Books

Review: William Orem's "Our Purpose in Speaking" (MSU Press) — by Dustin Pickering

Review: William Orem's "Our Purpose in Speaking" (MSU Press) — by Dustin Pickering

Dustin Pickering reviews “Our Purpose in Speaking” (MSU Press, 2018), the debut book of poems by Emerson College’s senior writer-in-residence William Orem, who recently won the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Award. Pickering consistently familiarizes readers with Orem’s poetry collection from a particular

Book Review: David Devadas' The Generation of Rage in Kashmir (Oxford University Press, 2018) — by Sohini Chatterjee

Book Review: David Devadas' The Generation of Rage in Kashmir (Oxford University Press, 2018) — by Sohini Chatterjee

Sohini Chatterjee provides a thorough ‘reading as review’ of David Devadas’ recent book “The Generation of Rage in Kashmir” (Oxford University Press, 2018). The many ideas that emanate from Devadas’ work on Kashmir are presented by Chatterjee in an elaborate manner to articulate the redundant questi

Matheson Russell, "Husserl: A Guide for the Perplexed" — by Matthew Boss

Matheson Russell, "Husserl: A Guide for the Perplexed" — by Matthew Boss

This book is one of a recent series of “Guides for the Perplexed” largely devoted to “Continental” philosophers (but also including guides to Wittgenstein and Quine). It sets itself the task of presenting the interested student with a succinct introduction to Edmund Husserl’s philosophical work in i