Interview Helen Pearson on Beyond Belief April 30, 2026 Helen Pearson tells the story of the evidence revolution鈥攁 worldwide movement that promotes evidence-based thinking鈥攁nd shows how it can help us all, especially in an age of alternative facts. Read More
The Bollingen Series then and now April 29, 2026 The Bollingen Series, a collection of 275 volumes with the聽Collected Works of聽C.G.聽Jung聽as its centerpiece, has been published by聽快色直播 since 1969. Read More
Interview Roland Betancourt on Disneyland and the Rise of Automation April 23, 2026 Roland Betancourt traces how Disneyland became a proving ground for automation at the very moment the American public was most anxious about its consequences. Read More
Interview Catherine Fletcher on The Firearm Revolution April 22, 2026 Catherine Fletcher explores the emergence of firearms in Renaissance Italy and beyond, describing the social transformations that accompanied the evolution of the handgun from innovative military technology to widely used personal accessory. Read More
Interview Peter N. Miller on Conservation as a Human Science April 22, 2026 Conservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic book, the historian Peter N. Miller imagines the outlines of a new, expansive notion of conservation that links the world around us鈥攏atural and man-made鈥攖o the world inside us鈥攐ur genome, our memories. Read More
Essay Succubus (2024): Female monstrosity in the age of AI April 20, 2026 Recently, I watched Succubus (2024); I decided to watch it because, historically, the succubus tradition has some tangency with the tradition of female monstrosity that animates my forthcoming book, Monstrous Bitch, which is the tradition of the Lamia. Read More
Interview Annie McClanahan on Beneath the Wage April 17, 2026 Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. Read More
Essay Drag Me to Hell (2009) April 14, 2026 Not all of the 鈥渆levated鈥� horror coming out right now is doing right by us, nor even by cultural history. Drag Me to Hell (2009) is a film animated by exactly the wrong amount of research. Read More
Essay Publishing for planners: A new era for Island Press April 08, 2026 As the legendary legacy publisher transitions into a new life phase, publisher Heather Boyer and senior editor Stacy Eisenstark reflect on the past and the future of creating books for planners. Read More
Essay Ideas in action: Island Press and PUP April 01, 2026 Island Press began with a simple idea:聽knowledge is power鈥攖he power to imagine a better future and find ways to get us there. Together Island Press and 快色直播 are determined to line the path to our resilient future with the books that contain the nutrients we need: ideas and expertise. Read More
Interview Andrew H. Knoll on Earth and Life April 01, 2026 How did the world as we know it鈥攆rom the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us鈥攃ome to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Read More
Interview Mark Peterson on The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution March 25, 2026 Mark Peterson discusses The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History, his provocative new history of America鈥檚 constitution and urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined. Read More
Interview Leslie Umberger on Grandma Moses March 24, 2026 Leslie Umberger is coauthor (along with Randall R. Griffey) of Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work, a major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American master. Read More
Essay The human (or bat, or abalone) experience March 24, 2026 In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel published a now-famous paper titled 鈥淲hat is it Like to be a Bat?鈥�. By imagining how another species experiences the world, Nagel hoped to explore the the notion of consciousness itself. Read More
Essay Novel innovations and new spaces of possibility March 18, 2026 In 1901 Greek fishermen diving for sponges discovered a bronze device, long encrusted with sea life, buried in the wreck of an ancient Greek boat. This mechanism is far too sophisticated not to have been preceded by more primitive devices. Read More
