Books & Publishing

Scott McLemee ruminates on the passing of literary critic George Steiner.

Institutions can be unfamiliar with what their university presses do or with their own integral role in supporting scholarly publishing, argue Kathryn Conrad and Jennifer Crewe, which can lead to hasty or inaccurate judgments.

An upcoming book by a Villanova researcher provides a portrait of the modern student activists on U.S. college campuses and the various causes for which they advocate.

New system will assess journals on their performance.

Scott McLemee reviews Bernice L. Hausman's Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy.

Contingent Magazine had a lot of doubters when it debuted 12 months ago. But it's still going strong and earning a reputation as a place where historians can engage the public with the ideas that have always interested them.

Big textbook publishers and retailers are accused of squashing competition from independent college bookstores.

Peter Pomerantsev's This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality demonstrates that one variety of globalization is compatible with economic protectionism, cultural isolationism and an obsession with national sovereignty, Scott McLemee writes.