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An Honest Living
An exiled professor’s journey from inside and beyond academe In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of …
The Intruder
In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy's heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger's heart was grafted into his body. Numerous complications followed, including …
Mortimer and the Witches
The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., …
The Time of the Cannibals
In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public …
The Location of Experience
We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside? The Location of …
Young Reds in the Big Apple
The Tale of New York's Young Reds — A Riveting Journey through the YPA's Rise and Influence Young Reds in the Big Apple: The New York YPA, 1923-1934 by Jack Hodgson is a …
The Covenant's Veil
An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships. “Ethiopia stretches her hand upon God,” the narrative of …
Join the Conspiracy
Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremes. In the shadow of recent turmoil, …
Beyond Hostile Islands
Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was …
The Ruse of Techne
The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities …
The Drinking Curriculum
A lively exploration into America’s preoccupation with childhood innocence and its corruption In The Drinking Curriculum, Elizabeth Marshall brings the taboo topic of alcohol and …
Shadows of Nagasaki
A critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hiroshima. In the decades following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki …