The University of Nebraska Press is excited to join the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in celebrating literary translation this May. Annually, the ALTA hosts Write the World, a series of virtual panels on all aspects of translation. This year … Continue reading Reading List: #ReadTheWorld
ICYMI Godfall by Van Jensen and The Sound of Undoing by Paige Towers were selected as part of the 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. Both are in the book cover category. The covers were designed by UNP’s Nathan … Continue reading News & Reviews
Congratulations to Safiya Sinclair on her Guggenheim fellowship! The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award given to individuals who demonstrate exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or superior creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. … Continue reading UNP Author Safiya Sinclair Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and author of Urban Shocker (Nebraska, 2017), winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award, and The World Series in the Deadball Era. Lyle Spatz is the author of many baseball books and the coauthor … Continue reading From the Desks of Steve Steinberg & Lyle Spatz: Mike Donlin
To celebrate Mother’s Day on May 12, we’ve curated a list of memoirs, fiction, anthropology, and history that explores the beautiful yet complicated kaleidoscope of motherhood. If This Were Fiction JILL CHRISTMAN If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill … Continue reading Reading List: Mother’s Day
The 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, now in its 59th year, honors the university publishing community’s design and production professionals; recognizes achievement in design, production, and manufacture of print publications; and serves as a spark to conversations and source … Continue reading The 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, & Journal Show
Since its founding in 1888, The Jewish Publication Society has shaped American Jewish life by bringing voices from across the Jewish tradition, past and present, into conversations at the heart of the contemporary world. Here’s how you can save on … Continue reading Sales in May with the Jewish Publication Society
Steen Ledet Christiansen is a professor of culture, media, and aesthetics at Aalborg University. He is the author of Drone Age Cinema: Action Films and Sensory Assault and The New Cinematic Weird: Atmospheres and Worldings. His latest book Storytelling in “Kabuki”: An Exploration of … Continue reading Excerpt: Storytelling in Kabuki
Philip Burnham is a retired associate professor of composition at George Mason University, a former reporter for Indian Country Today, and a freelance writer. He is the author of Indian Country, God’s Country: Native Americans and the National Parks and Song of Dewey Beard: Last … Continue reading From the Desk of Philip Burnham: Behind The Education of Clarence Three Stars
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “This month, I’ve been reading a few UNP books from … Continue reading April Staff Reading List
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