Michael C. McKenzie is an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Keuka College. He is the author of The Ethics of Paul Ramsey: The Triumph of Agape in a Postmodern World and Jehovah’s Witnesses: Understanding Their Faith and Teachings. His newest book, A … Continue reading From the Desk of Michael McKenzie: Geography Matters
The following is a brief update from our publishing partners at The Jewish Publication Society. The JPS Essential Judaism series addresses our core beliefs and why they’ve mattered through many ages and still today. These informed yet approachable works offer … Continue reading New from JPS: Essential Judaism Series
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. The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by Ratika Kapur “It’s … Continue reading April Staff Reading List
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a couple upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in March. Anna Weir: Here we go, spring season! I dunno … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Poetry, Heroism, Failed Utopias, and Other March Books
Books Hard Damage Aria Aber Praise from the LA Review of Books: “If documentary witness shows us what is, Aber’s is a lyric witness—summoning the conditional and counterfactual as constitutive components of the present. It is exile’s promise: missing what … Continue reading News and Reviews
Books When Dream Bear Sings Gus Palmer Jr. Review in the Journal of Folklore Research: “A diverse collection of texts from each linguistic family of the Native American Southern Plains, When Dream Bear Sings evokes a singular editorial freedom, and in juxtaposing … Continue reading News and Reviews
Sonja Livingston is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to her newest book, The Virgin of Prince Street (Nebraska, 2019), she is also the award-winning author of Ghostbread, Ladies Night at the Dreamland, and Queen of the … Continue reading From the Desk of Sonja Livingston: On Inclining the Ear of the Heart
The following is an excerpt from Salvific Manhood: James Baldwin’s Novelization of Male Intimacy (October 2019) by Ernest L. Gibson III. Introduction In Search of the Fraternal My most immediate memories of my grandmother involve the church, the Black church, to … Continue reading Excerpt: Salvific Manhood
Hayes Peter Mauro is an associate professor of art and design at CUNY’s Queensborough Community College. His newest book is Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America (August 2019). A Note on Historiography History may be done in any number of … Continue reading From the Desk of Hayes Peter Mauro: A Note on Historiography
Books It’s My Country Too Women’s Military Stories from the American Revolution of Afghanistan Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow Praised by The Wrath-Bearing Tree: “In It’s My Country Too, there are stories about women in all the branches of military service, … Continue reading News and Reviews
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