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Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've just discovered that the University of Chicago Press is publishing a novel by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt this fall. I first came across Dürrenmatt when I read his play The Physicists, which is set in a mental asylum and involved inmates the atomic bomb and who believe they are Einstein, Newton, and Möbius. It's a thoughtful, tight read, for anyone who's interested. The U of C publishes...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | yesterday
( University of Chicago Press Journals ) A new study published in the December issue of the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology finds that an increase in average temperature of only two degrees Celsius could have a devastating effect on populations of Australia's iconic kangaroos.
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University of Chicago News Office (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
One of the works of French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, was published by the University of Chicago Press and translated by an employee of the Press.Among the dozen works by Le Clézio translated into Eng ...
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Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
At Terry Teachout's urging I've been periodically reading the “Parker” novels of Richard Stark, one of the pen names used by the prolific, 75-year-old Donald Westlake. I wrote about the experience here , and was pleased to learn the University of Chicago Press is reissuing the Parker series starting with the first, The Hunter , from 1962. They’re unlike any other novels I know. The prose is spare but...
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FIRST THINGS (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon, Stewart Davenport (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago), 2008. What is the theological significance of wealth and its production? The debate rages over this issue in American public life today. But the debate is not new. It is quite ancient, and has only grown in complexity and precision in recent times. A particularly [...]
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Voracious reader Bruce Grossman is up at the Bookgasm site with a new piece about the University of Chicago Press’ recent reissues of Richard Stark’s (aka Donald E. Westlake’s) first three Parker novels--The Hunter, The Man with the Getaway Face, and The Outfit. “I, for one, am just pleased as punch that this series is getting a much-needed touchup,” writes Grossman. There’s more on these
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Just In Just Out (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
University of Chicago Press new titles listing for 09/04/08 on topics:Literature, Science General, Economics, Philology and Linguistics, Political Science, History, Law, Architecture, Film/Media Studies, Library Science and Publishing, Philosophy, Asian Studies, Ecology/Environmental Studies, Biography More...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
( University of Chicago Press Journals ) Researchers show how sheep on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland respond to two consequences of climate change: altered food availability and the unpredictability of winter storms. When times are good, lambs contribute almost twice as much to population size. The oldest sheep contribute most to population growth when conditions are harsh. New mathematical...
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Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
The Mysterious X (1913). Each film is interlocked with so many other films. You can’t get away. Whatever you do now that you think is new was already done in 1913. Martin Scorsese, quoted in Scorsese by Ebert (University of Chicago Press, 2008), 219. DB here: Most historical events don’t abide by clocks and calendars. Seldom does a [...]
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Cambridge Forecast Group Blog (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Ivo Andric - The Bridge on the Drina Product Details: Paperback: 318 pages Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (August 15, 1977) Language: English ISBN-10: 0226020452 ISBN-13: 978-0226020457 Andric (1892-1975) received a Nobel Prize in literature in 1961 The Great Yugoslav Novel On Being Forced into the “world system” Perhaps the main character is [...]
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
( University of Chicago Press Journals ) As portion sizes have increased, Americans' waistlines have expanded. And as a new study demonstrates, consumers are tricked into drinking more soft drinks when retailers eliminate small drink sizes.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
( University of Chicago Press Journals ) People are more likely to reuse hotel towels if they know other guests are doing it too.
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Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
PHOTO: Man anally penetrating and masturbating a male prostitute (the chrysanthemum pattern on the quilt symbolizes the anus) from p. 92 of book by Stephen O. Murray, "Homosexualities," University of Chicago Press, 2000 . The author questions the bisexual behavior or identity of those in involved in wakashu-do as wakashu or as nenja. The warrior caste predominated prior to the unification of Japan...
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Clapham Omnibus (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
(Matt Houlbrook, University of Chicago Press, 2006) The beautiful image on the cover seduced me into buying this book (and I felt the need for some educational reading). It’s a fascinating read; most enjoyable and informative. I loved the way Houlbrook itemises the particular geography of queer London, and has even sourced photos of historic queer places (largely from police records, it would appear)....
