Author Interviews

Below are recent interviews with CUP authors. View a complete listing of past interviews.

Read an interview with Hervé This from the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Cloth, $22.95 / £13.50 232 pages , November 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-14170-3

Read an interview with Geoffrey Heal from Ideas at Work.

Cloth, $29.95 / £17.95 288 pages , May 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14400-1

"One needs a unique language and form to depict a changing world, and in this sense a work's world-view creates its own form. I prefer to describe this process not as an experiment but as the pursuit of a different factuality. If you're going to change the world, how are you going to do it through conventional methods and language?"

Read more from the interview with Ch'oe Yun.

Cloth, $24.50 / £14.50 200 pages , May 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14296-0

"A study on Tugendhat is necessary ... because it demonstrates that the analytical/continental division does not condition philosophy anymore. "

Read more from the interview with Santiago Zabala.

Cloth, $37.50 / £22.00 224 pages , May 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14388-2

"Feminist correspondences since the 1970s reveal changes in gender roles and self-perception in quite an extraordinary way. Though few have remarked upon the stories hidden in this humble form of life writing, letters can tell us the relationship histories of a generation at the forefront of social change."

Read more from the interview with Margaretta Jolly.

Cloth, $40.00 / £23.50 328 pages , March 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13792-8

Q: But even Madonna is into Kaballah!

JF: Exactly, which is to say that maybe the process that the book has been treating, the klezmering of America—the tendency for Jewish themes, materials, and imaginative production to supply a model for new ethnic dispensation across the board—has been going on deeper and more intensely than I reckoned when I started the book....

Read more from the interview with Jonathan Freedman.

Cloth, $34.50 / £20.50 408 pages , December 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-14278-6

"In the 1830s O'Connell acquired a full-body tattoo in Pohnpei, where he married and became a member of the community. But in New York, where he gained fame as the first man to display his tattoos, women and children ran screaming from him. Ministers had warned from the pulpit that viewing the designs would transfer them to any woman's unborn child." Read more from the interview with Juniper Ellis...

Paper, $27.50 / £16.00 304 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14369-1

Cloth, $79.50 / £47.00 304 pages , March 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14368-4

"The reporting focuses on the empirical, to the near exclusion of the contextual. Stop-and-start diplomacy and cycles of Israeli-Palestinian violence are main features of the coverage, but ... underlying factors that connect the violence to a lack of resolution to the conflict are rarely covered."

Read more from the interview with Marda Dunsky.

Paper, $27.50 / £16.00 456 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13349-4

Cloth, $79.50 / £47.00 456 pages , January 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13348-7

"There are basically three motivating factors that keep The Art of War in the limelight. The first, naturally, is the insights that it affords into traditional Chinese military thinking. Second, entrepreneurs and business-school professors value the tactical tips that it offers for those who are engaged in intense competition and delicate negotiations. Third, psychologists, therapists, and counselors appreciate its subtle advice for those who confront challenging personal situations...."

Read more from the interview with Victor H. Mair.

Cloth, $19.95 / £11.95 256 pages , December 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-13382-1

Listen to an interview with Timothy Brennan on "Against the Grain."

Paper, $19.50 / £11.50 360 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13731-7

Cloth, $31.00 / £18.00 360 pages , February 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-13730-0

"It should come as no surprise that women continue to occupy the position that we have built for them discursively. At the extreme, women become weapons, literally blowing up, the "bombshell" become the bomb...."

Read more from the interview with Kelly Oliver

Cloth, $26.50 / £15.50 224 pages , November 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-14190-1

Listen to a podcast interview with Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh, authors of Administration of Torture.

Cloth, $29.95 / £17.95 456 pages , November 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-14052-2