02/01/2008
The Globe and Mail’s January 26th Books section featured critiques of the new crop of major books examining the social and political issues surrounding terrorism. Leaderless Jihad, the forthcoming book… READ MORE
01/31/2008
A review of Jean E. Howard’s Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642 appears in the January 18th Times Literary Supplement. In the review, Duncan Salkeld praises… READ MORE
01/22/2008
"[Marc] Sageman takes the common sense view that you can’t defeat an enemy until you know them and understand what drives them," writes David Isenberg in an Asia Times review… READ MORE
01/17/2008
As schools and other cultural institutions prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with service, ceremony, and perhaps a little sleeping in, "The Prophet Reconsidered," a book review in… READ MORE
01/10/2008
In a Daily Jewish Forward review of Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography, Miriam Shaviv asks why the former "golden boy" of Israel has faded into relative obscurity.
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life is number 6 in Foreword magazine’s annual list of Outstanding University Press Books. Critic Peter Skinner writes: David skillfully analyzes Kemble’s love-hate relationship… READ MORE
01/03/2008
The most recent volume of The Michigan Historical Review praises Robert Dale Parker, editor of The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,… READ MORE
12/21/2007
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life has earned a "highly recommended" rating from Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. According to Choice reviewer D. B. Wilmeth, "this scholarly, erudite, and thorough… READ MORE
11/28/2007
In the December/January Bookforum, reviewer Anthony Grafton calls William H. Sherman’s Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England "learned and lively. . . the first comprehensive account of the ways… READ MORE
11/13/2007
More praise for Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice appears in the November volume of Sociological Inquiry. … READ MORE
