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Chicagoland resounds with music during the summer, from the Chicago Blues Festival to Pitchfork, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival to Lollapalooza. So we assembled our own lineup of decorated books and we’re selling them for a song! This month, enjoy a 40% discount on any Northwestern title. Use promo code SUMMER40 at checkout to redeem this offer. Be sure to check out our Literarypalooza Spotify Playlist as you browse!

Fall 2022 Catalog
New works of poetry, philosophy, critical ethnic studies, and more.

Black Theater, City Life
African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies
Macelle Mahala
“Mahala’s book moves beyond the microcosm of production history to the macrocosm of community, theater history, and American history.” —Harvey Young, coauthor of Black Theater is Black Life: An Oral History of Chicago Theater and Dance, 1970-2010 (Northwestern, 2014)

New World Maker
Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes
Ryan James Kernan
“New World Maker offers a fascinating reevaluation of this major figure, the history of African American literature and radicalism, and the importance of translation in Black diaspora aesthetics.” —Michelle Stephens, author of Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer

Dominoes and Other Stories from the Puerto Rican
Jack Agüeros
“. . . report from the guts and heart of a submerged people, an addition to an outstanding . . . literary tradition: the boricua procession.” —New York Newsday
Featured Titles
Incidental Noyes
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Read MoreRecent & Upcoming Events
Growing Up Chicago at The Book Cellar
July 26 @ 7:00 pm - July 26 @ 8:00 pm
Growing Up Chicago: Author Panel
June 29 @ 6:00 pm - June 29 @ 7:00 pm
oh, you thought this was a date?! Launch Party
June 9 @ 6:00 pm - June 9 @ 8:00 pm