scholarly journals Review Essay: Steps to a Material Ecocriticism. The Recent Literature about the “New Materialisms” and its Impact on Ecocritical Theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Serenella Iovino
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Material Ecocriticism ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Four Books

This bibliographic essay illustrates the proliferation of studies about the "new materialisms" and examines the potential influx of this conceptual trend on ecocriticism. In the discussion, in particular, I provide a comparative analysis of four books: Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman, Eds. Material Feminisms (Bloomington: Indiana U P, 2008), Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Bloomington: Indiana U P, 2010), Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham and London: Duke U P, 2010), David Abram, Becoming Animal (New York: Vintage Books, 2010).

scholarly journals Why the lie: probing the explanation for journalistic cheating

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivor Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Star System ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Four Books

This Review Essay examines four books that offer a variety of explanations fabrication and plagiarism within journalism. They include explanations offered by the two most famous recent perpetrators of fabrication (Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass), as well as an analysis of the recent scandals at the New York Times and of cheating in the wider society. Among the explanations probed are workplace pressure, the "star" system in journalism, and the culture of trust and lack of policing within news organizations. Simpler explanations are rejected, including pure ambition, lack of ability, dysfunctional management, and affirmative action.

scholarly journals Why the lie: probing the explanation for journalistic cheating

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivor Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Star System ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Four Books

This Review Essay examines four books that offer a variety of explanations fabrication and plagiarism within journalism. They include explanations offered by the two most famous recent perpetrators of fabrication (Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass), as well as an analysis of the recent scandals at the New York Times and of cheating in the wider society. Among the explanations probed are workplace pressure, the "star" system in journalism, and the culture of trust and lack of policing within news organizations. Simpler explanations are rejected, including pure ambition, lack of ability, dysfunctional management, and affirmative action.

scholarly journals Review essay: When the dancing turned to mourning: Theological responses to the pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-80
Author(s):  
Jonathan C. P. Birch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
Good Book ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
Milton Keynes

This review essay considers four books published within the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It guides us through how each of these texts offers a timely Christian response to, and not explanation for, the challenges that we face: innumerable deaths, the inability to worship together, deserted streets and shut-up businesses, the place of viruses in the Earth’s ecology, and the apparent absence of God as the innovations of modern science seem to be our only salvation. Reviewed works:John C. Lennox, Where is God in a Coronavirus World? (Epsom, Surrey: The Good Book Company, 2020)Tom Wright, God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and its Aftermath (London: SPCK: 2020)Walter Brueggemann, Virus as a Summons to Faith: Biblical Reflections in a Time of Loss, Grief, and Uncertainty (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2020)Robert Keay, Reframing Pandemic (The Window of Christianity series; New York: Basiliad Publishing, 2020)

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