News for April 14, 2008
William Logan Foreword on New Critics Appears in VQR
April 14, 2008
Poetry critic William Logan’s foreword to the forthcoming anthology Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism (June) appears in the spring 2008 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review.
Matthew Cohen Wins Benda Prize for Best Book in Southeast Asian Studies
April 14, 2008
The Komedie Stamboel, Matthew Cohen’s 2007 study of popular theater in colonial Indonesia, is the 2008 winner of the Harry Benda Prize for best book on Southeast Asia, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. “It is a tremendous career honour for me,” said Cohen, who lives and teaches in London. The award was presented at the AAS annual meeting in early April.
Recent News 
Kirkus & PW Give Starred Reviews to Latest Amish Mystery
July 11, 2008
Two starred reviews in major magazines have jump-started the publication of P. L. Gaus’s Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery. Publishers Weekly called Gaus’s “excellent sixth Ohio mystery” “another winner in this fine regional series”; Kirkus Reviews called it a “sharp mystery” and “A perceptive look at problems that have no easy solutions.”
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