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Many thanks to @myhnn.bsky.social for publishing this insightful excerpt of Michael E. Jirik's "Dissenting Forces," focusing on the pushback student abolitionists faced around the country in the nineteenth century.
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Disruptive to Society
In the 1830s, college students protested slavery. Many colleges and elites wanted them to stop.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Many thanks to @myhnn.bsky.social for publishing this insightful excerpt of Michael E. Jirik's "Dissenting Forces," focusing on the pushback student abolitionists faced around the country in the nineteenth century.
Check it out here!
Check it out here!
Grateful to @sciencenews.bsky.social for recognizing "Black Religion in the Madhouse" by Judith Weisenfeld as one of their Top Reads of 2025!
This insightful work explores how white psychiatrists pathologized Black religious practices as mental disorders, influencing early psychiatry.
This insightful work explores how white psychiatrists pathologized Black religious practices as mental disorders, influencing early psychiatry.
These are Science News’ favorite books of 2025
Books about AI, Mars and infectious disease were among our top reads this year.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Grateful to @sciencenews.bsky.social for recognizing "Black Religion in the Madhouse" by Judith Weisenfeld as one of their Top Reads of 2025!
This insightful work explores how white psychiatrists pathologized Black religious practices as mental disorders, influencing early psychiatry.
This insightful work explores how white psychiatrists pathologized Black religious practices as mental disorders, influencing early psychiatry.
Uncover the story of how Christmas once flourished in Yiddish, a language exclusive to non-Christians, in our new release, "Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: The Untold Story" by Jordan Chad.
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Christmas in Yiddish Tradition
The Untold Story by Jordan Chad.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Uncover the story of how Christmas once flourished in Yiddish, a language exclusive to non-Christians, in our new release, "Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: The Untold Story" by Jordan Chad.
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We're concluding another successful AAR-SBL gathering, and it’s been wonderful to connect with all our authors in Boston!
With tomorrow as the final day, we're giving away the remaining display books for free! Swing by Booth 813 starting at 8:30!
#AAR #SBL #AARSBL2025
With tomorrow as the final day, we're giving away the remaining display books for free! Swing by Booth 813 starting at 8:30!
#AAR #SBL #AARSBL2025
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
We're concluding another successful AAR-SBL gathering, and it’s been wonderful to connect with all our authors in Boston!
With tomorrow as the final day, we're giving away the remaining display books for free! Swing by Booth 813 starting at 8:30!
#AAR #SBL #AARSBL2025
With tomorrow as the final day, we're giving away the remaining display books for free! Swing by Booth 813 starting at 8:30!
#AAR #SBL #AARSBL2025
Thrilled to see "Groceries" by Nora Claire Miller highlighted as one of the New York Public Library's 50 Best Books for Adults this year!
Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects, from our partners at Fonograf Editions.
Discover the list here:
Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects, from our partners at Fonograf Editions.
Discover the list here:
Best Books for Adults 2025
Our expert librarians have selected the year's best books for kids, teens, and adults! Discover a selection of 25 e-books that you can read right away—with no wait times!—through December 31, 2025, plus explore titles in accessible formats, and learn more about our 2025 picks.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Thrilled to see "Groceries" by Nora Claire Miller highlighted as one of the New York Public Library's 50 Best Books for Adults this year!
Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects, from our partners at Fonograf Editions.
Discover the list here:
Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects, from our partners at Fonograf Editions.
Discover the list here:
DEI is dead. What do we do next? In this Q&A with the author of Racial Exhaustion, Ralina Joseph challenges us to recognize and address the fatigue that racial discourse brings while offering practical strategies to foster more equitable and productive conversations. buff.ly/eaLiLOF .
DEI Is Dead. What Do We Do Next? by Ralina Joseph
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November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
DEI is dead. What do we do next? In this Q&A with the author of Racial Exhaustion, Ralina Joseph challenges us to recognize and address the fatigue that racial discourse brings while offering practical strategies to foster more equitable and productive conversations. buff.ly/eaLiLOF .
Now available in paperback is "Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert," translated by Marcel Kurpershoek. It features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashīd dynasty and offers a window into Bedouin culture and society in the early 20th centuries.
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Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert
translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
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November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Now available in paperback is "Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert," translated by Marcel Kurpershoek. It features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashīd dynasty and offers a window into Bedouin culture and society in the early 20th centuries.
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In this deeply personal piece, Sonia Gomez reveals how her grandmother and the thousands of women like her inspired her first book, Picture Bride, War Bride, The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In this deeply personal piece, Sonia Gomez reveals how her grandmother and the thousands of women like her inspired her first book, Picture Bride, War Bride, The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America.
Our author Ralina Joseph launches "Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI" at UCLA on Dec 2, 6-8pm. Join her conversation with fellow UCLA professors on what it means to do radical listening and navigate racial discourse.
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Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI
Ralina L. Joseph, a university professor, educator, administrator, and advocate whose work focuses on issues of equity, access, and belonging in higher education and beyond, is UCLA’s new vice…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Our author Ralina Joseph launches "Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI" at UCLA on Dec 2, 6-8pm. Join her conversation with fellow UCLA professors on what it means to do radical listening and navigate racial discourse.
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Join @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social in celebrating Jewish Book Month! Engage with Rabbi Joanna Samuels, CEO of the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, and author Tomer Persico, a Hartman research fellow, as they explore his latest work, "In God’s Image."
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Book Launch: In God's Name
In Partnership
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November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Join @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social in celebrating Jewish Book Month! Engage with Rabbi Joanna Samuels, CEO of the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, and author Tomer Persico, a Hartman research fellow, as they explore his latest work, "In God’s Image."
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Learn about the history of enslaved people and abolitionists who fought racism on college campuses in our new release: "Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought in Higher Learning" by Michael E. Jirik.
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Dissenting Forces
A History of Abolition and Black Thought in Higher Learning by Michael E. Jirik
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November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Learn about the history of enslaved people and abolitionists who fought racism on college campuses in our new release: "Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought in Higher Learning" by Michael E. Jirik.
Find out more:
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Tomorrow is the official publication of "Landguage/Mirror Me" by Marina Blitshteyn, from our partners at Fonograph Editions.
This forthcoming tête-bêche chapbook shares the trappings of gendered and classed experiences where freedom isn't free.
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This forthcoming tête-bêche chapbook shares the trappings of gendered and classed experiences where freedom isn't free.
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Landguage/Mirror Me
by Marina Blitshteyn
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November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Tomorrow is the official publication of "Landguage/Mirror Me" by Marina Blitshteyn, from our partners at Fonograph Editions.
This forthcoming tête-bêche chapbook shares the trappings of gendered and classed experiences where freedom isn't free.
Learn more: buff.ly/0p0H1xi
This forthcoming tête-bêche chapbook shares the trappings of gendered and classed experiences where freedom isn't free.
Learn more: buff.ly/0p0H1xi
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This UP week we #TeamUP with @nyupress.bsky.social to discuss food in the city!
Check out our executive director Lisa Quinn's post: buff.ly/WnfizBO
Check out our executive director Lisa Quinn's post: buff.ly/WnfizBO
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This UP week we #TeamUP with @nyupress.bsky.social to discuss food in the city!
Check out our executive director Lisa Quinn's post: buff.ly/WnfizBO
Check out our executive director Lisa Quinn's post: buff.ly/WnfizBO
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I am delighted to share that my book, Printing Nueva York, is now available for pre-order from @nyupress.bsky.social. It uncovers the early history of Latinx writing and publishing in NYC. Use code NYUAU30 for 30% off: nyupress.org/978147983053...
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I am delighted to share that my book, Printing Nueva York, is now available for pre-order from @nyupress.bsky.social. It uncovers the early history of Latinx writing and publishing in NYC. Use code NYUAU30 for 30% off: nyupress.org/978147983053...
In honor of #UPWeek, we've partnered with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social to explore how food shapes identity across borders.
Nothing says NYC like pastrami on rye from Katz's, but did you know Montreal has its own take on the Jewish deli tradition?
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Nothing says NYC like pastrami on rye from Katz's, but did you know Montreal has its own take on the Jewish deli tradition?
Learn about that here:
TeamUP! NYU and McGill-Queen’s Savor Food Studies in NYC and Montréal
Read McGill-Queen’s University Press’s post about Eating the Urban Wild: Food and Foraging in Montréal here.
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In honor of #UPWeek, we've partnered with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social to explore how food shapes identity across borders.
Nothing says NYC like pastrami on rye from Katz's, but did you know Montreal has its own take on the Jewish deli tradition?
Learn about that here:
Nothing says NYC like pastrami on rye from Katz's, but did you know Montreal has its own take on the Jewish deli tradition?
Learn about that here:
New from our Monthly Review Partners comes "Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx" by John Bellamy Foster.
This thought-provoking work reinterprets Epicurus and Marx for today's world, focusing on equality and sustainability.
This thought-provoking work reinterprets Epicurus and Marx for today's world, focusing on equality and sustainability.
Forthcoming: BREAKING THE BONDS OF FATE: EPICURUS AND MARX, by John Bellamy Foster
COMING VERY SOON!
BREAKING THE BONDS OF FATE: EPICURUS AND MARX, by John Bellamy Foster
SEE: https://monthlyreview.org/9781685901233/
Says John Bellamy Foster, in his new book 'Breaking the Bonds…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
New from our Monthly Review Partners comes "Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx" by John Bellamy Foster.
This thought-provoking work reinterprets Epicurus and Marx for today's world, focusing on equality and sustainability.
This thought-provoking work reinterprets Epicurus and Marx for today's world, focusing on equality and sustainability.
"Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI" by Ralina Joseph is attracting early attention!
In a @Forbes.com article, Marybeth Gasman applauds Joseph's concept of "radical listening," which calls for engaging with the heart and conscience.
Learn more: buff.ly/NU3c9is
In a @Forbes.com article, Marybeth Gasman applauds Joseph's concept of "radical listening," which calls for engaging with the heart and conscience.
Learn more: buff.ly/NU3c9is
How To Move Beyond Racial Exhaustion
Across campuses, nonprofits, corporations, and communities, people often feel uneasy about conversations about race.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI" by Ralina Joseph is attracting early attention!
In a @Forbes.com article, Marybeth Gasman applauds Joseph's concept of "radical listening," which calls for engaging with the heart and conscience.
Learn more: buff.ly/NU3c9is
In a @Forbes.com article, Marybeth Gasman applauds Joseph's concept of "radical listening," which calls for engaging with the heart and conscience.
Learn more: buff.ly/NU3c9is
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Many thanks to Fiona McCallum Guiney for this detailed and incredibly thoughtful review in @ersjournal.com of ‘Martyrs and Migrants’ @nyupress.bsky.social!
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November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Many thanks to Fiona McCallum Guiney for this detailed and incredibly thoughtful review in @ersjournal.com of ‘Martyrs and Migrants’ @nyupress.bsky.social!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From beaver innovation to bowerbird aesthetics, animals are creative beings with rich inner lives.
Author Carol Gigliotti explores five ways animals showcase their creative side through this original NYU Press blog post.
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Author Carol Gigliotti explores five ways animals showcase their creative side through this original NYU Press blog post.
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5 Ways that Animals Express Their Creativity by Carol Gigliotti, author of The Creative Lives of Animals
From the Square
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November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
From beaver innovation to bowerbird aesthetics, animals are creative beings with rich inner lives.
Author Carol Gigliotti explores five ways animals showcase their creative side through this original NYU Press blog post.
Read it here
Author Carol Gigliotti explores five ways animals showcase their creative side through this original NYU Press blog post.
Read it here
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#TeamUP and #ReadUP in Gender and LGBTQIA Studies with @nyupress.bsky.social, @brandeispress.bsky.social, @iupress.bsky.social, plus @concordiapress.bsky.social (book cover not pictured). Discover their amazing work in the University Press Week Gallery https://bit.ly/3WpQuZI
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#TeamUP and #ReadUP in Gender and LGBTQIA Studies with @nyupress.bsky.social, @brandeispress.bsky.social, @iupress.bsky.social, plus @concordiapress.bsky.social (book cover not pictured). Discover their amazing work in the University Press Week Gallery https://bit.ly/3WpQuZI
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New! Listen to my interview w/ Mary Frances Phillips about her book BLACK PANTHER WOMAN (@nyupress.bsky.social), how the dissertation and book dramatically differ, and the tools she uses, from tech to office supplies. I love how she thinks about play in her process. draftingthepast.com?p=2789
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New! Listen to my interview w/ Mary Frances Phillips about her book BLACK PANTHER WOMAN (@nyupress.bsky.social), how the dissertation and book dramatically differ, and the tools she uses, from tech to office supplies. I love how she thinks about play in her process. draftingthepast.com?p=2789
We're thrilled to announce the offical release of "Policing Pain: The Opioid Crisis, Abolition, and a New Ethic of Care" by Kevin Revier.
This book approaches the U.S. opioid epidemic from an abolitionist framework, exploring how it's driven mass incarceration in rural areas.
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This book approaches the U.S. opioid epidemic from an abolitionist framework, exploring how it's driven mass incarceration in rural areas.
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Policing Pain
The Opioid Crisis, Abolition, and a New Ethic of Care by Kevin Revier
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November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We're thrilled to announce the offical release of "Policing Pain: The Opioid Crisis, Abolition, and a New Ethic of Care" by Kevin Revier.
This book approaches the U.S. opioid epidemic from an abolitionist framework, exploring how it's driven mass incarceration in rural areas.
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This book approaches the U.S. opioid epidemic from an abolitionist framework, exploring how it's driven mass incarceration in rural areas.
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This Native American Heritage Month, save 30% on Indigenous Studies titles when you use code HOLIDAY at checkout! buff.ly/ThLlWJl
Indigenous Studies
Publisher of academic books and electronic media publishing for general interest and in a wide variety of fields.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This Native American Heritage Month, save 30% on Indigenous Studies titles when you use code HOLIDAY at checkout! buff.ly/ThLlWJl
In this piece from the author of Organize or Burn: How New York Socialists Fight for Climate Survival, Fabian Holt explains how democratic socialist movements have emerged and created new opportunities for climate politics.
A New Environment for Climate Politics: An Excerpt from Organize or Burn by Fabian Holt
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In this piece from the author of Organize or Burn: How New York Socialists Fight for Climate Survival, Fabian Holt explains how democratic socialist movements have emerged and created new opportunities for climate politics.