Only two days left to enter our contest and win a free copy of John Farndon‘s Atlas of Oceans. Remember: you must correctly identify the landmasses on the cover image and live in North America to win. Submit your answer and e-mail address as a comment to our blog (not
We are soon to publish here in North America John Farndon’s Atlas of Oceans: An Ecological Survey of Underwater Life. If the title has not already begun to hint, this book goes under the sea to investigate the biological conditions of marine ecosystems, taking into consideration the climate changes that
What DID happen to Modernism? Bill Marx weighs in for the Arts Fuse in response to Robert Boyers’ review of Gabriel Josipovici‘s What Ever Happened to Modernism? in The New Republic. Modernism itself is no easy subject to define, which both reviewers point out in their articles, and the book
The new, Winter 2011 issue of the American Scholar has a selection of entries from our forthcoming book Alfred Kazin’s Journals, edited by Richard M. Cook. As a prominent public intellectual, Kazin’s circle of influence in postwar America was formidable. The letters excerpted in the American Scholar include Kazin’s thoughts
Alberto Manguel has a beautiful library. His life has been dedicated to the art and collection of books. The Argentine-born writer was once a reader to Jorge Luis Borges, who, blind by this point, nurtured Manguel’s interest in literature. In the time since, Manguel has become a world-renowned translator, editor,
About New York, of course. Updated after 15 years, The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition has been published with over 5000 entries and 700 illustrations of the Big Apple. Editor Kenneth Jackson sat down with Gothamist.com to talk about the remaking of the Second Edition, how the city
Congratulations to Maier Deshell and Margaret Birstein for their recent MLA award: The Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for their translation of Yehoshue Perle‘s Everyday Jews. The book is part of Yale Press’s New Yiddish Library series, including Maier Deshell‘s most recent work, along with Norbert
If you’ve been missing all the buzz, be sure to check out the year-end giveaway at “Muphoric Sounds,” including our newly published, Anthology of Rap, which makes an excellent holiday gift for any music aficionado. The contest will stay open until Thursday, December 23, so enter and grab a gift
The preeminent mistress of all book clubs has turned her readers ‘ attention towards the Victorian past. Yesterday, Oprah announced two Charles Dickens classics, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, rounding off the 2010 Oprah’s Book Club selections for discussion on Dickens to follow in January 2011. Already
Ivan Lett Virginia Woolf declared in her essay “Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown” that “On or about December 1910 human character changed.” There is hardly a better way to describe the dilemma of art in the Modernist period. The mere mention of Mrs.Woolf, her husband Leonard, E.M. Forster, and their