October 06, 2015
September 06, 2015
Robert Pollin, the author of Greening the Global Economy, pens an essay for The Nation titled "Think We Can’t Stabilize the Climate While Fostering Growth? Think Again."
September 03, 2015
In the Los Angeles Tiimes, Mindware author Richard Nisbett explains what it means to think like an economist
August 24, 2015
Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of Give and Take and Original, listed Richard Nisbett's Mindware as part of his list of 7 New Books to Read This Fall.
August 14, 2015
When asked by the New York Times which writers he considers to be the best, Ta-Nehisi Coates listed Elizabeth Kolbert (author of The Sixth Extinction) among his favorites. Coates said, "On most days out of the week I think Elizabeth Kolbert is the best nonfiction writer going."
August 14, 2015
The 2015 Whiting Award-winning poets—Jenny Johnson, Anthony Carelli, Aracelis Girmay and Roger Reeves—read their work in Bryant Park, as part of New York's Word for Word poetry series.
via The Guardian
August 13, 2015
The Hollywood Reporter reported that President Obama brought alongThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert on his extended late-summer holiday on Martha’s Vineyard — he arrived on Aug. 7 and he’s staying until Aug. 23.
April 20, 2015
Elizabeth Kolbert won this year's Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2015-General-Nonfiction
March 24, 2015
Elizabeth Kolbert, Teju Cole, Phil Klay, Claudia Rankine and many others have been longlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards.
March 24, 2015
Congratulations to Dave Arnold of Booker & Dax on his James Beard nomination for LIQUID INTELLIGENCE: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail (W.W. Norton).
March 16, 2015
Lev Grossman of Time writes of The Death of Caesar by Barry Strauss:
“[A] compelling, clarifying account of one of history’s most dramatic assassinations…Strauss deploys his sources judiciously: he explains their biases and blind spots and when and how they disagree…Although he’s an academic, Strauss has, like Caesar, the common touch: he conveys the complexity of late republican Roman politics while keeping up a lively pace. He’s also a deft portraitist. Roman history can read like an endless parade of marble statues, but in The Death of Caesar, the players are all vibrant individuals, and none more so than Caesar himself.” Lev Grossman, Time
March 15, 2015
Rave Ides of March review by Greg Woolf in the Wall Street Journal of Barry Strauss's The Death of Caesar: "The last bloody day of the Republic has never been painted so brilliantly."