Small-town American: Finding community, shaping the future by Robert Wuthnow

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Catherine Zandonella

More than 30 million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have chosen to join the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to better Continue Reading →

Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial transition in post-dictatorship Latin America by Susana Draper

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Catherine Zandonella

During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the post dictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of Continue Reading →

360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story by Sean Wilentz

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Catherine Zandonella

For 125 years, Columbia Records has remained one of the most vibrant and storied names in prerecorded sound, nurturing the careers of legends such as Bessie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Continue Reading →

After the Music Stopped: The financial crisis, the response, and the work ahead by Alan Blinder

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Catherine Zandonella

Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history — books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Continue Reading →

Meme by Susan Wheeler

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Catherine Zandonella

Acclaimed poet Susan Wheeler, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, whose last individual collection predicted the spiritual losses of the economic collapse, turns her attention to the most intimate of Continue Reading →

Kripke by John Burgess

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Catherine Zandonella

Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary Continue Reading →

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