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Oxford University Press

Book Review: “Drawing the Line” — How to Respond to “Immoral” Artists

Drawing the Line is grounded in the work of ethicists and psychologists. Its prose is clear and its arguments systematic. But every avenue of investigation only opens up another pathway that ends as a cul-de-sac or doubles back on itself.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Drawing the Line, Erich Hatala Matthes, Oxford University Press, Steve Provizer

Book Review: “Walk With Me” — The Heroism of Fannie Lou Hamer

A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Fannie Lou Hamer, Jim Kates, Kate Clifford Larson., Oxford University Press

Book Interview: Translator Brian Nelson on Finally Hearing Émile Zola’s Voice in English

“Why read Zola now? Leaving aside sheer enjoyment of his narrative art, I’d say: because his representation of society’s impact on the individuals within it memorably depicts what it means to be a human being in the modern world.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: 19th century French literature, Brian Nelson, Oxford University Press, translation, Zola

Book Interview: Translator Julie Rose on the Lyrical Power of Émile Zola’s “Doctor Pascal”

Published in August of 2020, Oxford University Press’s English translation of Doctor Pascal marked the first time that Émile Zola’s 20-book Les Rougon-Macquart series was available in print under one publisher.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Doctor Pascal, Earth, Emile Zola, Julie Rose, Oxford University Press

Book Review: “The Making of the American Creative Class” — Unions, Their Rise and Fall

This history of union activity among white-collar workers in New York City tells an illuminating story about creative labor’s effort to be treated with respect by the powerful.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: New York's Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism, Oxford University Press, Shannan Clark, Steve Provizer, The Making of the American Creative Class

Book Review: “The Movement” — The Struggle for Civil Rights, Abbreviated

The Movement works best as a stripped-down, high-speed introduction to the struggle for civil rights, nothing more.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: civil rights, Oxford University Press, The Movement, Thomas C. Holt

Book Review: “Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back” — “Jews, Write and Record.”

An unabridged text of an incisive, harrowing, and absorbing eyewitness account of the Gulag has finally been published in English translation.

By: Harry Merritt Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: forced prison labor, Harry Merritt, Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag, Julius Margolin., Oxford University Press, Soviet Gulag, Timothy Snyder

Book Review: “Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong” — The King of All Kings

He may be extreme as a polemicist, but Ricky Riccardi shines when he sticks to jazz’s history. 

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, Oxford University Press

Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War”

“Politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Blake Maddux, Democracy, Heather Cox Richardson, Oligarchy, Oxford University Press, Soul of America

Book Review: The ‘Papa’ of Male Modern Dance, Ted Shawn — A Story of Changing Norms

In this new biography, Ted Shawn is on display in all his narcissism, paternalism, hypocrisy, originality, and the dedication to creative expression that set American modern dance on its way.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Oxford University Press, Paul A. Scolieri, Ted Shawn

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