Professor Randy Malamud

CRASH! explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonfiction. Plane crashes are covered extensively, but they are not analysed very deeply, beyond rote media reports and forensic accident investigations. This is despite the voluminous, diverse, and fascinating cultural materials—poems and novels, songs, films, art, TV series, and on and...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Sometime in the mid-1990s, we began, often with some trepidation, to enrol for a service that promised to connect us—electronically and efficiently—to our friends and lovers, our bosses and clients. If it seemed at first like simply a change in scale (our mail...