Next year, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (SAR) will turn 100 years old. Released for sale by Charles Scribner’s Sons on 22 October 1926, the novel was a breakthrough work for the twenty-seven-year-old Hemingway, who had been seeking to make a literary name for himself but knew he needed to publish a serious novel…

Over its first forty years, Broadview Press has developed a strong reputation in universities and colleges worldwide as an academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences. “Broadview’s work … makes for some of the most enriching reading experiences available, both in and out of the classroom,” writes Emily Friedman of Auburn University. “Broadview editions…

This book focuses squarely on writing for the humanities. The topic is surprisingly understudied: composition textbooks tend to focus on writing about social issues, while literature textbooks focus on how to read literature. After years of teaching college writing, I decided to create a textbook that I wished existed, one that speaks specifically to humanistic…

Wars keep erupting. Russia-Ukraine; Israel-Hamas; Israel-Hezbollah; targeted strikes against Houthis in Yemen, and between Israel and Iran; Syria; Myanmar; Sudan; and rising conflict in the Congo involving Rwandan factions and threatening to spiral throughout Central Africa. Ours is not a peaceful time, to say nothing of the decline in global cooperation in general and the sharp rise in aggressive—even expansionist—nationalism, notably amongst the great powers of the US, China, India, and Russia. In short: conflict and war are grabbing headlines, altering the fate of people and countries forever, and crying out for fresh and thorough investigation.

           This anthology is comprehensive and up to date, yet still readily affordable. It is sizable and diverse, allowing one to craft a personalized reader on war and peace in our time—either for oneself or for one’s students. It offers one-stop shopping in that regard. I invite readers to explore the exciting table of contents, as well as the list of “topical clusters” which follows, to quickly identify everything this book has to offer.

At the 7 Nov 2024 book launch celebrating the publication of her new edition, Katharina Rout spoke about All Quiet on the Western Front to an audience of about 45 people at The Attic in the historic railway station building in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. Excerpts from her wide-ranging address are presented here. On language, and…