Anna Mulrine, posting on US News & World Report‘s “Washington Whispers” blog, divulges the existence of Erika Falk’s forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Women for President: Media Bias in […]
Category: reviews
The New York Times Book Review reviews Willy’s “The Third Sex”
Lawrence Schehr’s first English translation of Willy’s classic European queer culture text The Third Sex was reviewed in the November 11, 2007, issue of The New York Times Book Review. […]
The Washington Post reviews Jane Bernstein’s “Rachel in the World”
The November 11, 2007, issue of the Washington Post contains a review of Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World: A Memoir. “The book makes it clear that we, as a […]
Queneau reviewed in The Nation
Raymond Queneau’s Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70 was reviewed in the November 19, 2007 issue of The Nation. Mark Polizzotti writes, “Throw any label at him you want—writer’s writer, literary […]
Roni Stoneman on the cover of Bluegrass Music Profiles
The Bluegrass Blog reports that Roni Stoneman is the cover story for the Nov/Dec issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles. The University of Illinois Press recently published Pressing On: The Roni […]
BiblioBuffet recommends Music in American Life
Writing in BiblioBuffet, Henry Carrigan, editor-in-chief for the Northwestern University Press, eulogizes the recently deceased country music star Porter Wagoner and recommends our Music in American Life series: “The University […]
Aptheker in The Nation
The November 5, 2007, issue of The Nation magazine includes an article about Bettina Aptheker and the alleged abuse that she suffered at the hands of her father, Marxist historian […]
Wall Street Journal reviews “Air Castle of the South”
The October 17 issue of the Wall Street Journal praised Craig Havighurst’s new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City writing, “Havighurst has done […]
Jane Bernstein in The New York Times Magazine
The October 7, 2007, issue of The New York Times Magazine featured a “Lives” essay by Jane Bernstein that was adapted from her new book Rachel in the World. V […]
Jane Bernstein Pittsburgh Post-Gazette review
Jane Bernstein’s new book Rachel in the World: A Memoir received a favorable review in the September 30th issue of her hometown daily, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Jane will be discussing […]