Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know
McCarty argues that the outcome of the 2016 election was not as surprising as first thought. Continue Reading →
Category: Books 2020
The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language
Chenoweth explores how the emergence of printing technology in the 16th century led the French language to undergo a remarkable transformation. Continue Reading →
Cervantes’ Persiles and the Travails of Romance
This edited volume explores Cervantes’ final novel and its treatment of concepts of race, ethnicity, nation and religion. Continue Reading →
BREATHE: A Letter to My Sons
Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see black children as deserving of humanity. Continue Reading →
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
This first-hand account traces the discovery of a crystal so bizarre that it was thought not to exist in nature. Continue Reading →
Ornamentalism
Cheng links the making of Asiatic femininity and a technological history of synthetic personhood in the West from the 19th to the 21st century. Continue Reading →