Times Higher Education recently reviewed Emma Wilson’s new book on Canadian-bred filmmaker Atom Egoyan. This persuasive book brings Egoyan’s films vibrantly alive, while at the same time offering compelling, […]
The Art, Life, and Times of Rembrandt
In the Summer 2008, the University of Illinois Press published a special issue of the Journal of Aesthetic Education featuring discussions of an arts education curriculum project using the work […]
The Art of Yes: On Will Powers
My friend and former colleague Will Powers died suddenly in August. He was the design and production manager par excellence at the Minnesota Historical Society Press. We’ve seen copious tributes […]
“A Map of the Night” wins award
David Wagoner’s book, A Map of the Night, has been named winner of the 2009 Washington State Book Award in Poetry. Sponsored by the Washington Center for the Book at […]
Textbook Texas
Richard Hughes, author of the new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, was quoted yesterday in a San Antonio Express-News column on the debate in Texas over how Christianity’s […]
Barrelhouse Word: in one’s whiskey
in one’s whiskey When I’m in my whiskey, I don’t care what I say ‘Cause me and my whiskey, we going to have our way. —Barbecue Bob, “Me And My […]
I have a few Billys
What does your bookcase say about you? I have a few Billys but they hold CDs. Many of my books are stored in the garage waiting for that custom built shelf that […]
Livingston vs. Berube
At Bully Bloggers, Ira Livingston, co-editor of the recent University of Illinois Press book Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader, takes on Michael Berube’s recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay […]
Controversial covers
Webdesigner Depot features the Most Controversial Magazine Covers of All Time. […]
One day, three events
On Thursday, September 24, University of Illinois Press authors will appear in Boston, Chicago, and Jackson, Mississippi. -P. Gabrielle Foreman, author of the book Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the […]
Change at Northwestern
Inside Higher Ed reports that the search for a new director will continue at Northwestern University Press but a key journal will move online. Beginning next year, the university announced, the […]
Barrelhouse Word: butter and egg man
butter and egg man Why don’t you take me pretty mama, make something out of poor me? I’m just a butter and egg man, just as soft as I can […]