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Yearly Archives: 2009

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  • 15 Jun 2009

    Janet Afary on a Divided Iran

    With calls for inquiry over Iran's election results, The New York Review of Books looks at 3 books that examine divisions in Iran, among them, Janet Afary's Sexual Politics in Modern Iran.

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  • 12 Jun 2009

    Rorotoko: Peter Conn’s ‘American 1930s’

    Brainy wonderblog rorotoko.com offered The American 1930s author Peter Conn their front page today, and he happily obliged with his piece 'Against the Simplification of History.' His aim: to examine the ways in which history and imaginative works can illuminate each other, and to understand how fictional works help us understand our national past.

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  • 11 Jun 2009
    Carol Swain

    Carol Swain on Extremism

    In an article in today's Washington Times, author Carol Swain comments on Wednesday's attack on the Holocaust Memorial Museum and on the April Department of Homeland Security report.

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  • 11 Jun 2009

    Thanks, Brown!

    Dear Brown University Bookstore: How did you know that I love taffy? Thanks for the treats; they’ll keep our spirits high!

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  • 10 Jun 2009

    The Buzz of BEA

    Two weeks ago, a fellow CUP rep wrote a blog post about pre-BEA So after a week of reflection, it’s now my turn to report on the events that transpired at the Javits Center. This was my first ever BEA on the publisher’s side of the booth. For years I traveled up and down the […]

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  • 9 Jun 2009

    Congrats to George Whitman!

    George Whitman, the 95-year-old American owner of the iconic Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris has just received one of France’s highest honors: Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters. This award is rarely given to foreigners. Congratulations! A Bloomberg article tells the story of a new force at the bookstore, daughter Sylvia Beach […]

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  • 9 Jun 2009

    Beckett, Yeats, and the occult

    Thanks to Canadian Rep Pam Robinson for pointing us to a very cool piece on a Globe and Mail blog: Samuel Beckett, Yeats, and the occult: A digression. Blogger Linda Leith points out that in Beckett’s disassociation with Ireland, he distanced himself from other Irish writers and their interest in the occult and mysticism. A […]

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  • 8 Jun 2009

    Nicholas Kristof on IQ

    Nicholas Kristof's latest Op-Ed reinforces one of Cambridge author James Flynn's central theses: that IQ gaps along racial lines can be attributed to nurture, not genetics.

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