David Lazar is the author or editor of numerous books, including Celeste Holm Syndrome (Nebraska, 2020); I’ll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphorisms (Nebraska, 2017); Truth in Nonfiction; Occasional Desire: Essays (Nebraska, 2013); and The Body of Brooklyn. His most … Continue reading Excerpt: Stories of the Street
Rebecca Romo is an associate professor of sociology at Santa Monica College. G. Reginald Daniel (1949–2022) was a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was the cofounding editor and editor in chief of the Journal … Continue reading Excerpt: Between Black and Brown
Nora E. Jaffary is a professor of history at Concordia University. She is the author of Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905 and False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (Nebraska, 2008). Her … Continue reading Excerpt: Abortion in Mexico
Lory Bedikian is the author of The Book of Lamenting, winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Her poems have been published in multiple journals, including Tin House, the Adroit Journal, the Los Angeles Review, and Gulf Coast. She … Continue reading Excerpt of Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body
Richard Edwards is director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is author or coauthor of numerous books, including The First Migrants (Nebraska, 2023) and Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, … Continue reading Excerpt: Great Plains Homesteaders
Elizabeth Shick is an award-winning novelist whose writing is influenced by her many years abroad, including six years in Myanmar. With a background in international development, she has also lived and worked in Angola, Gambia, Italy, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Shick … Continue reading Excerpt: The Golden Land
DeMisty D. Bellinger is the author of the novel New to Liberty and two collections of poetry, Peculiar Heritage and Rubbing Elbows. She is an associate professor of English and coordinator of the Center of Faculty Scholarship at Fitchburg State University. Her latest book, All Daughters … Continue reading Excerpt: All Daughters are Awesome Everywhere
Waitman Wade Beorn is an associate professor of history at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, UK. He is the author of Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus and The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final … Continue reading Excerpt: Between the Wires
Brandon Morgan is a history instructor and an associate dean in the School of Liberal Arts at Central New Mexico Community College. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border through the rise of capitalism … Continue reading Excerpt: Raid and Reconciliation
Greg Gordon is a professor of environmental studies at Gonzaga University. He is the author of When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron and The Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah’s Canyon Country. His … Continue reading Excerpt: Rewilding the Urban Frontier
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