The exhibition Maps: Finding Our Place in the World will be at the Field Museum in Chicago only until January 27. Then it moves to
William Grimes reviewed Kirin Narayan’s memoir of growing up in India, My Family and Other Saints, in yesterday’s New York Times: Families can be so
Last Saturday Michael Bywater had an interesting take on Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World by Dario Maestripieri in the
“You don’t have to travel to the Brazilian rain forest to luxuriate in the biodiversity at our feet,” says Adrian Higgins in a Washington Post
Tell someone unfamiliar with the business of book publishing (and this of course describes almost everyone you meet) that you work at a university press,
In a book we published a few years back, British classicist Simon Goldhill explained the Greek and Roman roots of everything in contemporary Western culture,
Francis Ford Coppola’s newest film, Youth Without Youth, opened on both coasts last Friday. The film is based on the book of the same name
The City Room blog on the New York Times website ran a guide to holiday tipping yesterday that draws much of its advice from Peter
Every year about this time many magazine and newspaper book reviewers take a break from their regular routine to pick their “best books of the
An interesting review of Daniel S. Greenberg’s Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism is currently running in the January-February issue
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