Category: On Books and Publishing

Book reviews and author interviews, as well essays on the state of publishing.

On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Todd Taylor’s Shirley Wins

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 9, 2007

Excerpt: Punk’s political power once lay, at least in part, in its refusal to live by categorizations, and its defiance of the imperative to grow up, settle down and pretend that there is nothing new to learn or live for after a point.

Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 25, 2007

Now, to be a celebrity was to become a logo.

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Sara Miles’ Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 18, 2007

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

A Different Take on Irshad Manji

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 1, 2007

She fully understands that history is made by those in power. She consistently opposes those who don’t defer to power.

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Isle of Manji: Interview with Irshad Manji

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 28, 2007

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

Interview with Walter Benn Michaels: Is celebrating all the stripes in the rainbow enough?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 1, 2007

What that actually means is that both the Left and the Right in this country have succeeded in defining the center of politics as how you feel about identity. And as long as that’s true, that means the Right always wins.

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Walter Benn Michaels’ The Trouble with Diversity

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 2, 2007

Excerpt: We no longer care to think about how to make the conditions of poverty (and hence the poor) disappear; we’d rather spend our resources freezing the culture of the poor in perpetuity.

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Uncovering Kenji Yoshino’s Covering

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 1, 2006

Talking about the hidden costs of covering will appeal to those who like the book’s reliance on the idea that accepting diversity and difference solves our problems.

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Can We Talk?: Censorship, Pedophilia, and Panic

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 16, 2005

A system that sees “predators” as beyond repair and thrusts them to the outermost regions of society also deeply pathologizes the “victims.”