The January 2009 issue of Library Journal includes a starred review of John Broven’s forthcoming book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers (April 2009). […]
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The Nation reviews “Charles Ives Reconsidered”
The January 5, 2009, issue of The Nation features David Schiff’s lengthy review of Gayle Sherwood Magee’s new book Charles Ives Reconsidered. “Magee’s book is a model of contemporary musicology, sympathetically sober in […]
SF Chronicle reviews Beauvoir’s “Wartime Diary”
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle includes Benjamin Ivry’s review of the new English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary. “In 1991, Such a Sweet Occupation by Gilbert Joseph pointed out […]
Recent online reviews
A variety of University of Illinois Press books have received online attention in recent weeks: -Jean Paulhan’s On Poetry and Politics, edited and translated by Jennifer Bajorek and Éric Trudel, […]
Bookforum on “The Legacy of Edward W. Said”
The December/January 2009 issue of Bookforum pairs William V. Spanos’s forthcoming University of Illinois Press book The Legacy of Edward W. Said (January 2009) with The Soul of Barbed Wire: An Intoduction to […]
Publishers Weekly reviews “Record Makers and Breakers”
The November 17, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly includes an enthusiastic review of John Broven’s forthcoming book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers (February […]
Publishers Weekly reviews Simone de Beauvoir’s “Wartime Diary”
The October 6, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a laudatory review of the forthcoming (December 2008) English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary. “What gives these notebooks additional […]
Time Out New York reviews Oni Buchanan’s “Spring”
The October 16-22, 2008, issue of Time Out New York includes an enthusiastic review of Oni Buchanan’s new book of poems, Spring. “Buchanan writes poems that are deeply sensitive, precisely […]
Recent online attention
A variety of University of Illinois Press books have received online attention in recent weeks: –Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 on […]
The New York Review of Books praises “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”
The October 23, 2008, issue of The New York Review of Books includes a dual review of Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen Guelzo and The […]
Rigoberto on Oni
Writing for Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors, Rigoberto González includes Oni Buchanan’s Spring in his roundup of recent poetry books published with an […]
Publishers Weekly reviews “Spring”
Oni Buchanan’s new book of poems, Spring, receives praise in the September 15, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly. “In this adventurous mix of taut lyrics, dramatic monologues and free-ranging typographical experiments, Buchanan, who is […]