Alex von Tunzelmann, Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean , Henry Holt and Co, 2011. Americans remain fascinated by the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the fall of 1962, American...
Judy Chicago and Frances Borzello, Frida Kahlo: Face to Face, Prestel Publishing, 2010 The name “Frida Kahlo” tends to provoke a passionate response among art fans and feminists alike. At...
Laurie Penny is an English journalist who came into the public eye last year with her gripping coverage of the student protests and occupations. She writes a column for the New Statesman, as well...
Lee-Ann Monk, Attending Madness: at work in the Australian colonial asylum, Rudopi, 2008. In Attending Madness (Rodopi, 2008), Lee-Ann Monk explores the lives and identities of asylum attendants...
Gregory Jusdanis, Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature. Stanford UP, 2010. Is literature dead or dying? What comes after the book? Are people still interested in stories? These are just some...
If there is one thing that is obvious from Karen Joy Fowler’s work to date, it is that she likes books. The Jane Austen Book Club, for which she is chiefly known (it spent quite some time on the...
Susan Stryker, Transgender History, Seal Press, 2008. Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, eds. Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press, 2010. The feminist press Seal has carved out a...
Lisa Rose Mar, Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era 1885-1945 (Oxford University Press, 201o). In Brokering Belonging, Lisa Rose Mar brings a fresh perspective to Chinese-Canadian...
The Verso Book of Dissent, Ed. Andrew Hsiao and Andrea Lim, Verso, 2010. The Idea of Communism, Ed. Coustas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek, Verso, 2010. Stephen Colbert once famously said that...
Emma Donoghue. Room: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company: New York, 2010. Disclaimer: Room is a novel that is impossible to discuss without revealing some plot points. Consider yourself warned. We...
