Month: February 2012

“Coming Apart” over and over again

by Melanie Heath, author of One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (forthcoming from NYU Press in April) There is not much new in Charles Murray’s recent book,… READ MORE

Wisconsin Uprising and an ode to the unions

by Julian Paul Keenan, Director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory and Professor of Psychology, Montclair State University The labor movement over the past year in Wisconsin has reminded many of us… READ MORE

Rethinking Black History Month

—Kidada E. Williams, author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I It happens every term. An enthusiastic African American… READ MORE

Book reading tomorrow at Bluestockings!

Mary Romero will be at Bluestockings (bookstore/fair trade cafe/activist center) tomorrow to read from her book, The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream.  Where: Bluestockings (172 Allen St.,… READ MORE

Spring Staff Picks: Signifying Creator

Name and role at the Press: Constance Grady, Editorial Assistant Book selection and why: The Signifying Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism It’s my firm belief that every English major who… READ MORE

Singles, rejoice!

From Liz Lemon to Melville’s Bartleby, the ones who prefer not two by Michael Cobb, author of Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled (forthcoming this July) I used to nurse my… READ MORE