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How has policing fundamentally shaped the Latinx experience? The history of Latinx groups in the United States has been marked, from the beginning, by…
In Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation, Robin James argues that “vibes” have become a way for how we see ou…
Neither capitalism nor central planning, this is the future for socialism.Capitalism isn’t working. But is there a plausible alternative? The Blueprin…
From maps of colonial empires to charts of national trade, data visualization has long been used to consolidate knowledge and power. But just as often…
Digging Beneath Bones, teri elam’s debut poetry collection, travels through memory, lineage, rupture, and return, illuminating the body that navigates…
Tablet computers appear commonplace today, yet for decades they represented an ambitious—and often unrealized—vision of personal computing. The Tablet…
Jeremy Adelman’s The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind (Princeton University Press, 2026) puts the world’s current unwinding…
We tend to talk about globalisation as if it arrived with container ships, multinationals and the internet. Christopher Meissner’s One from the Many: …
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE In a groundbreaking global exploration of the ideas that drove the American Revolution, a prize-winning…
Today I’m speaking with Stephanie Williams, Director of Wayne State University Press, and president of the Association of University Presses. Every ye…
Home Team Away: Watching European Football in Urban China (U Michigan Press, 2026) by Dr. Yuan Gong calls for a rethinking of sport fandom that is div…
In this episode of the Books for Better Understanding series from Notre Dame Press, David Carlson hosts Jonathan A. Anderson and James Elkins for a di…
Rongbin Han is a Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, where he studies Chinese politics and the internet. Han’s latest boo…
Two women, bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence across centuries--or be silenced forever, in the dazzling new novel by New York Times bests…
Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them (U Texas Press, 2025) is an approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, so…
In the United States, hundreds of thousands of elected and appointed officials serve more than 50,000 subnational governments, making important decisi…
In Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs (AK Press, 2026), Michael Doan explores the work and legacy of James a…
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister’s destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her mo…
The first book ever on how the press covered the Gettysburg campaign, From Blood to Ink: How the Press Covered the Gettysburg Campaign (U Georgia Pres…
The 2011 Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Japan. It was a major event, rated at the highest sev…