http://www.lovethebook.com/ The latest from the lovethebook.com rss feeds: book news, book notes and book awards. A major figure in comparative ethnic studies, the groundbreaking historian Ronald Takaki died last month taking his own life after battling multiple sclerosis for 15 years. "As a schol... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=146 Monday, June 08, 2009 In her foreword to “The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts,” an important collection of articles on United States militarism and imperialism, edited by Catherine Lutz, the prominent feminist writer Cynthia Enloe notes on... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=145 Friday, May 29, 2009 New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer has received the 2009 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism for her book http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=112 Tuesday, May 12, 2009 A veteran political journalist and author, William Greider has been a reporter for more than 35 years for newspapers, magazines and television where he has persistently challenged mainstream thinki... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=144 Saturday, May 09, 2009 There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give ... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=111 Thursday, May 07, 2009 If they ever decide to put a fifth face on Mount Rushmore, I would nominate Pete Seeger. He is one of the great sons of this country. - Harry Belafonte in tribute to folk legend and political activist Pete Seeger at his induction to the Rock a... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=143 Monday, May 04, 2009 In the year 1896, my great-uncle, one of the first Catholic priests of aboriginal blood, put the call out to his parishioners that they should gather at Saint Joseph's wearing scapulars and holding missals. From that place they would proceed to walk ... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=110 Sunday, April 26, 2009 Hugo Chávez knows how to promote progressive books. He has gifted Barack Obama with Eduardo Galeano http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=142 Tuesday, April 21, 2009 University of Chicago Professor of Geophysical Sciences, David Archer, has been chosen as the 2009 winner of the Walter P. Kistler B... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=109 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 The jury, as if often the case, saw through the political subterfuge to the root of the problem, which was that Churchill’s body of writing (much of which has been groundbreaking, such as his 1988 book “Agents of Repression”, co-authored with Jim Van... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=141 Friday, April 10, 2009 John Hope Franklin's 1947 book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, was the seminal text on the black experience in the U.S. ... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=140 Sunday, March 29, 2009 The Academy of American Poets has announced that Avi Sharon has been chosen by the poet and translator John Balaban as the 2009 http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=108 Thursday, March 26, 2009 Columbia University has announced that Thomas G. Andrews and two other authors have won the Bancroft Prize for 2009. The Bancroft prize has been awarded since 1948 to the authors of books of... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=107 Sunday, March 22, 2009 One of the world's foremost economists specialising in development economics, Ha-Joon Chang has recently published his latest book, Bad Samaritans The ... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=139 Wednesday, March 11, 2009 "New York is not what most people imagine it to be. Just as marriage, family, friendship and manhood are not. Netherland is suspenseful, artful, psychologically pitch-perfect, and a wonderful read. But more than any of that, it's revelatory. Jose... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=106 Friday, February 27, 2009 Unlike the ships, which plied back and forth, though, the human commodities followed a relentlessly linear course: the direction of their transatlantic movement never reversed. Ships traced circles. Commodities traveled in a straight line. http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=105 Saturday, February 21, 2009 Born in 1929 in the Northern Province of Sudan, Tayeb Salih achieved immediate fame in 1966 when his novel. Season of Migration to the North was first pub... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=138 Friday, February 20, 2009 BILL MOYERS: Very often in the White House, the most momentous decisions are, at the time, the least dramatic, the least discussed. And they don't make news, or history, until much later, when their consequences bubble to the surface down... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=137 Wednesday, February 04, 2009 "Updike on Williams is a stirring spectacle. It always is when one genius lionizes another." In the wake of the recent death of author extraordinaire John Updike, "the kaleidoscopically gifted write... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=136 Saturday, January 31, 2009 "Sebastian Barry has created one of the great narrative voices in contemporary fiction in The Secret Scripture. It is a book of great brilliance, powerfully and beautifully written." - Matthew Parris, ... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=104 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Author, radio host, actor, activist and labor organizer, Studs Terkel died last week aged 96. Best known as the ground-breaking oral historian who, for decades, recorded the lives of ordinary working-class Americans, Studs Terkel was foremost in establishing oral history as both a popular and serious literary genre. http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=220 Monday, November 10, 2008 Although it is the global financial crash that is the major story in the news these days, Jared Diamond's Collapse reminds us of an even greater crash to ... http://www.lovethebook.com/lists.aspx?booklist=Andrew+Ellson+Picks+Six+Books+on+Cash+Crashes Monday, October 06, 2008 An excerpt from Charles Peters' Five Days in Philadelphia, one book on Jeff Greenfield 's list of the five best political convention books: http://www.lovethebook.com/lists.aspx?booklist=5+Best+Political+Convention+Books+by+Jeff+Greenfield Wednesday, August 27, 2008 "You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it's as if she had never been born." http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=219 Saturday, March 01, 2008 Food’s under attack from two quarters. It’s under attack from the food industry, which is taking, you know, perfectly good whole foods and tricking them up into highly processed edible food-like substances, and from nutritional science, which has over the years convinced us that we shouldn’t be paying attention to food, it’s really the nutrients that matter. http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=218 Saturday, February 16, 2008