This week is Peer Review Week! Behind the scenes of every university press is a host of dedicated peer reviewers who help ensure the scholarly merit and rigor of the work. To Reviewer One, and you too Reviewer Two, we salute you!

The enduring appeal of Jane Austen, 250 years after her birth The novelist’s anniversary has inspired a raft of admiring books. But can they explain why she still delights 21st-century readers?

ICYMI in the @ftweekend.com, a brilliant essay about how Jane Austen's 250th birthday has inspired a raft of admiring books about why she still delights 21st-century readers: www.ft.com/content/8c5c...

Featuring @devoney.bsky.social's new book, 'Wild for Austen', which is out this month! #booksky

Manchester University Press - Wild for Austen Wild for Austen - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Wild for Austen by Devoney Looser

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Marquette University is hosting the Legacies Conference 2025 from Sept. 4-7 with the theme of “The Legacies of Nicaea I and Vatican II: An Inheritance Unfolding.”

Have a look at our featured books!

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A.I. Is Coming for Culture We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what’s left for the human imagination?

With more A.I. creation, “it’s possible that the very notion of ‘content’ will go away, and that content will be replaced with live synthesis that’s designed to have an effect on the recipient,” the Silicon Valley pioneer Jaron Lanier said.

As a dad, I cannot see events like what happened today in Minneapolis and believe this is the best we can do.

My heart aches for the families, and of course, they have my thoughts and prayers.

But faith without works is dead.

We owe it to each other to do whatever it takes to be better.

How gun culture and the government fell back in love Thanks to racism and the war on terror, the two natural allies are walking hand in cold, dead hand again.

"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness."

From 2020:

Seen in The Onion regarding recent shooting:

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

Can We Please Talk About the Racism of Trump's Attack on Lisa Cook? Is it JUST about her being a Black woman? No. But it's the elephant in the room, and the coverage of the controversy is almost completely ignoring it.

1. The president is an obvious bigot

2. His administration is pursuing a panoply of racist and sexist policies

3. Lisa Cook is the first Black woman on the Fed board and has done research on economic effects of racism

How are we not talking about this?

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/can-we-ple...

Can We Please Talk About the Racism of Trump's Attack on Lisa Cook? Is it JUST about her being a Black woman? No. But it's the elephant in the room, and the coverage of the controversy is almost completely ignoring it.

Can We Please Talk About the Racism of Trump's Attack on Lisa Cook?

This is excellent from @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Also ties into what I see as Trump's "genius," his ability to personify how the politics of strategic racism are inseparable
from corruption.

I stand 100% with Lisa Cook.

Lisa Cook lawsuit v. Trump:

"Independent Federal Reserve also prevents presidential administrations from using monetary policy for self-serving political ends.. such as ensuring the govt cannot simply print more money to finance debt. This practice, when unchecked, can lead to economic collapse "