We’re pleased to share a short excerpt from Justin B. Richland’s new book, Cooperation without Submission, which was published this September. It is well-known that there is a complicated relationship between Native American Tribes and the US government. In Cooperation without Submission, Justin B. Richland, an associate justice of the Hopi Appellate Court
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The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce that Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve Ewing and The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Rossi are the recipients of the 2020 and 2021 Gordon
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In the summer of 1978, US President Jimmy Carter proclaimed a University Press Week “in recognition of the impact, both here and abroad, of American university presses on culture and scholarship.” In 2012, the Association of University Presses revived the idea of this celebration to recognize the impact that a global community of university
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We’re pleased to share a short excerpt from Debra Bricker Balken's landmark new book, "Harold Rosenberg: A Critic's Life."
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Find the perfect gift for the discerning reader on your list and maybe something for yourself too. We’ve curated some of our best books for everyone from history to animal lovers, foodies, and more. All books below and in our complete Reading Catalog are available at 20% off the list price when
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We are honored to count Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, among our most renowned authors. In addition to his most recent book with us The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, he
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Poet and literary scholar Srikanth Reddy has been appointed the new editor of the University of Chicago Press’s Phoenix Poets series, making him the first publicly named editor of the series since the 1990s. Reddy will serve with three consulting editors: poets Rosa Alcalá, Douglas Kearney, and Katie Peterson. Launching
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The University of Chicago Press is pleased to celebrate our friend and author Marjorie Perloff today on her 90th birthday. One of the leading scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetics, Perloff’s work has been widely published and translated, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
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For the past 6 years, the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago has collaborated with the Press to help bring seminal works of French literature and thought to an English-speaking public. Based on this success, we are excited to announce a new partnership called the “France Chicago Collection,” which will
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This fall, we’re delighted to be publishing three new titles in our Phoenix Poets series: The Missing Mountain by Michael Collier, Blue in Green by Chiyuma Elliott, and Who’s on First? by Lloyd Schwartz. Below, these three poets tell us a little about their new collections and highlight a poem
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As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the University of Chicago Press has curated a list of books that reflect on the tragedy of that event, as well as the many political, cultural, and literary aftershocks that have followed in the two decades since. It is an event that has
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Ghosts in the MRI, a Guest Post from John Lardas Modern
In Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain, John Lardas Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history. In this original piece below, adapted from his research, he looks at one specific instance of the attempt to use technology to measure
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