Recent Interviews
Philip Thai, “China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Philip Thai
China’s War on Smuggling
Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965
Columbia University Press, 2018

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 21, 2018 Laurie DIckmeyer

From petty runs to organized trafficking, the illicit activity of smuggling on the China coast was inherently dramatic, but now historian Philip Thai has also identified China’s history of smuggling as a significant narrative about the expansion of state power. China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making... Read More
Brian Abrams, “Obama: An Oral History, 2009-2017” (Little A, 2018)
Brian Abrams
Obama
Obama: An Oral History, 2009-2017
Little A, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 21, 2018 Bill Scher

Brian Abrams interviewed more than 200 people – Democrats, Republicans, cabinet officials, White House aides, campaign operatives, congresspeople and activists – to piece together a comprehensive oral history of the Barack Obama presidency, in Obama: An Oral History, 2009-2017 (Little A, 2018).  Based almost solely on the words of those who... Read More
Beth Macy, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America” (Little, Brown & Company, 2018)
Beth Macy
Dopesick
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Little, Brown & Company, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in JournalismNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network August 21, 2018 Chelsea Jack

“Appalachia was among the first places where the malaise of opioid pills hit the nation in the mid-1990s, ensnaring coal miners, loggers, furniture makers, and their kids.” This is how journalist Beth Macy premises her new book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America (Little, Brown, & Company,... Read More
Ahmad Dallal, “Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought” (UNC Press, 2018)
Ahmad Dallal
Islam without Europe
Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network August 21, 2018 Nadirah Mansour

In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in the eighteenth century, right before the nineteenth century, when the nahda or Arabic intellectual renaissance, began: intellectuals were caught in a period of stagnation and retrograde. Ahmad Dallal pushes back against this in Islam... Read More
Susan Greenfield, “You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity” (Notting Hill Editions, 2016)
Susan Greenfield
You and Me
The Neuroscience of Identity
Notting Hill Editions, 2016

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network August 21, 2018 Jeremy Corr

What makes you who you are? What makes you distinct from me? What is identity? In the book You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity (Notting Hill Editions, 2016), Baroness Susan Greenfield scientifically dives into concepts of identity from, a biological perspective, that are usually reserved for philosophers. In this interview... Read More

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