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June 2, 2020
Until the End of Time
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for S…
April 28, 2020
Slavery and the University
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. B…
March 30, 2020
Sleight of Mind
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat.…
February 25, 2020
Inside the Critics’ Circle
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillipa…
December 3, 2019
How Charts Lie
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infogra…
November 4, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trad…
October 24, 2019
Geeky Pedagogy
The things that make people academics -- a deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude th…
March 19, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more de…
December 6, 2018
General Intellects
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention. The chapters of General…
November 20, 2018
Discognition
Steven Shaviro’s book Discognition (Repeater Books, 2016) opens with a series of questions: What is consciousness? How does subjective experience occu…
August 13, 2018
The Ecology of Attention
We are arguably living in the midst of a form of economy where attention has become a key resource and value, labor, class, and currency are being rec…
September 29, 2017
Under the Cover
How does a book come into being? In Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel (Princeton University Press, 2017), Clayton…
September 25, 2017
After World Religions
When undergraduate students look through a course catalog and see the title World Religions they probably have some idea what the course will be about…
August 25, 2017
The Edge of Evolution
As I was reading Ron Edward's fascinating and far-reaching new book, The Edge of Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau (Oxford Universit…
May 26, 2017
Why the Humanities Matter Today
Lee Trepanier, Professor of Political Science at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, edited this important analysis of why the humanities mat…
April 25, 2017
What Love Is
Carrie Jenkins' new book is a model for what public philosophy can be. Beautifully written, thoughtful, and compellingly and carefully argued, What Lo…
October 10, 2016
Molecular Red
McKenzie Wark's new book begins and ends with a playful call: "Workings of the world untie! You have a win to world!" Molecular Red: Theory for the An…
March 7, 2016
ABC of Impossibility
From its opening fragment on "Fragments" to its "Possibly dolorous tropical lyrical coda," Simon Critchley's new book is a pleasure to hold in the han…
November 17, 2015
The Marvelous Clouds
John Durham Peters' wonderful new book is a brilliant and beautifully-written consideration of natural environments as subjects for media studies. Acc…
September 28, 2015
Horror of Philosophy
Eugene Thacker's wonderful Horror of Philosophy series includes three books - In the Dust of this Planet (Zero Books, 2011), Starry Speculative Corpse…