Timothy Egan takes on Steve Jobs’s dim view of the state of reading in The New York Times. Please note: I once caught my teenage son listening to his iTouch AND reading […]
Just Landed: “Dark Victorians”
Vanessa D. Dickerson’s new book Dark Victorians, which explores connections between black Americans and white Victorian Britons, just landed on my desk. The publication date is March 24, 2008, […]
The Nashville Scene reviews “Air Castle of the South”
One of Craig Havighurst’s hometown weeklies, the Nashville Scene, reviews his new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City. “Air Castle of the South pulls […]
Golf and the water supply
The February 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine includes a piece titled Drying of the West, about water resource issues in the American West. A caption that accompanies one of […]
Erika Falk Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun
Today’s Baltimore Sun includes an Erika Falk opinion piece on Hillary Clinton’s status as the “first woman” to run for president. “I am worried that persistently framing women as ‘firsts’ […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education features “Holy Dogs and Asses”
Nina Ayoub’s February 22nd Nota Bene column in The Chronicle of Higher Education features Laura Hobgood-Oster’s Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition. “While the Bible includes exemplary […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education interview with a new series editor
Mark Smith, editor of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press series Studies in Sensory History, is interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Especially exciting is a new Series in Sensory History, which will […]
90th anniversary press release
THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS CELEBRATES 90 YEARS OF PUBLISHING EXCELLENCE The University of Illinois Press reaches a new milestone in 2008, marking ninety years of supporting the mission of […]
“Red Chicago” reviewed in the Chicago Tribune
Randi Storch’s recent book Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35 was reviewed by Ron Grossman in the February 16th edition of the Chicago Tribune. “[Storch’s] book engagingly […]
UIP poet Michael S. Harper awarded the Frost Medal
This morning’s Providence Journal reports that University of Illinois Press poet Michael S. Harper has been awarded the Frost Medal. Harper’s many books include, Dear John, Dear Coltrane, Songlines in Michaeltree: […]
Looking for the best translation of an Aesop fable?
University of Illinois Press Director Willis Regier recounts his search for the best translation of an Aesop fable in the February 15th issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. […]
Just Landed: “The Revival of Labor Liberalism,” “Pulling the Right Threads,” and “Feeling Modern”
Three new books recently landed on my desk: The Revival of Labor Liberalism by Andrew Battista (March 10, 2008) Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane […]