Jeffrey Kripal, author of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion was featured last Wednesday on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed. Kripal was joined
Drawing on interviews with Washington insiders and astute analysis of mainstream reportage, When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to
The May 9 Sydney Morning Herald includes an excellent review of James Attlee’s new book, Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey. Praising Attlee for his ability
The American Academy of the Arts and Sciences has announced the selection of their 2007 fellows. We were pleased to note that eleven University of
In The Discovery of Insulin—a brilliant, definitive history of one of the most significant and controversial medical events of modern times—award-winning historian Michael Bliss brings
Two University of Chicago Press authors were honored last Tuesday at the Society of Midland Author’s annual awards ceremony. Roger Ebert’s Awake in the Dark:
"When a film is not a document, it is a dream. … At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame
For thousands of years, both scientists and novices alike underestimated the enormous diversity of life in the deep seas. And until recently, they were right—or
At its award ceremony on Monday, April 30, the University of Chicago Press awarded the 2006 Gordon J. Laing Prize to W. J. T. Mitchell,
Yesterday’s New York Sun features a review of Rémi Brague’s new book The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea. Comparing Brague’s newest