Author: Guest Author

Islamist Transformations of Ottoman History, Culture and Literature: Between Scholarship and Politics

This is a guest post by Kemal Silay, author of Origins of the Ottoman Dynasty: A Philological Exploration of Its Earliest Account Whether wholeheartedly embraced by the modern Turkish generation (or even by Turkish historiography itself) or not, Turkey’s Ottoman…

Entering an Immersive World of News

This is an interview by John V. Pavlik, author of Journalism and the Metaverse Q1. What exactly is the Metaverse? Answer: There is no single, agreed-upon definition of the Metaverse. Nor is there agreement about how it will be designed…

Examining the Crossroads of Crime Writing

This is a guest post by Meghan P. Nolan & Rebecca Martin, author of The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces There is no doubt that crime writing is now one of the most widely read genres…

Philosophy, Rhetoric and Aesthetics

This is a guest post by Paul Allen Miller, author of Theory Does Not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric The world we live in is not that of Plato’s Socrates. It is a world…

America’s Once and Future King

This is a guest post by W. B. Allen, author of Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws: A Critical Edition My new translation of and commentary on Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws has been recently released (Anthem). I prepared the work…

A Life with Wittgenstein

This is a guest post by Peter Hacker, author of A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein Wittgenstein studies flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, as philosophers struggled with the interpretation of his two great…

Reflections on Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by way of an imagined interview by Vijay Mishra

1.Why this book? Only 400,000 people worldwide speak Fiji Hindi. Of that number, less than half read the Devanagari (Sanskrit) script in which this language is written. There was then a challenge: How to expose this language to a wider…

Clarence Thomas Among the Bohemians by Robert Holton

Recent news reports about the relationship between conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and ultra-wealthy conservative activists such as billionaires Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers have revealed many interesting details and raised a number of questions, but one…