Author Archives: stuartelden

Paul A. Bové, Love’s Shadow – Harvard University Press, January 2021 A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love. Literary criticism is an agent of … Continue reading →

Nathalie Sowa, ‘Ten Things I’ve Learned Designing for a University Press‘, University of Chicago Press, Blog We’re often introduced to a book through its cover. Catching our eye on a bookstore display, in a social media post, or shared by … Continue reading →

Richard Phillips and Helen Kara, Creative Writing for Social Research: A Practical Guide – Policy Press, 2021 This groundbreaking book brings creative writing to social research. Its innovative format includes creatively written contributions by researchers from a range of disciplines, … Continue reading →

Fanny Söderbäck, Revolutionary Time: On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray – SUNY Press, 2019 Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray. This book is the first … Continue reading →

H. Glenn Penny, In Humboldt’s Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology – Princeton University Press, 2021 The Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world’s largest and most important anthropological museums, housing more than a half million objects collected … Continue reading →

Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past – Bristol University Press, April 2021  Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They … Continue reading →

Klaus Dodds, Border Wars: The Conflicts that will Define our Future – Ebury Press, February 2021 Can Donald Trump really build that wall? What does Brexit mean for Ireland’s border? And what would happen if Elon Musk declared himself president … Continue reading →