Timothy Schaffert is the author of numerous books, including The Perfume Thief (Knopf Doubleday, 2021) and The Swan Gondola (Riverhead, January 2014). He is a series editor of Zero Street Fiction which is committed to LGBTQ+ literary fiction with commercial potential. The … Continue reading Remembering Louis Crompton: The Inspiration for Zero Street Fiction
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. “I’m currently re-reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I love dystopian … Continue reading February Staff Reading List
Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses Nov. 9-15. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Press Week. Following the example of the first University Press Week, proclaimed by US President … Continue reading University Press Week: Active Voices
The following is a book trailer and an excerpt from The Mysterious Sofía by Stephen J. C. Andes (December 2019), the newest addition of the The Mexican Experience series. Chapter 6: Sofía’s Belle Époque As the Mexican Revolution developed, Sofía … Continue reading Excerpt: The Mysterious Sofía
Laurel Zwissler is an assistant professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Central Michigan University. Her new book Religious, Feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of Interconnection (Nebraska, 2018) investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice activism as religiously motivated. … Continue reading From the Desk of Laurel Zwissler: The Relationship between Religion and Politics
Awards Cannibal Safiya Sinclair Shortlisted for the 2017 BOCAS Award for Caribbean Literature: “Sinclair manages to imbue her writing with such strength and spirit that it gives her poems a disturbing and provocative edge — sometimes shocking, and at … Continue reading News and Reviews
Quilts and Human Rights (August 2016), by Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Beth Donaldson, examines the societal impact of quiltmakers and their quilts in activism and global human rights awareness. With a foreword by Desmond Tutu and 105 color photographs, … Continue reading EXCERPT: Quilts and Human Rights
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