January 10, 2021

Video: Eric Hayot in Conversation with Paul Saint-Amour about Humanist Reason

 “[Humanist Reason] is not another anxious apology or resentful jeremiad about the decline of the humanities. This is a confident and liberating gift that shows us how and why to practice humanist reason now.” —Chad Wellmon, coauthor of Permanent...

January 8, 2021

Video: Four Reasons to Reread A Visit from the Goon Squad

 “A brilliant investigation … Ivan Kreilkamp is a music critic as well as a literary scholar, versed in both Middlemarch and Minor Threat, so he brings revelatory insight into Egan’s punk-inspired story of time lost and time regained.” —Rob...

January 5, 2021

Video: Mark Blyth on Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy

“With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humor, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To...

January 3, 2021

Video: Prices and Decentralization Without Convexity

“This groundbreaking book of practical economic theory by Milgrom, the world’s most accomplished designer of complex auctions, describes the design of the most complex auction yet: the FCC incentive auction for electromagnetic spectrum. The book also illuminates why the magic...

December 9, 2020

Video: Mark C. Taylor Reads from His New Book, Intervolution: Smart Bodies Smart Things

 “Intervolution is at once informative and thought-provoking—a fascinating exploration of the ever-narrowing gap between men and machines. Mark C. Taylor uses his own experience of chronic illness to probe some of the central questions of our time.” ~Elizabeth Kolbert,...

December 5, 2020

Video: Michael Alexander on the Origins of Making Peace with the Universe

 “What happens when worlds fall apart? It’s a question that so many of us have asked ourselves in times of crisis. The marvel of Michael Scott Alexander’s book is that he has transformed his own search into a discovery...

December 2, 2020

Video: Introducing Ms. Donna Haskins and Take Back What the Devil Stole

 “Like Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, this study of an impossibly ordinary life grabs you and refuses to let go, even as it offers new insights into a hidden spiritual world.” Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals...

October 25, 2020

Video: Matthew Hart Introduces Extraterritorial

 “A fascinating book about why the idea of being extraterritorial has come to preoccupy writers and artists and a rejoinder to celebrations of the cosmopolitan intellect or the ostensible age of postnational globalization. Hart highlights the aesthetic appeal and...

October 24, 2020

Video: Eric Bulson Introduces Ulysses by Numbers

 “Numbers in literature often have magical or secret meanings, but this remarkable book also shows us other, quite startling modes of literary counting, giving us the pleasure we find only in the best critical readings: we are surprised and...

October 12, 2020

Webinar: Lionel Barber in Conversation with Gilles Kepel

 “Gilles Kepel has long been France’s most sophisticated scholar of radical Islam, and Away from Chaos is his personal and political summa—a remarkable synthesis of decades of passionate engagement with the Middle East.” ~Robert F. Worth, The New York Times Magazine...

October 10, 2020

Video: Todd McGowan in Conversation with Richard Boothby on Emancipation After Hegel

 “Todd McGowan’s Emancipation After Hegel could not come at a more appropriate time: the time when we truly need to carefully (re)think and reestablish the idea of emancipation. The book does this in a brilliant and compelling way, taking contradiction—as understood...

October 9, 2020

Webinar: #RaiseUP How University Presses Work for Overlooked Authors & Ideas

 In a time when information moves faster than ever, it’s critical that books about the most important events of the day are nurtured, championed, and made widely available. In this webinar, staff and authors from the university press community...