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A Collection of Books on Gardening

It’s that time of year. Snowdrops and crocuses are blooming. Tulips and daffodils are sending up their leaves. It seems like the land is waking up and it’s time to start thinking about your garden. You’ve been waiting all winter and the time is almost here. Not yet time to

National Poetry Month: Seagull Books

To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’re excited to share a reading list of new poetry collections from our wonderful distributed client, Seagull Books. Shop our poetry collection directly from our website using the promo code POETRYMONTH and take 40% off at checkout. Seagull Books Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy

An Earth Day 2025 Reading List

University Presses like Chicago are committed to making available works that not only keep us informed but also help us to better understand the world and climate around us. Our commitment to environmental awareness and sustainability runs deep, and to celebrate Earth Day, we have put together a reading list

Jenny Trinitapoli Receives the 2025 Laing Award

The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce that An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi by Jenny Trinitapoli is the recipient of the 2025 Gordon J. Laing Award. The award was presented by the University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos at a gala reception

Poetry Month Feature: Tupelo Press

One of the University of Chicago Press’s distributed client presses is Tupelo Press, noted literary publisher of poetry and prose. In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, we are delighted to share excerpts from two of Tupelo’s titles forthcoming this spring: Westminster West by Chard deNiord and Nebulous Vertigo

Introducing “America Reframed,” a new book series from the University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is excited to announce a new book series, America Reframed: Political History for What Comes Next, steered by series editors Geraldo L. Cadava, Brent Cebul, N. D. B. Connolly, and Lily Geismer. America Reframed publishes ambitious and novel historical interpretations of American power, politics, and

What to Read for National Poetry Month

To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’re excited to share a reading list of new poetry collections. Here at the University of Chicago Press, we’ve recently published Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey. This magnificent feat of translation conveys the poetics of the original while bringing to vivid life the

Read an Excerpt from “Metropolitan Latinidad,” Edited by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz

Latino urban history has been underappreciated not only in its own right but for the centrality of its narratives to urban history as a field. A scholarly discipline that has long scrutinized economics, politics, and the built environment has too often framed race as literally Black and white. This has

Read an Interview with Poet and Translator Kristin Dykstra

As we get ready to celebrate Poetry Month 2025, we also continue to celebrate the amazing writers, editors, and translators in our Phoenix Poets series. Here, we spoke with poet and translator Kristin Dykstra, whose new book of original poems, Dissonance, considers life at the US’s northern border in the

A Jazz Age Lesson in Activism, with Stunning Parallels to Politics Today

Guest Post from Gioia Diliberto, author of Firebrands: The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition  A radical social/political movement has taken over the government. Privately, many legislators and officials acknowledge that the movement is deeply flawed, even mad in some respects. They know the country is

A Guest Post from Margaret Gullette, author of “American Eldercide”

“The Room Next Door” is Stylish and Even Watchable . . . But Not Brave Enoughby Margaret Morganroth Gullette Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” enacts a rare life event that most of us don’t want to contemplate even vicariously. By now everyone knows the donnée: A war correspondent (Tilda Swinton),

Chicago Perspectives on Current Events: A Reading List of Books to Think With

In today’s never-ending news cycle, it can be hard to stay grounded and make sense of the flood of information. So, we offer here a list of books to help us think through these times. Informed by the University of Chicago’s trademark openness to the free exchange of ideas, the

Read an Excerpt from “Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s”

Since the 1960s, American liberalism and the Democratic Party have been remade along professional class lines, widening liberalism’s impact but narrowing its social and political vision. In Mastery and Drift, historians Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer have assembled a group of scholars to address the formation of “professional-class liberalism” and its

Five Questions with Jill Pruetz, author of “Apes on the Edge”

Fongoli chimpanzees are unique for many reasons. Their female hunters are the only apes that regularly hunt with tools, seeking out tiny bush babies with wooden spears. Unlike most other chimps, these apes fear neither water nor fire, using shallow pools to cool off in the Senegalese heat. Up to

Speculum Celebrates 100 years of the Medieval Academy of America

In 1925, the Medieval Academy of America (MAA) was founded as a learned society dedicated to pursuing scholarly research on the Middle Ages in North America. A century later, the MAA occupies a central position in the landscape of medieval studies, and Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, the flagship journal of the