New Books in Arts & Letters | New Books Network

Madina Tlostanova, “What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire” (Duke UP, 2018)

Madina Tlostanova
What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet?
Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies New Books Network August 14, 2020 Steven Seegel

In What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (Duke University Press, 2018), Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has... Read More

Rae Linda Brown, “Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price” (U Illinois Press, 2020)

Rae Linda Brown
Heart of a Woman
The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
University of Illinois Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Politics & Society August 14, 2020 Kristen Turner

In 1933, the Chicago Symphony performed the Symphony in E Minor by Florence B. Price. It was the first time a major American orchestra played a composition by an African American woman. Despite her success, Price sank into obscurity after her death in 1953. Dr. Rae Linda Brown spent much... Read More

K. Keeling and S. Pollard, “Table Lands: Food in Children’s Literature” (U Mississippi Press, 2020)

Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard
Table Lands
Food in Children's Literature
University of Mississippi Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in Literary Studies August 14, 2020 Carrie Tippen

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard about their new book, Table Lands: Food in Children’s Literature, published June 2020 by University of Mississippi Press. Table Lands contributes to a growing body of scholarship in the subfield of literary food studies, which combines the methods... Read More

Melissa Faliveno
Tomboyland
Essays
Topple Books and Little A, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Politics & Society August 14, 2020 Zoë Bossiere

Writers often evoke the famous que sais-je (“What do I know?”) of Michel de Montaigne, father of the literary essay. Montaigne was known for his deeply exploratory writing about the many overlapping and often conflicting aspects of selfhood. His Essais in the 16th century laid the foundation for the genre... Read More

Satyan Devadoss, “Mage Merlin’s Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries” (MIT Press, 2020)

Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey
Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries

MIT Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Mathematics New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network August 13, 2020 Jim Stein

There are very few math books that merit the adjective ‘charming’ but Mage Merlin’s Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries (MIT Press, 2020) is one of them. Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey have chosen a truly unique, creative and charming way to acquaint readers with some of the unsolved problems of mathematics. Some... Read More

Kyle Barnett, “Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry” (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Kyle Barnett
Record Cultures
The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry
University of Michigan Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in History New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture August 13, 2020 Kimberly Mack

In Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry (University of Michigan Press, 2020), Kyle Barnett tells the story of the smaller U.S. record labels in the 1920s that created the genres later to be known as blues, country, and jazz. Barnett also engages the early recording industry as... Read More

Erik Gellman, “Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay” (Chicago UP, 2020)

Erik Gellman
Troublemakers
Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay
University of Chicago Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Photography New Books in Politics & Society August 13, 2020 E. James West

James West speaks with Erik Gellman, an associate professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about his new book Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay (University of Chicago Press, 2020). Fusing photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to... Read More

Vesna Kittelson, “Lost and Found in America” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

Vesna Kittelson
Synthesis
Lost and Found in America
University of Minnesota Press, 2000

New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books Network August 13, 2020 Kirstin L. Ellsworth

The prolific artistic production of Vesna Kittelson always maintains autobiographical connections: her installations of deconstructed books and her luminous drawings of fountains recall her childhood in Split, Croatia; her early color field paintings represent people and places she remembers; her war paintings portray the tragedy and emotion experienced in Bosnia... Read More

Naomi Appleton, “Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40” (Equinox, 2020)

Naomi Appleton
Many Buddhas, One Buddha
A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40
Equinox Publishing, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Buddhist Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network August 13, 2020 Olivia Porter

Naomi Appleton‘s new book Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40 (Equinox Publishing, 2020) introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadānaśataka, or “One Hundred Stories”, and explores some of its perspectives on buddhahood. This text, composed in Sanskrit... Read More