November 24, 2009
An op-ed in the San Diego Union Tribune by Esther Rothblum, co-editor of The Fat Studies Reader. Fat studies scholars in the health and medical sciences have examined the economic… READ MORE
November 23, 2009
Leading progressive news site Truthdig published an excerpt from The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law. I first saw him on a TV screen. Before my initial meeting… READ MORE
November 20, 2009
NYU Press is delighted to announce that we have won jacket/cover design awards in the 2010 New York Book Show. The New York Book Show is a North American competition,… READ MORE
November 19, 2009
Two new reviews of The Left at War by Michael Berube are now available: The American Prospect “Bérubé links progressives’ inability to control the conversation on national security during the… READ MORE
November 18, 2009
Jonathan Hafetz, co-editor of The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law, has a blog post up at Balkinization. A Short excerpt is below. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement… READ MORE
November 17, 2009
Here’s a YouTube clip of Glenn Danzig, lead singer of legendary punk band The Misfits, looking through his rather intense personal library. at 0:45 in, he takes a look at… READ MORE
November 13, 2009
An American Prospect review of Girl Zines got some attention from America’s favorite women and culture blog, Jezebel. Since the 1990s, zines have played a crucial role in bringing awareness… READ MORE
November 12, 2009
Anis Shivani reviews Richard P. Bentall’s Doctoring the Mind: Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good? In the 1960s, a movement called “antipsychiatry” (prompted in Britain by… READ MORE