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Happy Birthday, Shelf Awareness!

Happy Birthday, Shelf Awareness! The book industry newsletter is 4 years old today, but golly, they don’t look a day over two! Their announcement >> Read More ?

29 Jun 2009

Riz Khan interviews Janet Afary

Janet Afary, in a two part interview with Riz Khan on Al-Jazeera, discusses the question: How far could things go in Iran? Afary is author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Read More ?

29 Jun 2009

Abrahamian: Mousavi would shun nuclear weapons

From Haaretz Online, an analysis by one of our top Iran scholars, Ervand Abrahamian, author of A History of Modern Iran. Even if the Iranian authorities succeed in suppressing the large demonstrations,...

29 Jun 2009

Dylan the Brand

No Faith in the Market – Part II To read Part I, Click Here >> Anne Ream Back to the music. In one of the angriest anti-love songs ever written — “Positively Fourth Street” —...

Anne Ream | 29 Jun 2009

Bob Dylan Joins DuBois and Franklin

The Times Higher Education Supplement reviews The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. Too restless, omnivorous and single-mindedly creative to sit in university classrooms, Dylan, as Shumway notes, has absorbed...

26 Jun 2009

Foreign Policy on Iran Reading

Foreign Policy posted its 8 Books Ahmadinejad Doesn’t Want You to Read yesterday, and coming in at #1: Janet Afary’s Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Keep track of some of Afary’s recent...

25 Jun 2009

Good Beer + Good Food. Please.

Charles Bamforth’s predictions are coming true; but in the opposite direction. Good restaurants are adding good beer. Beer bars aren’t exactly venturing towards good food. Eric Asimovin the...

24 Jun 2009

Beckett in the Washington Times

Martin Rubin reviews The Letters of Samuel Beckett in the Washington Times. Read More ?

23 Jun 2009

Interns Blog: Death Lurks in Crisp White Stacks

Christopher Zingaro The only certainty for summer interns is that paperwork and paper cuts await us. They lurk about every filing cabinet and alongside each fresh stack of paper from the printer. Beware. With...

23 Jun 2009

Bob Dylan, Capitalism and the Religious Right

No Faith in the Market – Part I Anne Ream One likes to believe that Bob Dylan was being ironic, not prophetic. But as is the case with most things Dylan, one is never sure. The year was 1967 and...

Anne Ream | 22 Jun 2009

Astronomy.com on Mullaney & Tirion

Gerald Mullaney and Wil Tirion just published the splendid Cambridge Double Star Atlas, and Astronomy.com posted their review today. And yes, the review is very nice. Thanks for the kind words, Michael! Read More ?

18 Jun 2009

Inside Higher Ed Reviews Norwood

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...

18 Jun 2009