Stephen Norwood’s The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower was reviewed yesterday at Inside Higher Ed: In an interview, Norwood describes university leaders as indifferent to evidence of a barbaric regime...
Stephanie Harnett It may seem that the doctors of New York today are a far cry from the old-fashioned country doctors of mid-century Middle America. Or are they? The New York Times this week has pointed...
Bjørn Lomborg, writing for the Guardian, warns of Global Warming exaggeration. An argument he’s been making for a while, yes, but here, he points to terrified children, convinced that the world...
On The Huffington Post, Carol Swain shares an excerpt from her book, The New White Nationalism in America. Read More ?
I remember when, a bushy-tailed 25-year-old, I came to New York and began a job search. Well, back up a bit, I had been searching for a job in NY for 3 months prior to my move, with no success. Waiting...
David Cole, writing for the New York Review of Books, looks at several books on the same-sex marriage debate. Among them is Cambridge author Evan Gerstmann’s Same Sex Marriage and the Constitution....
“Mr. Sedaris, will you sign my Kindle?” E-readers may not spell the end of book signings just yet. On the NY Times, an article about ebook signings. What did David Sedaris write? “This...
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. ~...
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. ~ ~ ~ My chief purpose is...
In an article in today’s Washington Times, The New White Nationalism in America author Carol Swain comments on Wednesday’s attack on the Holocaust Memorial Museum and on the April Department...
Dear Brown University Bookstore: How did you know that I love taffy? Thanks for the treats; they’ll keep our spirits high! Read More ?
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...