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Category Archives: Review

Welcome to Zeteo Reviews, a brand new feature of the Zeteo project. In this space you will find reviews of interdisciplinary works, particularly those published by university presses and smaller presses. The goals of this project include calling more attention to interdisciplinary scholarship and writing, and exploring the nature and potential of this field. Interdisciplinary writers face special challenges—jacks of all trades and masters of none?—and also enjoy a great opportunity: seeing the light sparked by the mixing of insights from disparate fields. Generalists in a world of specialists, such writers can help us center ourselves.

While Zeteo itself is on a biannual publishing schedule (spring and fall), Zeteo Reviews is a rolling publication with reviews published as they are completed. In this way we seek to take advantage of a capacity of e-publishing, shortening the time required before writers see their work reviewed, or see their reviews published. Any who may be interested in reviewing for Zeteo Reviews are invited to send a resumé and a few samples of their writing to themalsjournal@gmail.com. We are also open to suggestions from publishers regarding forthcoming interdisciplinary works.

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Existentialism / Biography / Being in the World

November 29, 2016 by Walter Cummins

By Walter Cummins Review of At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell (New York: Other Press, 2016)   One reason Sarah Bakewell’s The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails is such an engaging read was her decision to organize her examination of philosophy around the lives of the central thinkers, with tantalizing tidbits about their friendships and fallings out, their wives and lovers, their personal tensions over evolving and conflicting theories. But her approach […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Camus, Existentialism, France, Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Anima dannata, 1619, white marble. Embassy of Spain in Vatican City, Holy See, Rome

Americans’ Anger / Poetry / Trump / Furies

October 24, 2016 by Walter Cummins

Review of H.L. Hix, American Anger: An Evidentiary (Etruscan Press, 2016).   “I’ve got a family to feed, a neighborhood to defend.” “I’ve got a family to feed, a principle to defend.” “I’ve got a family to feed, my honor to defend.” — H.L. Hix, American Anger   These lines taken from separate poems in the first section—“Aggression Cues”—of H. L. Hix’s recent poetry collection, American Anger, can serve as elements of a mantra for the entire book. The voice […]

Categories: Review • Tags: anger, Donald Trump, poetry, United States of America

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Sacrificio di Isacco (The Sacrifice of Isaac), 1603. In the collection of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Genesis Interpretation After Auerbach

June 28, 2016 by Martin Green

Twenty-Three Ways (and Counting) of Looking at the Bible By Martin Green Review of Reading Genesis: Beginnings, edited by Beth Kissileff (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2016)   Beth Kissileff’s recent anthology Reading Genesis: Beginnings presents twenty-three ways of looking at the first book of the Hebrew Bible. Well, perhaps not twenty-three distinct ways of reading Scripture, but twenty-three authors weigh in, applying tools, many from secular disciplines, to find new meanings in these ancient texts. And these approaches, including game theory, leadership […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Genesis, literary theory, religion, social science, The Bible

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Hélène Cixous’s Tomb(e)

April 22, 2015 by William Eaton

Review of Tomb(e) by Hélène Cixous, translated by Laurent Milesi (Seagull Books, 2014). Distributed by The University of Chicago Press. By Walter Cummins   What are we to make of prose like this? Never did I love so powerfully but for dreaming still and dreaming the Dream of Dreams, as if Love killed me in order to give me life, through a marvelous retrospective cancellation of the dantext which I had mistaken for life. I have known the orgasm of the […]

Categories: Review • Tags: fiction, Finnegans Wake, French, Hélène Cixous, John Coltrane, literature

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Not all books deserve review

February 9, 2015 by William Eaton

By Theana Kastens and William Eaton {Click for pdf}   At times book reviewers receive books that should not be reviewed at all because even bad publicity may prove “better” than no publicity. A reviewer might return such a book, largely unread, to the editor, saying, “Send me another. Leave this one alone.” But sometimes the reading is done, the writing begun; editors want their copy. What to do? Having read an enticing blurb in a highly reputable publication, Zeteo […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Frederick Douglass, oppression, Oscar Wilde, rape, Review

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The Future of Communication

October 21, 2014 by William Eaton

The Visual Humanities and the Future of Communication By Maggie Sattler Review of Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production by Johanna Drucker (Harvard University Press, 2014) [print_link] [email_link]   In “How E-Reading Threatens Learning in the Humanities,” a July 2014 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Naomi S. Baron, a professor of linguistics whose research interests include writing and technology, contends that when her students read on digital devices, their attention spans and abilities to retain information shrink. This […]

Categories: Review • Tags: education, reading, technology

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courtesans and concubines

Of Courtesans, Concubines, and Exemplary Women

October 7, 2014 by William Eaton

Men’s ideas for women in another time and place By William Eaton, in conjunction with Heather Luciano Review of Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000-1400 by Beverly Bossler (Harvard University Press, 2012) [print_link][email_link]   “This book, the Introduction explains, “traces changing gender relations in China between the tenth and fourteenth centuries by examining how writings about courtesans, concubines and exemplary women developed changes over that period.” Some readers might come to such a book looking […]

Categories: Review • Tags: China, gender, History, poetry, prostitution, women

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Bonobos

What Is Permitted—To People and Bonobos

August 18, 2014 by Walter Cummins

The Sources of Morality By Walter Cummins Review of The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans de Waal (W. W. Norton, 2013) [print_link] [email_link]   Primatologist Frans de Waal in his book The Atheist and the Bonobo (W. W. Norton, 2013) uses bonobos to take on God, or more precisely those people who are convinced moral standards would not exist without the authority of a Supreme Being. From that perspective, morality is an attribute limited to the human realm, essential to our unique and special […]

Categories: Review • Tags: animals, ethics, literature, philosophy

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Working Mom

All I Want is a Job!

July 22, 2014 by William Eaton

By Moorel Bey Review of All I Want Is A Job! Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System by Mary Gatta (Stanford University Press, 2014) [print_link] [email_link]   The Great Recession that began in 2007 has also been referred to as the “Great Mancession” due to the fact job loss was predominantly in male-dominated fields such as transportation, manufacturing, and construction. At the same time, female-dominated fields, such as education, health services, public administration, and government, saw slight increases in employment. […]

Categories: Review • Tags: jobs, women

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Zeteo is for people who are readers, lookers, listeners, thinkers. Increasingly we are interested in short texts that call attention to other texts, works of art or music that deserve more attention than they are getting. And we are interested similarly in historical phenomena, ignored aspects of contemporary life, . . . We look forward to hearing about your ideas, your reading, what you’ve seen . . .

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