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Harvard University Press

Book Review: “Burning the Books” — The Never-ending War on the Preservation of Knowledge

Burning the Books sometimes turns into  a disturbing chronicle of mankind’s elemental hostility to learning: barbarians often first targeted libraries and archives.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Burning the Books, Harvard University Press, Richard Ovenden

Book Review: “Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin” — Naked City

Peter L’Official has written an important book that speaks with powerful relevance to the state of Black life in America today — and the demands of Black Lives Matter.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Mark Favermann, Peter L’Official, Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin

Book Review: “Accounting for Slavery” — Plantation Roots of Scientific Management

In this valuable study, Caitlin Rosenthal isolates an assortment of business practices and technologies that reflect the sophistication of New World plantation economies — dispelling myths of their romantic crudeness.

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Accounting for Slavery, Caitlin Rosenthal, Harvard University Press, Slavery

Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance

Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview Tagged: criticism, Harvard University Press, Juliana Spahr, Literary Resistance, literature, politics, State Containment

Book Review: “After Ireland” — An Insightful Survey

The critic settles too comfortably too often on a familiar trope — Ireland’s sense of promise squelched.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: "After Ireland", Declan Kiberd, Harvard University Press, Irish Literature, Lucas Spiro

Book Review: Oscar Wilde Fights the Dying of the Light

Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years, Tom Filbin

Book Review: Richard A. Posner — A Rare Judge Who Tells Us How He Really Feels

Why didn’t a legal mind as brilliant as Richard Posner’s get to the Supreme Court? One suspects his candor and bluntness.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Antonin Scalia, Harvard University Press, Richard A. Posner, Supreme Court, The Federal Judiciary: Strengths and Weaknesses, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: Polish Poet Czesław Miłosz — Master of the Telling Detail

For a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A Biography, Andrzej Franaszek, Czesław Miłosz. Polish Literature, Harvard University Press, Miłosz

Book Review: “The Menorah” and “The Book of Aron”

Two books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Holocaust, Jim Shepard, knopf, Menorah, Stephen Fine, The Book of Aron, The Menorah From the Bible to Modern Israel

Book Review: “Just Around Midnight” — A Revelatory Look at Race and 1960s Rock and Roll

Why did rock and roll become white? Music critic Jack Hamilton’s extraordinary new book provides a challenging answer.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight, race, Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, Rock-and-Roll

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