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: […]
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Just Landed: November & December titles
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 […]
Just Landed: A bevy of new books
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 […]
Just Landed: “The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair,” “African or American?” & “America’s Religions”
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) […]
Just Landed: New September books and the most detailed account of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
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, […]
National Book Festival invites Michael Harper
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 […]
Just Landed: New books on soy, cinema studies, and women journalists
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, […]
Just Landed: Books on Chicago sports, Hong Kong cinema, and Illinois outlaws
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema edited by Poshek Fu (August 11, 2008) –“Baad […]
Just Landed: Summer books
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –William Grant Still by Catherine Parsons Smith (July 21, 2008) –About Bach edited by Gregory G. Butler, […]
Just Landed: July and August books
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past week: –Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest edited by R. David Edmunds (July 14, 2008) –German Film after […]
Just Landed: New books
Many new books have landed on my desk in the past few weeks: –Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States edited by Stephanie Gilmore (June 2, […]
Just Landed: “Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing,” “Father and Son,” and “Everything Was Better in America”
Three new books recently landed on my desk: –Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38 edited and with an Introduction by Suping Lu (May 19, 2008) –Father and […]