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Gill Bennett, “The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Gill Bennett
The Zinoviev Letter
The Conspiracy that Never Dies
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in British Studies New Books in History New Books in National Security New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies New Books in World Affairs October 18, 2018 Charles Coutinho

The Zinoviev Affair is a story of one of the most long-lasting and enduring conspiracy theories in modern British politics, an intrigue that still resonates nearly one-hundred years after it was written. Almost certainly a forgery, the so-called Zinoviev Letter, had no original and has never been traced. Notwithstanding, the Letter... Read More

Wade Roush, ed., “Twelve Tomorrows” (MIT Press, 2018)

Wade Roush, ed.
Twelve Tomorrows

The MIT Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science Fiction New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in Technology New Books Network October 18, 2018 Rob Wolf

Science fiction is, at its core, about tomorrow—exploring through stories what the universe may look like one or 10 or a million years in the future. Twelve Tomorrows (MIT Press, 2018) uses short stories to fit nearly a dozen possible “tomorrows” into a single book. Edited by journalist Wade Roush, the... Read More

Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds., “The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China’s Borders” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)

Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds.
The Art of Neighbouring
Making Relations Across China's Borders
Amsterdam University Press, 2017

New Books in Central Asian Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books in World Affairs New Books Network October 18, 2018 Ed Pulford

China’s growing presence in all of our worlds today is felt most keenly by those living directly on the country’s borders. They, together with the Chinese people who also inhabit the borderlands, are parties to a dazzling array of of China-driven transformations unfolding on a vast scale in economics, politics,... Read More

Jeffrey Kahan
Shakespeare and Superheroes

ARC Humanities Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in British Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Popular Culture New Books Network October 18, 2018 Miranda Corcoran

What do Shakespeare and superheroes have in common? A penchant for lycra and capes? A flair for the dramatic? Well, according to Shakespeare scholar, English Professor and comic-book fan Jeffrey Kahan, the connection between Batman and the Bard runs much deeper. In his new book, Shakespeare and Superheroes (ARC Humanities... Read More

Ivan Simic
Soviet Influences on Postwar Yugoslav Gender Policies

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies New Books Network October 18, 2018 Jelena Golubovic

In his new book Soviet Influences on Postwar Yugoslav Gender Policies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Ivan Simic explores how Yugoslav communists learned, adapted, and applied Soviet gender policies in their efforts to build their own egalitarian society after World War II. Attending to the gap between ideas and practices, he discusses how... Read More