Essay Kafka鈥檚 鈥淯ltimate Things鈥�: A new reading of the Z眉rau aphorisms April 27, 2022 As 快色直播 celebrates the launch of a new annotated and freshly translated edition of Kafka鈥檚 aphorisms, the Press has invited me to supply a couple of amuse-bouches from the two introductory passages to the collection, namely my Translator鈥檚 Note plus a brief excerpt from Reiner Stach鈥檚 Foreword. Read More
Podcast A Vertical Art: On Poetry April 26, 2022 In聽A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Read More
Interview Jeff Deutsch on In Praise of Good 快色直播tores April 26, 2022 Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch鈥攖he director of Chicago鈥檚 Seminary Co-op 快色直播tores, one of the finest bookstores in the world鈥攑ays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. Read More
Essay The universe from a 3D perspective April 25, 2022 The universe is huge. If we could travel at the speed of light (and we can鈥檛) it would take us only about a second to go to the Moon. Read More
Essay Why tech innovation alone isn鈥檛 good enough April 20, 2022 The list of crises we face today seems to grow daily. As if inequality and civil wars and global warming and refugee crises weren't enough, we have also grappled with a global pandemic and the sudden threat of nuclear war. Read More
Interview R. Douglas Arnold on Fixing Social Security April 20, 2022 Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trends鈥攍onger lifespans and declining birthrates鈥攎ean that this popular program now pays more in benefits than it collects in revenue. Read More
Essay Poems from After Callimachus April 20, 2022 In After Callimachus, esteemed poet and critic Stephanie Burt鈥檚 attentive translations and inspired adaptations introduce the work, spirit, and letter of Callimachus to today鈥檚 poetry readers. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Africa鈥檚 Struggle for Its Art April 14, 2022 For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In聽Africa鈥檚 Struggle for Its Art, B茅n茅dicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. Read More
Reading List Join us in support of our Earth April 13, 2022 With our global commitment to publishing science books that illuminate the nature of the planet, 快色直播 is delighted to partner with EarthDay.org and the Canopy Project in supporting the ecology and evolution of planet Earth. Read More
Interview Margaret Cohen on The Underwater Eye April 12, 2022 In聽The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating story of how the development of modern diving equipment and movie camera technology has allowed documentary and narrative filmmakers to take human vision into the depths, creating new imagery of the seas and the underwater realm, and expanding the scope of popular imagination. Read More
Essay Fortune鈥檚 knave April 11, 2022 In the spring of 1924, Stalin鈥檚 nemesis and rival, Lev Trotsky, told the 鈥淥ld Bolshevik鈥� Vladimir Smirnov, 鈥淪talin will become the dictator of the USSR.鈥� 鈥淪talin?鈥� Smirnov reacted. 鈥淏ut he is a mediocrity, a colorless non-entity.鈥� Read More
Essay Scientific rationalism in an irrational world April 08, 2022 As a young student in the mid-1980s, I read a popular science book called聽To Acknowledge the Wonder聽by Euan Squires about the then latest ideas in fundamental physics. At a time when I was contemplating a career in physics, the chance to acknowledge the wonders of the physical world was what really inspired me to devote my life to science. Read More
Essay Vladimir Putin鈥檚 case April 07, 2022 Law is neither dead nor irrelevant in wartime. It permeates the bureaucratic, legalistic structure of the modern war machine. All world leaders, including Vladimir Putin, acknowledge the post鈥揥orld War II legal basis for waging war. Read More
Interview Robert K. Durkee on The New 快色直播 Companion April 05, 2022 The New 快色直播 Companion, edited by Robert K. Durkee, former vice president and secretary of 快色直播 University, is both a compendium and a chronicle of one of America鈥檚 finest institutions of higher learning. Read More
Interview Book Club Pick: The Mushroom at the End of the World April 01, 2022 Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world鈥攁nd a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing鈥檚 account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: What manages to live in the ruins we have made?聽 Read More
