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It began, as such things often do, with a strike. On November 2, 1970—a mere 10 months before the Attica prison rebellion—men incarcerated at Auburn prison refused to work on Black Solidarity Day. When Auburn’s warden retaliated…

My first encounter with the monster were VHS recordings of Saturday movie marathons of the dubbed Godzilla movies of the 1960s and 1970s. Six years old, I was awed to watch giant creatures laying waste to cities and armies in slightly…

<!-- In-Depth Stories--> In 2021, Ashton Lattimore, an award-winning journalist and former lawyer, became a participant in the Black Creatives Fund Revisions Workshop. Today, Ballantine Books is excited…

In his short story “The Paper Menagerie,” Ken Liu makes a case for imagination’s value: for its innate significance and material power. I teach “The Paper Menagerie” every year in my introduction to literary studies course at West…

It was 1968, and the “battle to feed all of humanity” had already been lost. In the coming 1970s, soaring populations and finite global resources would lead hundreds of millions of people to starve to death. Or so prophesized Paul and…

Overlooked, forgotten, rediscovered, and remembered. These words have often been used to describe two authors—the Austrian poet and philosopher Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–73) and the Danish writer and columnist Tove Ditlevsen…

Martin MacInnes, author of In AscensionGary Doak Martin MacInnes is the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club: In Ascension, the story of a marine biologist, Leigh, from her childhood to her…

NEW YORK —  Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died. He was 98. De Brunhoff, a Paris native who…

Colorado employers reported adding 8,500 nonfarm jobs in February, marking a second strong month of hiring this year, according to a monthly update on the state’s employment situation from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.…

March 25, 2024 We are thrilled to be attending the 2024 Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico this week! From March 26-30, find our table to browse the University of Arizona Press’ latest…

In a corner of Brand Park in Glendale, California, sits the Doctors House. It’s a charming Queen Anne cottage, complete with a tiny tower, stained glass, and delicate spindling on its white porches. Shaded by trees, it looks out over…

The image was striking: a sexualized and grotesque fusion of donkey, woman, devil, and bird. The monster stood next to a river, with the flag of the pope on a castle in the background. It was a woodcut on the first page of a pamphlet,…

The image was striking: a sexualized and grotesque fusion of donkey, woman, devil, and bird. The monster stood next to a river, with the flag of the pope on a castle in the background. It was a woodcut on the first page of a pamphlet,…

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History at Indiana University–Bloomington, about her groundbreaking new book, The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life…

The year in 2052. Anti-capitalist revolution in the United States is underway on the Gulf Coast and in Jackson, Mississippi, amid environmental collapse and state violence. Migrant workers in California become leaders in work to heal…

The year in 2052. Anti-capitalist revolution in the United States is underway on the Gulf Coast and in Jackson, Mississippi, amid environmental collapse and state violence. Migrant workers in California become leaders in work to heal…

The year in 2052. Anti-capitalist revolution in the United States is underway on the Gulf Coast and in Jackson, Mississippi, amid environmental collapse and state violence. Migrant workers in California become leaders in work to heal…

The first time I encountered Gabriel Rosenberg’s work was in an urban bookstore, where a copy of his 2015 The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America gave me a genuine startle. As a kid from Iowa, well versed in the county…

The first time I encountered Gabriel Rosenberg’s work was in an urban bookstore, where a copy of his 2015 The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America gave me a genuine startle. As a kid from Iowa, well versed in the…

In recent years, ad hoc efforts to move people and abortion supplies on the down-low have earned comparison to the Underground Railroad, the loose activist network that helped enslaved people flee slave states. The “underground” is a…

Dohuk, Iraq —  Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page after another, as part of his mission to digitize historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing. Seen as the world's largest stateless…

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s YA book Red Riding Hood was a New York Times #1 bestseller that was published worldwide in 38 editions and 15 languages, and her brand-spanking-new novel Alice Sadie Celine was published last November. The…

What are the best books to read in celebration of Women’s History Month? While March officially became known as Women’s History Month in 1987, courageous women have been fighting for rights and opportunities since the beginning of time.…

At Mornington Hall—a once-opulent, now-ruined estate in the English countryside—Penelope, the protagonist of Christine Lai’s exquisite debut novel, Landscapes, keeps a diary. We aren’t told what year it is, but readers of Rachel…

“Poetry makes nothing happen,” writes W. H. Auden; and yet, in the same poem, he urges poets to make something happen: “With the farming of a verse / Make a vineyard of the curse.” And, for his part, Seamus Heaney seems both to agree…

East African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways. The world really did take notice of the region when Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Interest…

In 2023, award-winning Zimbabwean author Christopher Mlalazi published a new book, Langabi: Season of the Beast. He’s the author of novels like Running with Mother (2012), Dancing with Life: Tales from the Township (2012) and They…

A female robot is created to be the perfect girlfriend for her owner in Sierra Greer’s novel Annie BotAlamy Stock Photo From Adrian Tchaikovsky to Hao Jingfang and Natasha Pulley, a host of big science fiction names…

Before it is green land, it is a white house with a slanted breezeway. A painted sun rises—or sets—on one gable. Inside, there is potable water, a Free Angela Davis sign, and a hand-drawn map of the property. The path to our campsite…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Should we worry, as massive book-banning efforts imply, that young people will be harmed by certain kinds of books?…

When I think 2020, I think blur: social unrest, economic turbulence, all amplified and fueled by a world-historical pandemic. As someone who teaches at a public health school, I’ve wondered for a while what a book that successfully…

This edition of Shoptalk asks: Can you guess which of the following was overheard at ASA 2023 and which was overheard at MLA 2024?…

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John Plotz’s work has always had an eclectic and interdisciplinary slant: his scholarly career started with a book on the crowd in Victorian fiction and another on the aesthetics of virtual experience in Dickens, William Morris, and…

Should we care for machines the way we do for children? If so, how? And what are the ethical and political implications of doing so? Can speculative science fiction offer insights into how we create and tend to a rapidly advancing…

The Books These are life-changing self-help books that can reshape anyone's perspective and transform their life.”— Ramzi NajjarNEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA, February 18, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In the vast array of self-help and…

Surfing is typically imagined as a “natural” practice. But it’s more accurately a cyborg practice: a form of technoscience that gave rise to new and strange hybrid subjects and objects that began to populate California and the…

It was the bottlecap that did it. I couldn’t get it back on the bottle. I slammed the disobedient piece of plastic down on the counter. Other small fires that evening clued me in. I was snappish with my partner. My body and mouth felt…

Only after we are certain that we have finished a piece of writing can we know precisely what we have failed to say. Among other things, this failure points us to where we must begin writing again. This idea emerges with progressive…

Only after we are certain that we have finished a piece of writing can we know precisely what we have failed to say. Among other things, this failure points us to where we must begin writing again. This idea emerges with progressive…

A solitary figure walks in a straight line across a deserted landscape. Mountains and forests transfigure gradually into mesas and cactuses. Clouds drift silently overhead as a star-studded twilight fades into day and back again. Five…

With its sunny beaches, lively nightlife, and wide range of cultures, Miami seems like the perfect place to learn and have fun at the same time. Still, it can be hard for students in this busy city to find the right mix between studying…

The epigraph of Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints is a quote from the British expatriate novelist and travel writer Lawrence Durrell: “My spirit turns more and more toward the West, toward the old heritage. There are,…

February 5, 2024 We are thrilled to be attending the 2024 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Kansas City, Missouri, this week! From February 7 to 10, find us at booth #821 to browse our latest titles and meet with editor Elizabeth…

Myke Cole and Michael Livingston Thermopylae,…

Books by Eternal Tree Books Priya Kumari: Founder of Eternal Tree Books My Festival Series Indian culture-inspired Eternal Tree Books launches in India, focusing on diversity and mindfulness in children's literature. Our books are…

Times of LGBT inclusion, progress, and recognition are also times of gratuitous anti-trans/queer violence and death. In their new book Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable, Eric A. Stanley…

A priestess can manipulate space-time in Meredith Mooring’s debut novelGetty Images Now we have finally moved on from an interminable January, it is time to see what science fictional delights February has in store –…

Romance films—like Celine Song’s Past Lives (2023)—usually propose that our desires will either disrupt our fantasies of success or help us to realize them. The indie romance disrupts the fantasy that success and desire would align:…

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