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...
Welcome to Hailsham boarding school. Beautifully secluded in the English countryside, Hailsham embodies all that is best in traditional British values: fair play, justice and a stiff upper lip....
Helena Andrews’ Bitch is the New Black has been optioned as a movie. Which it feels more like to me in any case, in so much that a movie can be satisfying with little tidbits of revelation, music...
Jeffrey Herf teaches Modern and Contemporary European history at the University of Maryland, College Park. His book, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, was published by Yale University Press in late...
The most disturbing thing about reading Rick Perlstein's Nixonland is how little has changed. Even the names of the players themselves--some are still around, like Charlie Rangel, Donald Rumsfeld,...
Julie Powell has lead a charmed life. A former government desk-slave who turned to cooking and writing in a bid for a more exciting life, she took on the task of cooking her way through Julia...
Professor Homa Katouzian is an specialist on Iran, teaching at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Trained as an economist, Dr. Katouzian has a broad range of interests...
Despite the advances of modern science, we live in a world that remains captivated by the occult. We have put a man on the moon, cured many diseases that were once deadly, and live in a time of such...
