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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