http://chronicle.com/topic/Publishing/105/ Topics :: Publishing Wed, 23 May 2012 06:26:54 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131890/ http://chronicle.com/article/Spies-ShtarkersSex/131890/ Both grotesque anti-Semitic stereotypes and bland assimilationist mensches of yesteryear have been transmuted into multilayered, vivid characters, a new book argues.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131845/ http://chronicle.com/article/Cultural-Studies-Journal-Gets/131845/ The new editors at "Public Culture" hope to reach beyond an academic audience.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131823/ http://chronicle.com/article/Portnoys-Enduring-Complaint/131823/ A world dizzy with lust and disgust, irony and rage. Such were the literary epiphanies boomers found in Roth.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131611/ http://chronicle.com/article/Susan-Gubars-Closing-Chapters/131611/ In her memoir on ovarian cancer, the scholar confronts an elusive issue for women: telling the truth about experiences of the female body.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131479/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Byzantine-Plot/131479/ A revisionist take on the First Crusade gives the emperor of Constantinople a larger role.

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131485/ http://chronicle.com/article/Ameritopia-How-Dumb-Can/131485/ Conservatives complain, perhaps fairly, that nobody reviews their books. Be careful what you wish for.

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131427/ http://chronicle.com/article/Nota-Bene-Home-Sweet-Motel-/131427/ New books investigate the American dream as experienced by Indian-American motel owners and identity theft from the thief's perspective.

]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131360/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Bother-Writing-Book/131360/ It's better to write one good article than to review 20 books, and even better to write one good book.

]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131397/ http://chronicle.com/article/Hot-Type-An-Open-Letter-to/131397/ Dear publishers: Are you nervous? Some of you should be.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131162/ http://chronicle.com/article/My-Last-Index/131162/ In which our narrator explains why she will hire a professional indexer for her next book.

]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131157/ http://chronicle.com/article/Should-Writers-Reply-to/131157/ Get slammed in a book review? Take it in stride. Turn the other cheek. Then again ...

]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131094/ http://chronicle.com/article/Lights-Camera-Covert-Action/131094/ A new book explores the role of the CIA in TV and film.

]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130852/ http://chronicle.com/article/Scholarly-Publishing-Needs-a/130852/ "It seems to us that the standard academic publishing model is in dire need of reform."

]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130795/ http://chronicle.com/article/American-Jazz-Africas-Voice/130795/ A book recounts the revolutionary musical and cultural cross-rhythms between two continents in the 50s and 60s.

]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130863/ http://chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/130863/ Selected new books on issues related to college teaching and academe.

]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130449/ http://chronicle.com/article/Remembering-a-Golden-Age-of/130449/ A writer recalls the magical world he discovered as a boy, which remains with him still.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130454/ http://chronicle.com/article/Choosing-What-Americans-Choose/130454/ Two new books on how niche marketing and other forces circumscribe our lives.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130419/ http://chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/130419/ The latest books published on issues related to college teaching and academe.

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130381/ http://chronicle.com/article/Siege-of-the-Iliad/130381/ Great Zeus! Why so many translations?

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130287/ http://chronicle.com/article/Monumental-Egyptologists/130287/ In two new biographies, the wild early days of archaeology in Egypt contrast with its establishment as an academic discipline.

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130157/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Q-Factor/130157/ While declining markets have curtailed publishing in queer studies, the world still needs queering.

]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130065/ http://chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/130065/ A selection of new books of interest in higher education.

]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130030/ http://chronicle.com/article/Fans-of-Friedrich/130030/ A new book chronicles how Americans have gone nuts over Nietzsche. And Stanford University Press fans the flames with the icon's Complete Works.

]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129776/ http://chronicle.com/article/Remembering-Morris-Philipson/129776/ The press Mr. Philipson ran reflected his taste and judgment, high standards, and attention to detail. He dealt with his writers as equals.

]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:30:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129696/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Life-of-Controversy/129696/ A new book on Margaret Sanger, the birth-control advocate, takes an unapologetic look at her motivations as well as her links to the eugenics movement.

]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129698/ http://chronicle.com/article/American-Readers-Translation/129698/ We're missing out on a world of fascinating books.

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