Reviews Selected Misdemeanors Review in CSU’s Center for Literary Publishing: “Silverman handles the memories and the ’emotional misdemeanors’ of her former self with a razor-sharp clarity but one without shame.” Informal Metropolis Review in The Latin Americanist: “…Yee raises vital … Continue reading News & Reviews
Glow Big Red—24 Hours of Husker Giving is almost here, and we are counting on your participation to support the University of Nebraska Press and our amazing student workers, today and in the future. We are a distinctive nonprofit publisher, committed to supporting the … Continue reading Glow Big Red 2026
We have never had more need to examine the role of Black History Month than we do when forces weary of democracy seek to use legislative means and book bans to excise Black history from America’s schools and public culture. … Continue reading Celebrating a Century of Black History Month
Steve Bialostok is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He is the coeditor of Education and the Risk Society: Theories, Discourse, and Risk Identities in Education Contexts. His most recent book Playing to the End: Elder Black Men, Placemaking, … Continue reading Excerpt: Playing to the End
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list. NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community here! … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
Kerry Fine is an instructor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Michael K. Johnson is professor of American literature at the University of Maine-Farmington. Rebecca M. Lush is a professor in the Literature and Writing Studies Department … Continue reading Teaching Weird Westerns
Thomas Aiello is a professor of history and Africana studies at Valdosta State University. He is the author of White Ice: Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey and Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947–1979. His most recent book Return … Continue reading Excerpt: Return of the King
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 picked up another of Emily Henry’s books, Funny … Continue reading January Staff Reading List
Brad Bigelow is a writer, instructor, and editor living in Missoula, Montana. He is the editor of the Recovered Books series for Boiler House Press and has been a writer for the Neglected Books website since 2006. With more than six … Continue reading From the Desk of Brad Bigelow: In Search of Virginia Faulkner
Reviews Bakandamiya Review in Publisher’s Weekly: “Dzukogi makes potent and capacious use of myth to distill past and present.” Return of the King Review in Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “…an immersive, behind-the-scenes account of the 1970 Ali-Quarry fight in Atlanta, politician Leroy … Continue reading News & Reviews
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