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Congratulations to Sanjay Subrahmanyam and ACROSS THE GREEN SEA for making the longlist for the 2025 Cundill History Prize! Celebrate with us while we wait for shortlist and finalist announcements in the fall! 🎊

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Volume 43 of Studies in Latin American Popular Culture is now available Open Access on Project MUSE as part of their Subscribe-to-Open program!

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Here’s a look at what you’ll find inside the latest issue of Texas National Security Review, No. 8:3

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This book is REAL and it’s coming out on Sept. 30 (w/preorder open now)! 📚

Congrats to all connected with the long-awaited ‘Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic’ a game-changing oral history.

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My latest interview for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Spoke with author/professor Megan Volpert about her book “Why Alanis Morisette Matters” (@utexaspress.bsky.social, 2025) as the first critical biography of the iconic artist. Check it out here! newbooksnetwork.com/why-alanis-m... (1/2)

Here to drop a reminder that our warm weather sale is running though the end of July! Swipe through to see the great deals you can get on new and forthcoming titles when you shop on our website below!

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So much love for our dear friends at @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social! Support this great store if you're in Houston.

New Call for Papers!

The Velvet Light Trap Issue 98 Theme: MEDIA FUTURES

Deadline: September 21, 2025

The Mountain Embodied A study of the ancient practice of Andean head shaping and its cultural connotations. In the late sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors in Peru’s Colca Val...

THE MOUNTAIN EMBODIED reaches into the past to study the ancient practice of Andean head shaping and to explore the relationships between identities, bodies, landscapes, and history in the Colca Valley. ⛰️

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All of our Andean anthropology readers should check out Matthew C. Velasco's new book, THE MOUNTAIN EMBODIED, out today!

Did you know we're running our annual warm weather sale on our website through the month of July? When you shop UTP books, you can get print titles for 40% off and ebooks for 50% off using code UTXSPRING at checkout.

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Now available: a special issue of Journal of the History of Sexuality (34:2) on the topic of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe during the 1980s-90s.

Friends in San Antonio, consider your evening planned for you: at 5:30pm, y'all can head on over to The Twig Book Shop for a conversation and book signing with author Mark Lambert of TEXAS TAKES SHAPE!

Info below. You can thank us later 😉

"Some nights Springsteen records were the only thing saving me."

In case it slipped by you over the weekend, don't miss this beautiful excerpt from @nikostratis.com's THE DAD ROCK THAT MADE ME A WOMAN!

Enjoy complimentary access to The Textile Museum Journal during the month of July on Project MUSE!

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Out of the Gutters Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the p...

Delve into the taboo and the transgressive with OUT OF THE GUTTERS, available for course use (and casual reading) at the link below!

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This smart and timely volume pulls together comics, cartoons, and graphic novels and examines how the definitions of obscenity are broadening along with the growing sentiment of censorship.

OUT OF THE GUTTERS, one of UTP's newest releases, takes a closer look at the panels we read and explores what happens between them. 🧵

Someday All the Adults Will Die!: The Birth of Texas Punk by Pat Blashill Music journalist Blashill (Texas Is the Reason) presents a riotous, freewheeling oral history of punk rock in Texas from the lat...

A lovely first review, in @publisherswkly.bsky.social, for Pat Blashill's SOMEDAY ALL THE ADULTS WILL DIE!:

"A riotous, freewheeling oral history of punk rock in Texas from the late 1970s to the 1990s...a comprehensive portrait of a vibrant subculture."

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Showing some love to a few of our favorite indie bookshops this Pride season: Book Woman, The Little Gay Shop, Reverie Books, and Birdhouse Books!

Queer owned, community driven, and full of stories worth celebrating this month and every month. 🌈

Journal of the History of Sexuality is seeking new editors! 🔔

Niko Stratis On Building Identity Through Sound Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

We spoke with Niko Stratis about the tension between memory and meaning, evolving tastes, and using music to fill in the gaps in her new book, 'The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman.'

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To celebrate our 75th Anniversary, our very own Gianna is visiting 75 Texas bookstores in 75 Days! Follow G with us as she makes her journey around the state to a bookstore near you. First stop...Houston! Stay tuned, folks! 🧡

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Juneteenth Rodeo Honorable Mention — The International Photography Awards 2024 Book Category Jury Top 5 Selection — The International Photography Awards 2024 Book Categor...

Along with rich photography, this Juneteenth tribute includes essays by Bird & sports historian Demetrius Pearson recounting this all-but-vanished piece of Texas history.

Discover the riders, ropers, and communities in JUNETEENTH RODEO @ the link below!

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Bestselling writer Bird, then a photojournalist, captured everything at these East Texas rodeos, from the honky-tonk celebrations to cowgirls gearing up their saddles.

Happy #Juneteenth from UTP! 🧵

JUNETEENTH RODEO by Sarah Bird is a vibrant recollection of the world of 1970s small-town Black rodeos. Before Juneteenth became a national holiday, Black Texans held their own rodeos for generations—born out of segregation but filled with skill, pride, and joy.

NOW AVAILABLE: Velvet Light Trap issue 95, covering the theme of Media Values 💚

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My new interview for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Spoke with @nikostratis.com about “The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman" (@utexaspress.bsky.social‬, 2025), her memoir that explores the transformative healing power of music and the ways it changes our lives. (1/2) newbooksnetwork.com/the-dad-rock...