Art Is Everything: A Novel
November 20, 2020
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
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Raising Up Creative Voices
November 10, 2020
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
Excerpt from “The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma” (1932)
October 23, 2020
by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, translated from the Polish by Ewa Malachowska-Pasek and Megan Thomas The 1932 novel The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma is one of Poland’s most famous and enduring novels…. READ MORE
Excerpt from “The Passion According to G.H.” by Clarice Lispector
October 18, 2020
Born in western Ukraine, Clarice Lispector (1920–77) suffered in her early years from famine, war, and violent antisemitism. When her family arrived in Brazil in 1922, Clarice’s father made a… READ MORE
Parneshia Jones Appointed Director of Northwestern University Press
September 11, 2020
FOR RELEASE: Sept. 11, 2020 Parneshia Jones Appointed Director of Northwestern University Press Evanston, Ill. — Sarah M. Pritchard, the Northwestern University Dean of Libraries and the Charles Deering McCormick… READ MORE
The Nigrescent Beyond
August 28, 2020
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
“Sovereignty: A Play” and a landmark legal decision for Native Americans
July 14, 2020
by Mary Kathryn Nagel On July 9, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma, the US Supreme Court issued a watershed decision for Native American legal rights. The 5-4 decision… READ MORE
“Miss Muriel”
July 10, 2020
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
July 7, 2020
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”
July 6, 2020
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
It Took Poetry to Get Here, It Will Take Poetry to Stay: A Guest Blog by Sarah Dowling