Tuesday, October 14, 2003

2003 NOBEL PRIZE J.M. Coetzee, Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, is the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1996 we published "an extraordinary collection of essays"  by Coetzee (as Martha Bayles described it in the _New York Times Book Review_). You can read the introduction to _Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship_ on our website. Introduction: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/111741.html  We also have a news page about Coetzee: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/News/inthenews.html A SMALL CORNER OF HELL Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya has traveled to Chechnya again and again to chronicle the lives--and deaths--on both sides of a brutal, endless war. We have an excerpt from _A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya_ on our website, titled "Russia's Secret Heroes" from which comes this quote: "This is Putin's modern ideology. When capitalists can't get it done, comrades take over again."   Excerpt: http://www.press.uchicago.edu//Misc/Chicago/674320.html HOW TEDDY ROOSEVELT BECAME A COWBOY How does a simpering, dainty, kid-gloved Easterner wind up with his face on Mount Rushmore? First he goes west to become a cowboy. In _Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire_ Sarah Watts takes a new look at the crafting of a Presidential style. "At last the nation had a president who could review troops on horseback." Excerpt: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/876071.html SOON TO BE REVIEWED IN THE NYTBR: The US Army that swept into France brought along cigarettes, jeeps, and an idealism tinged with racism. _OK, Joe_ is Louis Guilloux's never-before-translated novel of race and American justice in newly liberated France. Read the first chapter, translated by Alice Kaplan: Chapter One: ttp://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/310574.html 10:10:11 AM

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