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret, A Year Without Winter, and more!

Our list of new books is now available! Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan New in Paper! The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought Cemil Aydin...

February 11, 2019

In Memory of Joseph Buttigieg, Translator of the Complete Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

  Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame “But to my mind his life’s work was as a Gramsci scholar; he was selflessly devoted to bringing into English the wide-ranging, influential, and absorbing writings of an extraordinary intellectual of the...

February 8, 2019

Book Excerpt! Poetry and Animals, by Onno Oerlemans (introduction)

“Oerlemans interrogates how poetry, as a specific form of writing, “reveals tendrils of meaning about animals that other kinds of writing and thinking do not.” His astonishing close readings of choice examples illuminate how poetry sustains a productive ambiguity and...

February 7, 2019

Marian Schwartz On Translating the Title of The Man Who Couldn’t Die

Today’s #TranslationThursday post comes to us from Marian Schwartz, who translated Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being. In this piece, Schwartz discusses the literary aspects she considered in translating the title from Russian to English. •  • ...

February 6, 2019

Onno Oerlemans on Poetry and Animals

“Onno Oerlemans’s Poetry and Animals represents an important contribution to the scholarship on animals and human-animal relations in literature. We badly need some excellent work on poetry from a human-animal studies perspective, and this book provides a provocative, erudite, thoughtful, and engaging...

February 5, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Post-Fordist Cinema, All the Nations Under Heaven, Political Categories, and more!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Political Categories Thinking Beyond Concepts Michael Marder Post-Fordist Cinema Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture Jeff Menne All the Nations Under Heaven Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York, Revised...

February 1, 2019

An Inner Voice for Those Who Change the World

“You have choices. As a leader making decisions that impact your business, and as a person making decisions that impact your life, you don’t have to be a prisoner of the default and (nearly) automatic ways in which your brain...

January 31, 2019

Book Excerpt! Transatlantic Speculations: Globalization and the Panics of 1873 (chapter 2)

“Bringing economic history and cultural history into the same frame, Davies makes a compelling case for the wider significance of the panics of 1873 in the development of a global consciousness of finance.” ~Peter Knight, University of Manchester Read an...