Bar Biszick-Lockwood’s book Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs will receive the Country Music Book of the Year Award by the International Country Music […]
A historian’s perspective on the 2011 Missouri spillway flood by Jarod Roll
Right now a man-made flood is inundating part of Missouri after the US Army Corps of Engineers ‘activated’ the Bird’s Point-New Madrid Spillway by dynamiting the riverfront levee guarding parts […]
The Guardian reviews Disappearing Tricks
Following Disappearing Tricks‘ recent win of the Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image Book Award, prize judge Peter Bradshaw raves about the book on the Guardian Film Blog. Solomon’s excellent book shows how the […]
David Gerstner on Sirius XM’s OUTQ
On April 20, 2011, David Gerstner appeared on Sirius XM’s OUTQ channel with host Michelangelo Signorile to discuss his new book Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic. […]
Journal of Animal Ethics and the UK press
Last week, the following press release about the first issue of the Journal of Animal Ethics caught the attention of the UK press: Animal Language Sends Wrong Message A call for […]
Disappearing Tricks wins Kraszna-Krausz Book Award
Matthew Solomon’s recent University of Illinois Press book Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century was announced the winner the Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image […]
BEA, please meet Hollywood
For the past few years, as Book Expo has grappled with how to best sustain the show (host it in New York for the foreseeable future, keep the public out, cut the […]
The Weekly Standard reviews “Red Conspirator”
Thomas Sakmyster’s new book, Red Conspirator: J. Peters and the American Communist Underground, received an excellent review (subscription required) from Harvey Klehr in the April 25-May 2, 2011, issue of […]
Hazel Dickens passes away
We received the sad news late last week that musician Hazel Dickens died at the age of 75. She was the subject and co-author (with Bill Malone) of the 2008 […]
Books for Cooks looks at From the Jewish Heartland
This week’s food column in the Chicago Reader features mini-profiles of five new books including the inaugural volume in our Heartland Foodways series, From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of […]
“Contesting Archives” wins award
Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz and Mary Elizabeth Perry, was unanimously selected as the recipient of this year’s Barbara “Penny” Kanner […]
Disclaimer (I regret any deviation from our usual standards)
Today’s Inside Higher Ed features a report on the brouhaha caused by a special disclaimer that three regular editors of Synthese (a journal focusing on the philosophy of science) slapped […]