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Read an Excerpt from “The Pandemic Workplace”

In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed—and changed us—during the pandemic. In this excerpt, we share a snippet from the book’s introduction. Introduction At some point in the week of March 9, 2020, people’s daily lives in the United States

Read an Excerpt from “Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era” by Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler

As Americans digest the first—and possibly last—Presidential Debate, many questions now loom even larger than before concerning the future of American democracy. Today’s politics reflect one of the most polarized ideological landscapes in our nation’s history—one where national politics subsume and transform local politics. The result: American democracy finds itself

Read an Interview with Poet Jonathan Thirkield, author of “Infinity Pool”

Continuing our series of interviews with the poets in our Phoenix Poets series, we’re happy to feature Jonathan Thirkield, whose new collection, Infinity Pool, publishes this month. Jonathan discusses a range or influences and methodologies that impact his work—from coding languages and AI to grief and chronic illness. He invites

5 Questions with Meredith McKittrick, author of “Green Lands for White Men”

In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, but government experts insisted that the rains weren’t disappearing; the land, long susceptible to periodic drought, had been further degraded by settler farmers’ agricultural practices—an explanation that white South Africans rejected. So when

What to Read for National Dog Day

As we wrap up the dog days of summer, we are excited to mark one last, very different sort of dog day before the arrival of autumn: National Dog Day on August 26. To celebrate National Dog Day this year, we have put together a reading list of books new

The University Betrayed: The Lost Promise of the 1960s, a Guest Post from Ellen Schrecker 

In  The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, Ellen Schrecker illuminates how American universities’ explosive growth intersected with the turmoil of the 1960s, fomenting an unprecedented crisis where dissent over racial inequality and the Vietnam War erupted into direct action. Torn by internal power struggles and demonized by conservative

What to Read for Women in Translation Month

In honor of Women in Translation Month, we are pleased to share this exciting list of recent books from the University of Chicago Press and our marketing distribution client publishers that evidence the evocative power of women’s writing from around the globe. From The University of Chicago Press Slashing Sounds

Mann Gulch: A National Legacy at Seventy-Five, a Guest Post from John N. Maclean

August 5, 2024, marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Montana’s deadly Mann Gulch fire, immortalized by Norman Maclean in his best-selling book, Young Men and Fire. Today, Maclean’s son, John N. Maclean, will deliver this speech for an anniversary observance at Montana’s state capital in Helena. A quarter century ago, Bob

5 Questions with Roberta L. Millstein, author of “The Land Is Our Community”

Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In a classic essay, published posthumously in A Sand County Almanac, Leopold advocated for an expansion of our ethical obligations beyond the purely human to include what

A Reading List for the Summer Olympics

In honor of the 2024 Olympic Games, kicking off tomorrow in Paris, we’ve put together a list of our favorite books on sports history and culture, techniques, analytics, and the history of the Games. Learn how to optimize your swing on the golf course, set your pace on the track,

Meet Catherine Theis, Translator of Italian poet Jolanda Insana’s “Slashing Sounds”

We’re excited to be publishing the first two translated collections of the relaunched Phoenix Poets series this fall! To celebrate new books in the series, we’re introducing Phoenix editors, poets, and translators through a series of short interviews. Here, we spoke with poet and translator Catherine Theis, whose new translation

Embodied Histories: A Playlist by Katya Motyl

In her new book, Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in early twentieth-century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life defied gender conformity, dressed in new ways, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions

Six Questions with Felice C. Frankel, author of the Visual Elements series

Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning photographer whose images have appeared everywhere from the New York Times to National Geographic, Newsweek, Science, and Nature. Uniquely, she is also a research scientist in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In her extraordinary, decades-long career, Frankel has combined these talents,

Goodness with Edges, A Guest Post from John Lysaker

In Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude, John Lysaker develops a new ethics of human finitude through three experimental essays. This week, Lysaker was named director of Emory University’s Center for Ethics, an academic institution whose purpose is to inspire and advance scholarship and education in ethics, to ignite