The “southern magazine of fine writing,” Oxford American, has a published a feature on Rich Remsberg’s new book Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression. Published in conjunction with the […]
Category: reviews
TLS reviews “The Uncanny Gaze”
On February 1, 2010, we published the first English translation of Heide Schlüpmann’s book The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema, which was translated by Inga Pollmann. The book (Unheimlichkeit […]
“Serving Genius” in the Chicago Tribune
Thomas Saler’s new book Serving Genius: Carlo Maria Giulini was featured today in John von Rhein’s column in the Chicago Tribune. “He was the last great conductor of his generation, […]
“Beauty Shop Politics” in The Chronicle
The April 11, 2010, edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a review of Tiffany Gill’s new book Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry. […]
Mushrooms in the Sun-Times
Just in time for morel season, the April 11, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times featured a Dale Bowman Outdoors piece on the University of Illinois Press book Edible Wild […]
Bookslut on “The Genius and the Goddess”
Elizabeth Bachner’s column in the March issue of Bookslut discusses Jeffrey Meyers’s new book The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. “I went through a phase where I read […]
“George Gershwin” reviewed in the TLS
The March 26, 2010, issue of the Times Literary Supplement includes a laudatory review of Walter Rimler’s recent book George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. “Compact in length and voluminous in […]
“Freeing Charles” in The Wall Street Journal
The March 26, 2010, edition of The Wall Street Journal featured a review of the new University of Illinois Press book Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on […]
Oscar Wilde in San Francisco
The February 7, 2010, edition of the San Francisco Chronicle ran some excerpts from the new book Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews. The following was originally published in the SF Chronicle […]
TLS on Bertram’s Nietzsche
The January 22, 2010, edition of the Times Literary Supplement includes a review of Robert E. Norton’s new English translation of Ernst Bertram’s classic Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology. Ernst Bertram’s seminal work […]
The Cattell Controversy controversy
On January 21, 2010, the Rebel News posted Kevin Lamb’s review of William H. Tucker’s recent book The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology under the headline “The Malicious Smearing […]
Huffington Post reviews “Christian America and the Kingdom of God”
Today’s Huffington Post includes Randall Balmer’s review of Richard Hughes’s new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God. Nothing demonstrates the internal diversity of evangelicalism in America better than an important new […]