Although the U.S. Supreme Court declined, just yesterday, to hear a case testing the recent battery of restrictive, state-imposed abortion laws, tomorrow it will hear oral arguments for McCullen v. Coakley—a case that may have far-reaching implications for both abortion seekers and anti-abortion activists. The …
Region-wide tumult has kept Middle East Studies researchers and scholars at attention, but professor and SUP author, Frances Hasso, asserts that the popular narrative of crisis and uprising has produced a certain tunnel vision in the field. With the rise of more short-form scholarship—video, social …
It’s a new year and a new season for Stanford University Press, which of course means a new catalog! Now available for perusing, the Spring 2014 catalog features two co-published art books, a genre-bending memoir from a Parisian psychoanalyst, a book on botched executions that …
“All protest is theater, so you better think about your protest as theater, and you better make it good theater.” —Andrew Boyd (aka Phil T. Rich) In the midst of the 2004 presidential race, an alliteratively titled protest franchise, one part guerilla theater and one …
It wasn’t until he attended secondary school in Marrakesh that Moroccan native, Aomar Boum met a Jewish person. Though as recently as the 1980s nearly a quarter of a million Jews called Morocco home, the Moroccan Jewish community today hovers just under 4,000 and most …
Il Venerdì—a weekly supplement to the Italian newspaper, La Repubblica—ran a cover story last week on Don Jon, a brazen new film that’s one part love story, one part cautionary tale about the pitfalls of pornography in modern relationships. Joseph Gordon Levitt (for whom this film …
In celebration of the year’s end and the holiday season, we’re offering a 30% discount on all print editions of our 2013 titles. That’s a whopping 100+ books all 30% off through the end of the year. Peruse our 2013 titles here, add the books you …
This evening Jay Gertzman, Loren Glass, and Boris Kachka convene at Columbia University for a powwow on personalities in postwar publishing, honing in on the audacious and censorship-averse Samuel Roth, the equally bold Barney Rosset of Grove Press, and the kingpin behind the ubiquitous three-fish colophon …
Our Q&A series with Loren Glass, Jay Gertzman and Boris Kachka continues today, as they delve more deeply into who Barney Rosset, Samuel Roth and Roger Straus were, and how each steered their respective ships (see the first in the series, Sex and Counterculture in …
