This guest post is published around the Association for Asian Studies conference in Washington D.C., occurring March 22-25, 2018. #AAS2018 In the eighteenth-century, the scholar Mirza Khan observed that India had many languages, …
Read More >Some of the most important works of world literature are epic poems from antiquity, so what would National Poetry Month be without a little Homer? Just published, this swift and vivid new …
Read More >This weekend marks the one year anniversary of the largest single day protest in US history—the Women’s March—when on January 21, 2017, 4.2 million people marched across the US in more than 600 US …
Read More >As 2017 draws to a close, we’ve compiled ten blog posts that resonated most with our readers over the past year. Popular blog themes closely mirrored current events, and the state of …
Read More >Jerome Rothenberg changed the course of poetics with the opening statement to his landmark anthology, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries From Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania: “Primitive means complex.” …
Read More >This post is published in advance of the American Society of Criminology conference in Philadelphia, occurring November 15-18. #ASCPhilly Joachim Savelsberg recently spoke at a symposium on power in international criminal justice. The event, held …
Read More >excerpted from A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries by Henry Notaker This October we are celebrating National Cookbook Month by exploring the history of the cookbook genre. Check back …
Read More >In this new translation of Hesiod, acclaimed translator Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. An exciting introduction to …
Read More >Fifty years ago, when I was assembling and then publishing the first edition of Technicians of the Sacred, my concentration was on the poetry foremost, the sense that came to me as …
Read More >By Sara L. Schwebel, editor of Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader’s Edition While preparing Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader’s Edition, I was shocked to learn how …
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