Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books
There is a lot of ritual involved in Buddhist practice. As more and more North Americans are discove
The Victor’s Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging ove
If Edith Sheffer‘s excellent Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain (Oxford
Everyone knows that the late nineteenth-century Russian Empire was the largest land based empire aro
A book called Southeast Asia in World History (Oxford University Press, 2009) might seem on the face
Today on “New Books in Buddhist Studies” we’ll be going to hell and back with Bryan Cuevas in a disc
If you’ve ever lived in New York City, you know exactly what a “pre-war building” is. First and fore
Today’s podcast features a book about disgusting art – that is, art that deliberately aims to cause
In his new book, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford University Press, 2011),
What can judges do to change society? Fifty-seven years ago, the Supreme Court resolved to find out:
Many entries in our lexicon have an interesting history, but it’s very seldom the case that the curr
For many Asian and Western Buddhists today, Buddhism means meditation and an embrace of the world’s
I was still in high school the year the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, 1979. I remember reading a
The Greco-Roman world was the prism through which the British viewed their imperial efforts, and Mar
Copyright is one of those topics over which even two saints disagreed. The legend has it that Saint
In our attempts to know and understand the world around us, we inevitably rely on others to provide
What was the scholastic metaphysical tradition of the later Middle Ages, and why did it come “crashi
How can those in African, Africana, and African American Studies strengthen their disciplinary ties?
What is the role of personality in shaping history? Shortly before the beginning of the First World
Here’s a simple–or should we say simplistic?–line of political reasoning: communities are made of pe
