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Light of the Everlasting Life
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July 17, 2026
Lavender Sounds
Stacey Copeland, Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage and Identity at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, …
July 2, 2026
Owning My Masters (Mastered)
Owning My Masters (Mastered) is a digital archive of original rap music and spoken word poetry containing two volumes of music, an annotated timeline,…
June 11, 2026
Second in Command
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April 24, 2026
The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society
In a society undergoing rapid transformation, how do people engage in debates around a foreign concept and in doing so, pursue contested political fut…
March 23, 2026
Icon Dresden
Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token (University of Michigan Press, 2026) by Dr. Susanne Vees-Gulani explores how memory and po…
March 18, 2026
Supernatural Japan
Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic (U Michigan Press, 2026)examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939) in the …
March 14, 2026
Creative Belonging
China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain un…
March 10, 2026
Screen Captures
Movies open a window into our collective soul. In Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (Lever Press, 2026), Stephen Lee Naish guides us throu…
March 1, 2026
Textures of Mourning
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February 10, 2026
K-Pop Fandom
K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today (U Michigan Press, 2026) insists that K-pop fan practices and activities constitute a central …
January 9, 2026
Shipping Out
Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea (University of Michigan Press, 2025) by Dr. Anita Gonzalez provides a rare perspective on performanc…
January 6, 2026
Great Lake
Theodore Karamanski joins fellow Lake Michigan enthusiast Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan. Lo…
January 2, 2026
Screening Precarity
Screening Precarity integrates a cultural analysis of film texts and history, industry transformations, and the violence and crises of political econo…
December 12, 2025
Publishing Beyond the Market
I talked to Dr. Samuel Moore about his recent book, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons, (U Michigan Press, 2025) Samuel…
December 2, 2025
Geographies of Relation
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands t…
November 24, 2025
An Actor's Tale
Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for fame but merely skirted the edg…
November 21, 2025
In Search of Admiration and Respect
What does it mean for a country to seek admiration — and what kinds of institutions try to make that admiration possible? Yanqiu Zheng’s In Search of…
October 25, 2025
Movable Londons
In September 1666, a fire sparked in a bakery on Pudding Lane grew until it had destroyed four-fifths of central London. The rebuilding efforts that f…
September 28, 2025
Delegating Responsibility
Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union (U Michigan Press, 2022) explores the politics of migration in…