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…
Some thoughts on the writing of Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by Vijay Mishra
I came to this book very much towards the end of my academic career. For many years, I had written on the Indian diaspora with, where possible, an emphasis on the old sugar plantation diaspora that began with the movement…
Reinventing Mary Wollstonecraft for the Twenty-first Century by Brenda Ayres
In 2017, I wrote Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, identifying the disparities between 18 major biographies that reinvented Mary Wollstonecraft with each retelling of her life. In that book, I alluded to 16 other biographies as well…