Reviews Making Space Review in H-Diplo: “Byrnes’s study makes a critical intervention into the history and historiography of the postwar and postcolonial immigrant communities in France, exploring how and why municipalities such as Saint-Denis and others reacted to and created … Continue reading News & Reviews
Kathryn Wilder is a writer and rancher in Dolores and Disappointment Valley, Colorado. She is the winner of a 2025 Western Heritage Award and the author of Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West, coauthor of Forbidden Talent, with … Continue reading From the Desk of Kathryn Wilder: Rain ’n’ Books
Next week, join UNP in celebrating University Press Week 2025! Celebrated from November 10-14, this year’s theme is “TeamUP!” encouraging presses and their supporters to acknowledge the daily contributions of all members of this global community. Collaborative work is the … Continue reading Books that #TeamUP for UP Week 2025
The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of one of the most distinguished lists in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Spanning deft explorations of oral literatures and languages, bracing memoirs and firsthand accounts, and groundbreaking studies of native … Continue reading Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale 2025
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 Mona Awad’s We Love You, Bunny, … Continue reading October Staff Reading List
Katharina Galor is the Hirschfield Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Brown University. Born in Germany, where her parents had fled from communist Romania, Galor was educated in Germany, France, Israel, and the United States. She is the author or coauthor … Continue reading Excerpt: Out of Gaza
Reviews Starlings Review in Bird Guides: “A powerful story of the perils of messing with the ecosystem, however small and well-intentioned the original action might be.” Review in H-Net: “Starlings is both highly readable and deeply entertaining, tracing how starlings went … Continue reading News & Reviews
Sue William Silverman is an award-winning memoirist, essayist, and poet of eight previous books, including How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences (Nebraska, 2020) and Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul (Nebraska, 2024). She is co-chair of the MFA in Writing … Continue reading Excerpt: Selected Misdemeanors
Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! National Book Awards Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation honoring the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
Jason Brown is a professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. He has published four books of short stories: A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed, Driving the Heart and Other Stories, Why the Devil … Continue reading Excerpt: Character Witness
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