At this year's confab of university presses, the Google Library project was hotly debated and the environmental and social costs of printing in China were not. (Subscription required). Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
Writing
“The Uses of Libel”
How to say rude things about politicians and get away with it--in 17th-century England, anyway. (Subscription required; I'll post a copy of the article soon, but in the meantime you can read a longish excerpt here at the History News Network.)" Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Calif. Press Will Publish Controversial Book on Israel”
A new book that attacks Alan Dershowitz will see print despite the threat of legal action from the Harvard prof. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education, reprinted in Znet.com »
“The Sounds of Silence”
When a writer goes silent, is he or she still producing a readable text? (Subscription required). Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Unraveling the Narrative”
Did the author of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano...," one of the 18th century's seminal slave narratives, fabricate his experience of life in Africa and the Middle Passage? U-MD English professor Vincent Carretta thinks maybe so, and others aren't so happy about it. Read a transcript of an online chat with Carretta. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
