December 20, 2018

Book Excerpt! Emil Draitser’s Introduction to Redemption by Friedrich Gorenstein

Today, we are featuring Emil Draitser’s introduction to Friedrich Gorenstein’s novel Redemption, a major addition to the canon of literature bearing witness to the Holocaust, translated by Andrew Bromfield and published in the Russian Library series. Enter our drawing for...

December 19, 2018

Is Friedrich Gorenstein’s Redemption a Holocaust novel?

“Set immediately after World War II in a Soviet town emerging from German occupation, Friedrich Gorenstein’s Redemption is a small masterpiece of post-Holocaust fiction.” ~ Val Vinokur, The New School This week we are featuring Redemption, by Friedrich Gorenstein and translated by Andrew...

December 19, 2018

“The Ride of the Valkyries,” a book excerpt from A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945, by Ernst Jünger

Only two days left to win a copy of A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945. To inspire you to enter, we are featuring “The Ride of the Valkyries,” an excerpt from historian Elliot Neaman’s foreword to...

December 18, 2018

New Book Tuesday! My Brilliant Friends, Alan Brinkley, Taming the Wild Horse, and More

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! The Man Who Couldn’t Die The Tale of an Authentic Human Being Olga Slavnikova, translated by Marian Schwartz Alan Brinkley A Life in History Edited by David Greenberg, Moshik Temkin, and...

December 17, 2018

A Video Tribute to 30 Years of Gender and the Politics of History, by Joan Wallach Scott

In October 2018, the Department of History at Simon Fraser University invited Joan Wallach Scott to give a public lecture in Vancouver, Canada. In the months leading up to the visit, Roxanne Panchasi, an Associate Professor of History at SFU...

December 13, 2018

Lance Freeman on A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America

 “A Haven and a Hell is a highly-accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban Black America.” ~Marcus Anthony Hunter, coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life Today we are featuring a guest post from Lance...

December 12, 2018

Book Excerpt! The Stigma Effect (preface)

“The strength of this book is the way it balances the interconnected components of self-stigma and public stigma, with equally strong treatment of both. It will be of interest to people interested or involved in stigma reduction, either as advocates,...

December 11, 2018

Q&A: Patrick Corrigan on The Stigma Effect

“How do we, as a society, reduce stigmatization of the seriously mentally ill? As Patrick Corrigan persuasively argues in this thorough inquiry into the subject, we should listen to their stories, for then we will discover fellow human beings, and...

December 11, 2018

New Book Tuesday! The Wise Advocate, The Handsome Monk and Other Stories, Postcolonial Theory, and More

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Save 30% on these new titles and more through December 31 with coupon code: Holiday2018 The Wise Advocate The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership Art Kleiner, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Josie Thomson...

December 7, 2018

Book Excerpt! Politics Recovered, edited by Matt Sleat (introduction)

“Politics Recovered is an impressive collection of original essays that constitutes a major contribution to the growing literature on political realism; an important and increasingly influential development in contemporary political theory.” ~ John Horton, Keele University •  •  •  • ...

December 6, 2018

The Role of Politics: A Word From Matt Sleat

“Our actual political institutions or experience should not contaminate the moral or philosophical purity of our political theories.” ~ Matt Sleat Today, we are graced with a guest post from Matt Sleat who edited Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory...

December 5, 2018

Book Excerpt! Journalism Under Fire, by Stephen Gillers (introduction)

“Gillers expertly weaves together legal texts, public policy, and normative theory to shed new light on the Press Clause, which, as the work makes clear, has been largely abandoned by the Supreme Court in recent years. The book develops a...