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Fire Is Not a Country
Poems
by Cynthia Dewi Oka
“These poems are intimate worlds of political possibility. Cynthia Dewi Oka is directing these cinematic lifeworlds, but she is also the grip holding us so we can see, she is also the set designer taking everything apart and putting it back together so we know, so we know that this world is not given, it is made. And we can remake it.” —Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of, author of M Archive: After the End of the World
Thunderclouds in the Forecast
A Novel
by Clarence Major
“This novel comforts as it warns, indicts what it forgives. Best of all is the respect Major pays to the infinitesimal, the way the smallest details of our everyday lives—an utterance, a walk, the mere selection of a meal, the laying down of a dollar—spin themselves and each other into losses and gains, friendships and tragedies.” —Abby Frucht, author of Licorice
The Ultimate Chicago Pizza Guide
A History of Squares & Slices in the Windy City
by Steve Dolinsky
“Anyone can claim to be a food writer. But no one puts in the work and sweat equity like Steve Dolinsky. He’s a gumshoe, historian, and friendly guide in The Ultimate Chicago Pizza Guide, the definitive mic-drop book on Chicago’s most famous and infamous culinary export.” —Kevin Pang of America’s Test Kitchen
The Politics of Black Joy
Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism
by Lindsey Stewart
“The Politics of Black Joy cracks open the complexities of southern Blackness by offering an intriguing and underutilized approach—Black joy—to address how the South sits at the crux of racial performance, agency, and gender.” —Regina N. Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
Knowing by Heart
Loving as Participation and Critique
by Anthony J. Steinbock
“. . . Knowing by Heart is a masterpiece of phenomenology that shows how we fulfill our deepest humanity when loving. Reading this was a gift during the pandemic, when people have lost so many precious, intersubjective links. A book we need to reestablish trust and respect for one another.” —Natalie Depraz, author of La surprise du sujet: Un sujet cardial
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New Hires at Northwestern University Press
Evanston, IL— Northwestern University Press is pleased to announce the hires of Faith Wilson Stein as senior acquisitions editor (scholarly) and Kirsten Markusic as digital content and systems coordinator, effective…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2021-2022 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows
The University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Cornell University Press, the Ohio State University Press, University of Chicago Press, Northwestern University Press, and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses)…
Read MoreThe Academy of American Poets announced its 2021 Poets Laureate Fellows today, June 3, 2021. Angela Jackson, Poet Laureate of Illinois, Northwestern alumna, and NU Press author, is one of…
Read MoreRecent & Upcoming Events
Steve Dolinsky at Louisa's Pizza & Pasta in Crestwood, IL
December 15 @ 6:30 pm - December 15 @ 8:00 pm
Steve Dolinsky and Josh Noel at Whiner Beer Co.
November 19 @ 6:00 pm - November 19 @ 8:00 pm
FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY Launch with Cynthia Dewi Oka & Special Guests
November 18 @ 6:00 pm - November 18 @ 7:00 pm
