If you're in Chicago today, don't miss the 2024 Translation Studies Lecture: 'On Translating Al-Hariri's Impostures' by Michael Cooperson, convened by Rachel Galvin - 'Impostures' came out in 2020 Library of Arabic Literature NYU Press with a foreword by #AbdelfattahKilito #translation
Gay Bittertweets Matthew Guertin Thanx for amplifyin'
'Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest & Politics'
Extraordinary NYU Press book edited Michael G. Long featurin' Beloved Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice Board Members Dr. Peniel E. Joseph 🇭🇹🇺🇸 & Walter Naegle as well as our Chief Activist Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber & good friend Jonathan Eig
Dr. Maddalena Marinari and I are delighted to have submitted the manuscript of 'Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move' to NYU Press, ready for production and due out in spring 2025 in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series Glucksman Ireland House NYU. Thank you to all the authors! 🧵1/3
Congratulations to Sarah McFarland Taylor (Sarah McFarland Taylor)! Her book Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue has won The Iris Book Award, given by the Center for Religion & the Human at Indiana University (@thehuman_iub).
Abby Weed Grey is the art collector who started the Grey Gallery at New York University, and her fascinating life is detailed in her memoir The Picture Is the Window, the Window Is the Picture. This book is now available for FREE on Open Square. buff.ly/4aZgK2B
This #ReviewoftheWeek applies a botanical lens to writing from 19th-century authors, analyzing how writers’ attitudes toward plants contributed to their political actions in 'The Garden Politic' from @nyupress: ow.ly/Sfoq50Rpz9c #Ecocriticism #Botany
'A stimulating examination of how the stories of talented Black children from American history reflect the complicated intersection of race and childhood... historians will find much to ponder.' Publishers Weekly
'Most Americans have little idea about what actually happens behind the walls or concertina wire, or they have skewed images from movies or TV. Doran Larson has worked to foreground the voices and experiences of those who are incarcerated.' Los Angeles Review of Books
Thank you to The Society for the Study of Social Problems for choosing 2 NYU Press books as finalists for the C. Wright Mills Award! Congratulations to Cassaundra Rodriguez, author of Contested Americans, and Mahala Dyer Stewart, author of The Color of Homeschooling.
Two years after the Dobbs decision leaked, Emily K. Carian considers the role of men in the fight for reproductive justice. Her compelling insights emerged from working on her book, Good Guys and Bad Guys: The Perils of Men's Gender Activism. buff.ly/4a3ijvd
'In this astute account, historian Feld (Nations Divided) demonstrates that criticism of Zionism by American Jews is not a recent phenomenon... This meticulous study is a valuable contribution to ongoing debates over America’s relationship with Israel.' Publishers Weekly
