Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books
In his recent monograph, Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chines
I own many Bibles, but curiously, I didn’t purchase any of them. They were all given to me, almost a
In Stephen Pimpare‘s new book, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Scree
Within a few generations after the death of Muhammad Muslims developed complex legal and theological
Scholars regularly assert that at Chicago’s World’s Parliament of Religions in 1893 Swami Vivekanand
In the decades following the end of the Second World War, the British economy evolved from a manufac
By drawing on a vast, never-utilized trove of archival materials along with oral histories, choreogr
What is science? A seemingly profound, yet totally ridiculous question to try and answer. Yet, when
The civil war in Yemen today harkens back to a similar conflict half a century ago, when the overthr
In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere – the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmi
There is a long tradition of the study of Sikhism in Western academia. However, historiographical ac
As I was reading Ron Edward’s fascinating and far-reaching new book, The Edge of Evolution: Animalit
Jocelyn Olcott is an associate professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at D
First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory (Oxford University Press, 2017) explores
In the 10th century, a succession of Byzantine rulers reversed centuries of strategic policy by emba
Food is a hot topic these days, and not just among the folks posting pictures of their dinner on Ins
Jennifer Fleeger‘s Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine (Oxford University Press,
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was mor
Rosalind Rosenberg‘s book Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a m
In our era of economic instability, rising inequality, and widespread immigration, complaints about
