An excerpt from Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse by Caitlin O’Connell “Kissing the Ring” Sitting in our research tower at the water hole,
Donald L. Levine (1931–2013), the Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Chicago (where he served as dean of the College
Each year, the University of Chicago Press, awards the Gordon J. Laing Prize to “the faculty author, editor or translator of a book published in
We’ve gone mimetic and we’re not coming back; executive editor Doug Mitchell models our new on-brand lookbook. We call it Informcore. In the meantime, here’s
Hearty congratulations to Alan Shapiro, whose collection of poems Reel to Reel was recently shortlisted for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Shapiro, who teaches at the
An excerpt from Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere by Georges Perec *** Madera was heavy. I grabbed him by the armpits and went backwards
An excerpt from That’s the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America by Charles L. Ponce de Leon *** “Beginnings” Few technologies have
“Can We Race Together? An Autopsy”* by Ellen Berrey *** Corporate diversity dialogues are ripe for backlash, the research shows, even without coffee counter gimmicks. Corporate
An excerpt from Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran by John M. Kinder *** Thomas H. Graham On August 30,
“A Meaningful Life” An excerpt from A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe by Todd May *** Let us start with a