Public Books

How do we handle scholarship that purports to be about one thing but is so clearly about another?https://buff.ly/3lMOBUn 

After being eligible for over 20 years, NFL coach Tom Flores was finally inducted into the Football Hall of Fame last month. What can his experience tell us about the role of national identity, community, and race in the world of sports?https://buff.ly/3hBMem0 

Some early women’s softball teams emerged from political organizations like Partido Liberal Mexicano, an anarcho-syndicalist organization supporting the Mexican Revolution. What else remains to be discovered about the intersection of race and sports?https://buff.ly/3zgUuOa 

Tom Flores is the first Latino quarterback, first Latino head coach, and first Latino general manager in the NFL. He has won a total of four Super Bowls, both as a coach and as a player. He was also snubbed by the Football Hall of Fame for over 20 years.https://buff.ly/3zgUcH4 

“An aging sociologist giving an invited lecture to a packed Munich auditorium in the summer of 1917 will call on the German language far differently than an undercover Jew hiding in Delft in 1944.” Joshua Sperling on the intricacies of translation:https://buff.ly/3Eq1VX6 

“I must pause to reflect on my strange, illustrious-in-spite-of-myself, and ultimately gossipy academic lineage.” S. J. Pearce on the dramas of academia and the legacies of partisan scholarship:https://buff.ly/3AgIDRq 

Are translators principally readers or writers?https://buff.ly/2XyeOxx 

Most translation theory obsesses over shoulds and shouldn’ts. But what if there is a better way to theorize the art of translation?https://buff.ly/3hEyTt9 

While many have begun to recognize that sports and politics are not separate, it is clear we are still a long way from fully understanding the ways that white supremacy has shaped the world of sports.https://buff.ly/3kdSaDc 

“In translator Damion Searls’s finest work, the text appears like a newly restored painting, where in the uncanny freshness of the paint you sense the vision not only of the painter but also of the restorer.”https://buff.ly/3EAgUxQ 

“To read as a translator is to be returned to a place of linguistic origins, to appreciate the flux of possibility beneath the stillness of words.” Joshua Sperling mulls the art and theory of translation:https://buff.ly/3EjUBfH 

“But perhaps that is the only way a novel about an academic life and the Spanish Inquisition could end.” @homophonous on fictional campuses and very real intellectual legacies:https://buff.ly/3ElA1eO 

“I can forgive anyone the fault of being excessively in love with Thomas Cromwell.” We return to Matthew Hart’s review of ‘The Mirror and the Light’:https://buff.ly/2XuxM8g 

Athletes do not exist in silos. They are borne from community networks that continue to support them after they become successful. Priscilla Leiva tackles the still understudied intersection of race and sports:https://buff.ly/3nCXan9 

“Without an understanding of how Latinx identity is shaped by the world of sports, we are left with only part of the story.” Priscilla Leiva reviews two studies of race and sports. @UChicagoPress, @RutgersUPress, @dtrouille, @josealamillo:https://buff.ly/39jIlgF 

What are the consequences of the well-intentioned white man’s unshakable belief in his own innocence? We revisit Sunny Xiang’s review of the novel ‘The Incendiaries’:https://buff.ly/3AivPdo 

What historiographical flaws are we prepared to overlook because of the trauma of a generation of historians?https://buff.ly/3lz3d9o 

“This is a book about American Jewish identities and masculinities, to be sure. But, ultimately, it is much more a novel about history writing.” @homophonous reviews ‘The Netanyahus’ by Joshua Cohen (@NYRB_Imprints):https://buff.ly/3nBlR3i 

How do we grapple with scholarship informed by tragedy, at the expense of what we might consider to be a more accurate, and more truthful panorama?https://buff.ly/3hEPb58