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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Afew days ago in Pasadena, reading the Letters section of the Los Angeles Times, I learned (via a letter from four former editors of the Book Review) that Sam Zell and his people—who took over the Tribune Co. a while back—have decided to kill the section. The timing is interesting, since the Books section of the Chicago Tribune has for several weeks featured a little box asking "What are you looking for in a books section?" Under longtime literary editor Elizabeth Taylor, the Tribune has had an excellent Books section, one that is clearly rooted in Chicago and the Midwest more generally while never seeming parochial. Alas, in a cost-cutting move, the Tribune's bosses have already been weakening the section by reprinting reviews from other Tribune Co. properties as well as from assorted miscellaneous sources, so that what's original to the Trib's own section keeps shrinking. Somehow I don't think it's going to get better in September, when the paper unveils its new, slimmed-down look.
Here at Books & Culture we still think books are important (whether you are reading them in traditional form or via Kindle or absorbing them through your skin). And speaking of Chicagoland, our Book of the Week—Collections of Nothing, a memoir by William Davies King—comes from the University of Chicago Press, one of the glories of American publishing, long may they prosper. In this wonderfully odd and lapidary little book, reviewer Linda McCullough Moore finds intimations that our deepest hopes are not in vain.
In articles from the July/August issue of Books & Culture, Alvin Plantinga explains why evolution and naturalism, far from being mutually supportive, are more like oil and water, while Douglas Groothuis reports on the latest skirmishes in the great debate between atheists and believers.
Thanks for reading.
John Wilson
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Upinder Singh’s A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India
Bibliofile : outlookindia.com
This is one five-star launch nobody wants to miss. The Prime Minister will be there, so will his wife, Gurcharan Kaur. And it’s not one of those titles where the hype about the advance or author is bigger than the book itself. It’ll also probably be the first time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attends a book event without doing the honours. Instead, he’ll be sitting in the front row as a proud father. To no one’s surprise, the launch of historian Upinder Singh’s A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India early next month won’t be held at 7, Race Course Road. Instead, her publisher, Pearson, has wisely decided to go in for a five-star book party to cash in on their power list of invitees and the controversy the book is generating.
This is one five-star launch nobody wants to miss. The Prime Minister will be there, so will his wife, Gurcharan Kaur. And it’s not one of those titles where the hype about the advance or author is bigger than the book itself. It’ll also probably be the first time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attends a book event without doing the honours. Instead, he’ll be sitting in the front row as a proud father. To no one’s surprise, the launch of historian Upinder Singh’s A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India early next month won’t be held at 7, Race Course Road. Instead, her publisher, Pearson, has wisely decided to go in for a five-star book party to cash in on their power list of invitees and the controversy the book is generating.
Monday, July 7, 2008
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