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
Pamela Smith Hill is a New York Times best-selling editor, author, educator, and expert on Laura Ingalls Wilder. She has taught young adult literature and creative and professional writing at universities in Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, as well as classes on Laura Ingalls … Continue reading Excerpt: Too Good to be Altogether Lost
With the fall semester starting soon, we have prepared a list of titles to help you brush up on something familiar or dive into a new fascinating subject. History Mrs. Cook & the Klan TOM CHORNEAU A true crime investigation … Continue reading Back to School Reading List
Reviews Too Good to Be Altogether Lost Review in The Washington Post: “Hill makes a strong case that the powerful, complicated Little House books can teach us lessons about how we came to be who we are.” Starlings Review in … Continue reading News & Reviews
Jim Leeke is a former journalist, copywriter, and retired creative director. He interviewed Ron Luciano during Luciano’s first book tour in 1982. Leeke is the author of several books, including The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during … Continue reading Excerpt: Big Loosh
The Sealey Challenge is a community call to read one book of poetry a day for the month of August. For those looking to challenge themselves further, the organizers invite you to fill out the 2025 challenge bingo card to play for book giveaways, or share a “shelfie” online with the hashtag #SealeyChallenge. Need help planning your reading list? Start here! When We Only Have the Earth ABDOURAHMAN A. WABERI Waberi, a nomad at heart, takes us on a whirlwind tour across North America, Africa, and Europe, daring us to love the earth “beyond all rational thought” and to “turn … Continue reading Sealey Challenge Reading List
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 finished reading Prophet Song by Paul Lynch after it … Continue reading July Staff Reading List
We’re pleased to share our new Fall/Winter 2025 seasonal catalog! Browse the online version to see forthcoming titles from Nebraska, Bison Books, Potomac Books, the Backwaters Press, and the Jewish Publication Society. Visit our NetGalley page for a select list … Continue reading Introducing the Fall/Winter 2025 Seasonal Catalog
The African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts through its book series, contests, workshops, and seminars and through its collaborations with publishers, festivals, booking agents, colleges, universities, conferences and all other … Continue reading Jedidiah Mugarura Wins 2025 Sillerman Prize
Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Nebraska, 2022), among other books. Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is professor of communication emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Invisible Contrarian
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