Spring Staff Picks: The Social Media Reader
March 9, 2012
Name and role at the Press: Betsy Steve, Publicist Book selection: The Social Media Reader It’s just a picture of a generic male college freshman that you’d likely find on… READ MORE
Spring Staff Picks: Gay Dads
March 7, 2012
Name and role at the Press: Deborah Gershenowitz, Senior Editor Book selection, and why: Gay Dads: Transitions to Adoptive Fatherhood It hasn’t been easy for me to designate only one book… READ MORE
Choosing to Have a Child With Down Syndrome
March 5, 2012
by Alison Piepmeier, author of Girl Zines: Doing Media, Making Feminism [This article originally appeared in the New York Times blog, Motherlode. Read it here.] I support abortion rights. I’ve… READ MORE
Spring Staff Picks: The Bully Society
March 1, 2012
This week, two of our staff members chose The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America’s Schools, by Jessie Klein, as their spring book pick. Name and role at… READ MORE
“Coming Apart” over and over again
February 29, 2012
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
Ohio school shooting: Jessie Klein, author of The Bully Society, speaks to CNN
February 28, 2012
To view the video on CNN’s page, click here. Read more about The Bully Society.
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
February 23, 2012
—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