By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn It may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In …
Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In this boldly lyrical translation, C. Luke Soucy revives the magnum opus of Rome’s most clever and creative poet, faithfully matching the …
This interview was originally published on New Books Network and an excerpted version is reposted here with permission. Hello and welcome to New Books in Middle Eastern Studies. I am your host, …
Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret …
Daniel Jaffee’s UNBOTTLED looks at the impact of bottled water on social justice and sustainability, and the diverse movements challenging its continued growth.
Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian …
Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of …
The California Series in Public Anthropology is a groundbreaking collection of books that share a common goal: to emphasize the anthropologist’s role as an engaged intellectual. Books in the series affirm anthropology’s …