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Spring 2023 Catalog
New works of poetry, prose, philosophy, criticism, and more.
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Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought
Bettina Judd
“This is an embodied black feminist poetics, an imaginative labor of knowledge, pleasure, vulnerability, and care.” —Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Flames from the Earth
A Novel from the Lódz Ghetto
Isaiah Spiegel
Translated from the Yiddish by Julian Levinson
“Levinson’s beautiful, poetic translation of Isaiah Spiegel’s novel, Flames from the Earth, makes a significant contribution to Holocaust, Jewish, Polish, and Yiddish studies.” —Harriet Murav, author of David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity
The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure
Race, Affect, Environment
Edited by Kelly M. Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto
and Susan Zieger
“A dazzling set of essays on infrastructure.” —Angela Naimou, author of Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
Featured Titles
Incidental Noyes
Celebrating University Press Week and What’s #NextUP
Continuing our celebration of University Press Week, today we highlight Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of our favorite local bookstores here in Chicago! Northwestern University Press has partnered with Seminary Co-op…
Read MoreUniversity Press Week 2021: Forward Thinking
It’s University Press Week! “Keep UP!,” the 2021 University Press Week theme, marks the tenth anniversary and celebrates how university presses have evolved over the past decade. In honor of…
Read MoreNew 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 MoreRecent & Upcoming Events
University Press Week Poetry Reading
November 17 @ 7:00 pm - November 17 @ 8:00 pm
Left Bank Books Presents Matthias Göritz with Mary Jo Bang to discuss Colonies of Paradise: Poems
November 2 @ 7:00 pm - November 2 @ 8:00 pm
MARY JO BANG IN CONVERSATION WITH MATTHIAS GÖRITZ
October 26 @ 7:00 pm - October 26 @ 8:00 pm




