Elizabeth C. Ramírez is the is the fine arts specialist administrator with the Edgewood Independent School District of San Antonio, Texas, and co-editor of the new book La Voz Latina: Contemporary […]
George Szell is best known for conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. On Sunday, July 10, 2011, the orchestra’s hometown daily paper, the Plain Dealer, published a review of Michael Charry’s new book […]
Will Kaufman, author of the new book Woody Guthrie, American Radical, was a guest July 25 on San Francisco’s National Public Radio affiliate KQED. Forum host Michael Krasny and Will Kaufman […]
The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844—1900), once said, “I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer” [The Gay Science,[1] […]
Library Journal recently reviewed Simine Short’s new book Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution. “In her exquisitely detailed paean to one of America’s foremost civil engineers and […]
 Gerald Danzer discusses his new book Illinois: A History in Pictures on the July 18, 2011, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
Today’s Inside Higher Ed reports on the grand jury indictment of Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist who is accused of illegally using an MIT guest account […]
A print publication recently e-mailed me with the offer of paying $100+ for an online review of one of our new books. The publication had requested the book from our catalog and […]
The July 8, 2011, issue of the Times Literary Supplement includes Christine Bold’s review of the new Nina Baym book Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927. “Over thirty years […]
Series Editor: Piya Chatterjee, University of California, Riverside The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce a new series, Dissident Feminisms, which seeks new feminist writing that traverses the […]
The July 4, 2011, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a starred review of Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Useless Mouths” and Other Literary Writings, the latest volume in The Beauvoir Series. […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Page View blog looks at the recent controversy over the new Journal of Animal Ethics. “Fur has flown since the editors of the Journal of […]