A kinder, gentler Onion
Given the torrent of negative media attention enjoyed of late by the state of Illinois and its flagship university , it’s no surprise that the Onion wanted to get in […]
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Barns of Illinois book launch
The University of Illinois Press and the Larry Kanfer Gallery invite you to celebrate the publication of Barns of Illinois. Photographs by Larry Kanfer Text by Alaina Kanfer Book launch […]
View from the UK
The Guardian explains the Google digital library settlement. […]
The Wall Street Journal recommends “George Gershwin”
The September 5, 2009, issue of The Wall Street Journal featured a glowing review of Walter Rimler’s George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. “More thorough biographies than Mr. Rimler’s slender Âvolume […]
Lawrence Richards to appear on C-Span’s Washington Journal
Lawrence Richards, author of the book Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture, is scheduled to appear on C-Span’s Washington Journal program on Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 9:30-10:00 a.m. (Eastern). His segment […]
Mushrooms in the Chicago Tribune
The September 2, 2009, issue of the Chicago Tribune includes a profile of Joe McFarland and Gregory Mueller’s new book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States. If you […]
Inside Higher Ed on Global Campus
Inside Higher Ed reports today on the failure of Illinois’ Global Campus initiative. […]
Lists, more lists!
It’s not time for our 2009 end-of-the-year favorites yet but blogs at the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s All Songs Considered have me thinking. LA Times posted a list yesterday titled The 46 […]
Berle Adams
Berle Adams, co-founder of Mercury Records and the subject of Chapter 2 of John Broven’s new book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers, died […]
$526 per page
Inside Higher Ed reports on a recently released paper that anazlyed the cost of printing humanities and social science journals. The analysis of the eight journals was conducted to help […]
Chang vs. Yang
In April we published Doris T. Chang’s book Women’s Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, which featured this beautiful cover. On August 4, 2009 Random House published Xianhui Yang’s Woman from Shanghai: […]
Is the peer review process broken?
Daniel J. Myers expresses concern in the The Chronicle of Higher Education about his popularity as a peer reviewer. In the past month, I have been asked to review not one […]