The April 3, 2009, edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education features a piece on tensions involved in the uncertain digital future. […]
T. R. M. Howard by David Beito
In the first review of Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, Damon W. Root writes in Reason magazine: No single individual brought down the South’s […]
The hidden revolution in scholarly publishing
Scott McLemee’s column in Inside Higher Ed explores the topic of digital publishing. The growing importance of digital publishing will not mean a sacrifice of one mode of attention for the […]
“Cafe Society” reviewed in The Wall Street Journal
Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal features a wonderful review of Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People. Cafe Society is a valuable document in the long, […]
Professor Kinderman and the Great White Way
How pleasant to settle down on a Friday night with a fresh New Yorker and almost immediately find mention not only of your home institution, but of an author and […]
Google Books Settlement to be challenged
Google’s inclusion of millions of orphan works in their big scanning project–and their plan to profit from these still-copyrighted, unclaimed works–was a hot topic at the settlement symposium sponsored by […]
The Nation’s review of “Only a Miner”
The Nation online posts a 35+ year old review of Archie Green’s Only a Miner. […]
Diana Nyad reviews “Stolen Bases”
On Diana Nyad’s Score radio segment yesterday she reviewed Jennifer Ring’s new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball. “Jennifer Ring, has crafted a great read, replete with […]
The North Korea Satellite and Global Financial Restructuring by James Schwoch
You have to hand it to the North Koreans. In a action-packed news cycle where Obama fired the CEO of General Motors, the G20 London Summit convened, NATO celebrated its […]
Protesting controversial speakers
Shelf Awareness reports on the cancellation of a controversial speaker at Anderson’s in Naperville, Illinois, and friend-of-the-Press Cary Nelson addresses that general topic in Inside Higher Ed. […]
“Staley” authors on the road
Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking, authors of the new book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, are on the road and writing a tour diary for […]
April’s Foolishness
Oh, dear. Here are a couple of nice examples of the silliness of springtime. Shelf Awareness brings us up to date on this year’s BEA. And our local online city […]