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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
Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
by Dana Dragunoiu
“Dragunoiu presents us with a completely fresh, ethically bracing Nabokov. This is a book that produces the ever-coveted tingles in the spine, usually reserved by Nabokov only for the highest art.” —Stephen H. Blackwell, coeditor of Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art
Everyone Remain Calm
Stories
by Megan Stielstra
“Stories to help you sort fantasy from reality.” —Chicago Tribune
Once I Was Cool
Personal Essays
by Megan Stielstra
“Stielstra’s prose reads like something your friend needs to tell you RIGHT NOW, before she even takes her coat off.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
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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
Benjamin Hedin at Scuppernong Books
September 23 @ 6:00 pm - September 23 @ 7:00 pm
Hiding in Plain Sight: Architectural Jewels of the South Side
September 15 @ 12:00 pm - September 15 @ 1:10 pm
2021 Kweli International Literary Festival: Cynthia Dewi Oka and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
September 10 @ 6:00 pm - September 10 @ 7:00 pm
