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Interviews with authors of University of Chicago Press books.
March 11, 2026
Gems and the New Science
In Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution (U Chicago Press, 2026), Dr. Michael Bycroft argues that gems were connect…
March 10, 2026
Heart of Science
In Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, 2026), philosopher Jacob Stegenga breaks with the most dominant …
March 10, 2026
Riverine Dreams
Dr. George Frazier is currently an assistant professor of Computer Information Sciences at Washburn University, where his research focuses on such top…
March 2, 2026
The Accidental Equalizer
Are jobs fair? In The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay after College (U Chicago Press, 2023), Jessi Streib, an associate Professor of So…
March 1, 2026
Articulating Difference
Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers th…
February 25, 2026
The Pandemic Workplace
A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically. In The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in th…
February 23, 2026
The Work of Disaster
The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line (U Chicago Press, 2025) is a compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of re…
February 18, 2026
Addiction, Inc
How the war on drugs created the gold standard treatment for addiction--until America's opioid crisis got privatized for profit, to the detriment of p…
February 9, 2026
Sincerely Held
"Sincerely held religious belief" is now a common phrase in discussions of American religious freedom, from opinions handed down by the US Supreme Cou…
February 5, 2026
Lands of Likeness
In Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (U Chicago Press, 2023), Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a medita…
February 2, 2026
Unforgiving Places
Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually gro…
January 27, 2026
The Heretic of Cacheu
The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa (U Chicago Press, 2025) by Professor Toby Green te…
January 22, 2026
A Dirty History of Photography
In A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire (U Chicago Press, 2026), Professor Michelle Henning presents an environmental history of…
January 17, 2026
Phenomenal Blackness
Mark Christian Thompson's book, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (U Chicago Press, 2022) examines the changing interdisciplin…
January 12, 2026
The Adaptability Paradox
Has American democracy outstripped its constitutional accommodations? Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long …
January 10, 2026
Decoding the Hand
Why did Isaac Newton read books on chiromancy, the occult science of hand reading that revealed the secrets of the soul? Why did Charles Darwin claim …
December 31, 2025
Slandering the Sacred
Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious …
December 30, 2025
Justice by Means of Democracy
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, ha…
December 27, 2025
Home Work
In Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (U Chicago Press, 2025) historian Ruby Oram tells the story of …
December 20, 2025
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript
A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object. In this book, Ar…