Category Archives: new books

August 30, 2012

Framing Insanity

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We have a selection of new titles that examine the different ways the U.S. legal system has defined insanity, especially in relation to gender. All of these books look at and try to answer the questions: Who defines the narratives? … Continue reading →

April 15, 2009

Mushroom Mania

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Our gorgeous new guide to wild mushrooms in Illinois is finally here, just in time for high mushroom season. Champaign Taste features it in today’s post, and one of the authorial mushroom hunters will sign books at our lovely local … Continue reading →

February 26, 2009

Starring Ronell by Willis Regier

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The debut of Examined Life gives Avital Ronell a celebrity that will amaze her, please her, and puzzle her, all at once. Choosing Avital as one of the principals in the film could hardly have been a better choice. She shares rare … Continue reading →

December 18, 2008

Just Landed: New books!

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A load of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: -African Women Playwrights edited and with an Introduction by Kathy A. Perkins (Dec. 8, 2008) -Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire … Continue reading →

November 4, 2008

Just Landed: November & December titles

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A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: -Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader edited by Julie Malnig (November 17, 2008) -Life along the Illinois River by David Zalaznik  (November … Continue reading →

October 13, 2008

Just Landed: A bevy of new books

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A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: -Terrence Malick by Lloyd Michaels (October 20, 2008) -Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980: An Oral History by Lucinda McCray Beier (October 20, 2008) -AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders … Continue reading →

September 16, 2008

Just Landed: “The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair,” “African or American?” & “America’s Religions”

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A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: -America’s Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century Third Edition by Peter W. Williams (September 29, 2008) -African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New … Continue reading →

August 25, 2008

Just Landed: New September books and the most detailed account of the Lincoln-Douglas debates

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A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: -Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era by Lorna Rivera (September 15, 2008) -Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men by … Continue reading →

August 11, 2008

National Book Festival invites Michael Harper

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Frost Medal recipient Michael Harper has been invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in the National Book Festival in Washington D.C., on September 27, 2008. His new book of poems, Use Trouble, will be published in … Continue reading →

August 5, 2008

Just Landed: New books on soy, cinema studies, and women journalists

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A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past week: -Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South by Michelle R. Scott (August 25, 2008) -Women in American Journalism: A New History by Jan … Continue reading →