Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan's Bozo Sapiens is "delightful: graceful and packed with allusions, switching easily between hilarity and tragedy," says the New Scientist. Read the full review.

John Dittmer, Professor of History, DePauw University; and author of The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care appeared on the Kojo Nmandi Show. Listen to the interview.

Raymond Arsenault and The Sound of Freedom have been everywhere recently: NPR, NYT, CSPAN, The New Yorker, and the Houston Style Magazine.

Exciting news out of Morningside Heights: Timothy Brook's Vermeer's Hat has won the 2009 Mark Lynton History Prize, awarded by Columbia University. Our ahem, hat is off to you, Tim!

Jonathan Lyons' House of Wisdom is picking up some great press these days. It made a splash in the UK earlier in the year, but great to see some positive notice on this side of the pond. Stephen O'Shea says “Dust will never gather on Jonathan Lyons' lively new book of medieval history…" Check out the full review on the LA Times Book Review site.

Short and sweet about The Art Instinct by Dennis Dutton. “Artistic predilection isn’t a social or cultural construction; it’s a downright Darwinian imperative. That’s the provocative thesis teased and tested in this punchy tract, a hard-hitting amalgamation of critical theory and evolutionary science.”—Atlantic Read review.

Ha-Joon Chang's book Bad Samaritans is out in paper and he will be touring next month in NY, St Louis, DC, and Amherst. Chang gets started in the NYT NYT blog.

The Irish Americans was our top holiday-season bestseller. Read a glowing review from the Wall Street Journal , and an interview with historian Jay P. Dolan in the The Irish Echo.

Russ Baker's eye-opening exposé of the House of Bush Family of Secrets is stirring up debate all over the web. See articles and comments at HuffPo, Vanity Fair , Religion Dispatches, and Alternet. Listen to Russ Baker's Air America interview.

Author Dan Erikson, Cuba Wars was invited to speak about the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution on a number of programs. The Newshour was the longest, but he also was on NBC and NPR's Here and Now.