Category: Publishing Industry News

This is an author interview by Keith McDonald and Wayne Johnson, authors of The Spectral West: Super-Nature and the Gothic and the Western Film   Q1. What was the importance of writing this book now? The Western has always been cyclical in terms of its popularity and the ways that it responds to socio/political/cultural tensions. […]

This is an interview with Sarah Murray and Lachlan Umbers, editors of Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy What inspired this edited collection on Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy? Australian democracy depends fundamentally upon an active, engaged citizenry. In this respect, however, Australian democracy appears to be in decline. The percentage of citizens on the electoral […]

Nathan Wainstein interviews Bryan Counter, author of Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience Nathan Wainstein: At the outset of the book, you say that it ‘will approach aesthetic experience with a focus on life’. I find this interest in immediate or actual life, as opposed to the more curated encounters that we have with individual artworks, […]

This is an author interview by Fernando G Herrero, author of The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect.  What was the assembling idea behind this work? I was in the middle of the PhD at Duke University in the late-1990s after Wake Forest University, the University of Wales, Swansea and the University of Salamanca […]

This is an interview by Galina M. Yemelianova, author of Islamic Leadership and the State in Eurasia Q1: Why did you write this book now? Answer: Since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, Islam and Islamism have been at the centre of media, political and academic debate in the West. This […]

Dubai-based Art Historian Maie El-Hage speaks to Sophie Kazan Makhlouf about her forthcoming book, The Development of An Art History in the UAE: An Art Not Made To Be Understood. ME-H: Though I know you have been writing articles and papers for a while, this is your first book, which is about the development of […]

This is an interview by Jean-Louis CLARET, author of Picturing Shakespeare Q1. What urges you to illustrate Shakespeare? It is difficult to determine this precisely, but I feel that I need to show, with shapes and colours, parts of my personal experience with Shakespeare’s dramatic world. It results from an encounter with the texts. There […]

This is an interview by Matthew Calarco, author of How Not to Be Human: The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson Jeffers 1.Who is Robinson Jeffers, and how did you first become interested in his poetry? Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) is a poet who lived and wrote for most of his adult life in Carmel, California, a small […]

This is an interview by B.J. Woodstein, author of Translation Theory for Literary Translators Q: B.J., why did you choose to write this book? A: As a teacher, I found that my students were scared of theory or thought it was irrelevant. I wanted to show that it wasn’t as hard as they thought and […]