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'Considering the plight and the miseries suffered in recent years by millions of people in places such as Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Darfur, Catherine Lu boldly attempts in this book to develop a coherent and resolutely cosmopolitan normative global theory. Much of her originality stems from a reconsideration and reformulation of the public-private distinction. The bulk of the book consists in a thorough examination of three ethical perspectives in international affairs: realism, communitarianism and cosmopolitanism. Lu writes intelligently about the premises and problems at work in the approaches of such authors as Rawls, Beitz and Walzer. She clearly endorses a liberal cosmopolitan perspective, placing what she calls "duties of humanity" at the very basis of international and domestic orders. Her analysis is supplemented with an insightful consideration of the contemporary ethical challenges faced by state and civil society agents. The book ends with a lucid assessment of the limits of an approach that focuses on humanitarian intervention rather than on the duties of cosmopolitan justice.' - Jury for the 2008 C.B. Macpherson Prize

'In this elegantly written, carefully argued and sophisticated book, Catherine Lu offers a novel approach to the problem of humanitarian intervention. Drawing on the conceptual similarities between family privacy and state sovereignty, Lu argues that just as privacy in the domestic context has been recalibrated in the name of protecting individuals, so state sovereignty as a form of privacy in the international context ought to be reconceived. Lu shows how cosmopolitanism provides the most reasonable and attractive understanding of the public/private distinction as it applies to states. This is an original and timely contribution to an urgent and pressing topic.' - Kok-Chor Tan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Pennsylvania, USA

'...a well-written theoretical and normative study...this book will interest scholars in international relations, philosophy, peace studies, and international law. Summing up: Recommended.' - F. S. Pearson, Choice

'...Lu successfully approaches the matter in a novel and innovative manner that is highly thought provoking and well structured...a book that is well worth taking the time and effort to read, and will prove to be an excellent resource to students and academics alike'. - Taryn Shepperd, Politics and Ethics Review

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You will love this book."-Diane Keaton, Academy award winning actress and author of Then Again"An instant classic&#133; Iris Has Free Time is simultaneously satirical, sarcastic, vulnerable and sincere. It is a smart, funny, wise, and sometimes heartbreaking book about a slowly fizzling love affair with youth. If you haven&#8217;t heard about this book yet, you will soon.-Forbes.com"If novels made Emma Bovary sick with romantic ideas, a liberal arts degree infects Iris with the same illness in grand proportion&#133;. &#147;Madame Bovary c&#8217;est moi,&#8221; Flaubert said. Recognizing her illusions and struggles to grow up, we all might say, 'Iris is me.'"-BOMB magazine"Iris Smyles has created in 'Iris Smyles' an irresistible anti-heroine whose innocent iconoclasm startles and captivates."-Frederic Tuten, author of The Adventures of Mao on the Long March&#147;Iris Smyles is my spirit animal.&#8221;-James St. James, author of Party Monster"Entertaining as hell."-SF Weekly"Such a delight, this book: the perfect frenzied bildungsroman for an era when coming-of-age can be postponed practically to middle age, as funny and sharp as can be but unafraid of seriousness and consequence. It's The House of Mirth minus the no-way-out tragedy, Bright Lights Big City for the 21st century, Girls for people who love the deep dive into great prose."-Kurt Andersen, author of Heyday"The hilarious high jinks of a college graduate in New York trying&#151;and frequently failing&#151;to navigate her internship, job interviews, and men, though her slipups rarely dampen her bravado."-O, The Oprah Magazine"Delightful, dreamy, witty, sad, and always charismatically engaging and curious, Iris, the narrator and heroine of this tale, lets you into her heart and mind as she observes the passing of her youth and the shadow-like recession of her dreams and romances. In doing so, she makes one think of one's own youth and folly, and all the folly yet to come, because maybe the unspoken message of this story&#151;and one I agree with&#151;is that we never really grow up. At least I hope we don't."-Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir! and creator of HBO's Emmy winning Bored to DeathA darkly comic, affecting portrait of a 20-something with literary ambitions, Iris Has Free Time is a shaggy dog story, in accordance with Iris&#8217;s wish to live &#147;plotlessly.&#8221; No one conflict overarches this novel; instead, Smyles constructs a portrait of youth by focusing on smaller moments&#151;&#147;stories of tragic dailyness,&#8221; as the narrator might put it. That aforementioned narrator is Iris herself, who tells her story in alternating tones&#151;sometimes cynical and snotty, sometimes yearning and vulnerable&#151;while dropping references to cultural detrita both high and low, ranging from The Odyssey and Rebecca to Sex and the City and The Real World. Smyles takes the novel&#8217;s epigraph not from Dante, but from &#147;Spark Notes: Dante&#8217;s Inferno&#8221;&#151;literary, but irreverently so.-Electric Literature"If Hemingway's novels are icebergs, drifting majestically through a chilly sea, Iris Smyles's Iris Has Free Time is a mountain of glitter: iridescent, fabulous, and always changing its shape, it's a monument to the idea of fun, and is itself a delight."-Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes&#147;Told in vignettes, unconstrained by time, Iris Has Free Time captures the wandering quality of our twenties, the sense of possibility. 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Iris Has Free Time

Swarm of Five

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