Rebecca M. Valette is professor emerita of Romance languages at Boston College and an internationally recognized expert in language methodology, testing, and applied linguistics. She and her husband, Jean-Paul Valette, have curated several exhibitions of Navajo textiles. They are coauthors of Weaving … Continue reading Excerpt: Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver
Len Verwey is a South African poet who was born in Mozambique. He is the author of In a Language That You Know (Nebraska, 2017), and his poems have been published in numerous journals, including Transnational Literature and New Contrast. His newest poetry collection, Loving the … Continue reading Excerpt: Loving the Dying
Mike Bezemek is the author and photographer of three books that combine stories with trip guides, including Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route: Exploring the Green and Colorado Rivers and Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts, and Stories from the Wild West. His newest … Continue reading How the First Spacewalk Ended in a Ski Trip
Jared Harél’s Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (Nebraska, 2023) is officially out now. Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong … Continue reading Upcoming Events for Jared Harél’s Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
John Mabry’s Nebraska Volleyball (Nebraska, 2023) is the perfect book to pick up during the Husker Volleyball season! Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Nebraska Volleyball: The Origin Story is the first book … Continue reading Upcoming Events Schedule for John Mabry’s Nebraska Volleyball
Mike Bezemek is the author and photographer of three books that combine stories with trip guides, including Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route: Exploring the Green and Colorado Rivers and Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts, and Stories from the Wild West. His newest … Continue reading Excerpt: Space Age Adventures
Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote The Begging Question (Nebraska, 2023) during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University. The Begging … Continue reading Excerpt: The Begging Question
Nina Kushner is an associate professor of history at Clark University. She is author of Erotic Exchanges: Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris and coeditor of Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France. Andrew Israel Ross is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. He is … Continue reading Excerpt: Histories of French Sexuality
Adam Elder’s New Kids in the World Cup (Nebraska, 2022) is officially out today! Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. New Kids in the World Cup is the origin story of modern American … Continue reading Upcoming Events Schedule for Adam Elder’s New Kids in the World Cup
J.J. Anselmi’s Out Here on Our Own (Bison Books, 2022) tells the story of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a mining boomtown with a history of brutal racial violence, widespread addiction, prostitution, and a staggeringly high per-capita suicide rate—yet a place that has proved … Continue reading Book Trailer: Out Here on Our Own
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