March 30, 2015
Arvind Sharma— The Salt March, which Mahatma Gandhi launched in March of 1930 constitutes a watershed in India’s independence struggle and as such, we might be tempted to view it… READ MORE
March 27, 2015
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn… READ MORE
Our March 2015 edition of From the Designer’s Desk is a delightful tour through successive iterations of design for a new book entitled Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit,… READ MORE
March 26, 2015
Congratulations to our author Vittoria di Palma, whose recent book Wasteland: A History has just received the Louis Gottschalk Prize for an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century,… READ MORE
March 25, 2015
Mil Duncan— Poverty alleviation has always been politically charged in the United States. Are the poor trapped by their own bad choices—dropping out of school, having children young and out… READ MORE
Throughout the month of March, we’re featuring excerpts from our recently-published collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, a beautiful volume of van Gogh’s letters entitled Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, edited… READ MORE
March 23, 2015
Felice Fischer – As curator of the exhibition, Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano, on view now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I often am asked, “which painting… READ MORE
Roberto González Echevarría— It now seems certain that Cervantes’ remains have been found in Madrid; for four centuries they had been given up for lost. What does this mean and… READ MORE
March 22, 2015
David Sedlak— In 1980, Julian Simon, an economist at the University of Maryland, bet Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University that the prices of five of the world’s most important metals… READ MORE
March 21, 2015
Robert A. Askins— The window at my desk looks down a snowy slope through gray tree trunks to a heavily forested ridge on the far side of the valley. This… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic