Year: 2020

Art Is Everything: A Novel

Art Is Everything: A Novel

An except from the new novel by Yxta Maya Murray, author of The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped and The Conquest On December 25, twenty-three hours after the doctor… READ MORE

Raising Up Creative Voices

Raising Up Creative Voices

Join us as we celebrate this year’s University Press Week with the theme #RaiseUP. This year’s theme highlights the role that the university press community plays in elevating authors and… READ MORE

The Nigrescent Beyond

The Nigrescent Beyond

by Ricardo A. Wilson II Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries… READ MORE

“Miss Muriel”

ALMOST EVERY DAY, Ruth Davis and I walk home from school together. We walk very slowly because we like to talk to each other and we don’t get much chance… READ MORE

The Dead Season

Excerpted from Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz. Translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine and with a foreword by Rivka Galchen. “Bruno Schulz is arguably the most influential author… READ MORE

“Crossing”

By Sterling Brown This is not Jordan RiverThere lies not CanaanThere is stillOne more wide river to cross. This is the MississippiAnd the stars tell us onlyThat this is not… READ MORE

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