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"A fascinating and fact-filled look at Gotham in the Roaring Twenties."

Read the full Kirkus review of Jonathan Ezra Goldman's Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York at tinyurl.com/37t8nes9!

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This week's #EditorsPick is from Mike Rinella, Senior Acquisitions Editor. In Wayward and Homebound, famed philosopher William Desmond considers distinctive features of Irish thought including religion, culture, and poetry.
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CULTURE AND TACTICS shows how movement tactics do more than achieve goals, they publicly expose injustice and shape political community.

Linking Gramsci with critical race theory, it offers a new way to think about race, mobilization, and solidarity.

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#PES2026 Discover WALTER FEINBERG'S DEMOCRATIC VISION, classic writings exploring what democracy requires of public schools.

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What does it mean to bear witness, and what might that teach us about education?

In THE WITNESS AS EDUCATOR, David T. Hansen explores witnessing as an ethical response to the world through the work of W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, and Walt Whitman.

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What happens when teachers and philosophers write together about the real challenges of education?

TEACHERS AND PHILOSOPHY explores the powerful collaboration between education practitioners and philosophers of education.

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"Tad Richards chronicles the history, recordings and artists of the renowned Prestige label, including biographies, anecdotes, discography and musical analysis."

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What if research-creation began not with modern interdisciplinarity, but with the alchemical studio?

Forthcoming 4/26, tinyurl.com/2fvfbkxb reimagines research-creation through premodern alchemical practices, where art, science, knowledge, & sensation were never divided.

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#NeMLA26 discover recent titles and learn about publishing with us!

Stop by the SUNY Press virtual booth to explore new scholarship in literary studies, cultural studies, and save 30% with code SNMLA26 through April 8, 2026.

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60 years. 109 awards and counting. 🎉 Marking our anniversary by celebrating SUNY Press titles recognized across the humanities and social sciences. See them at tinyurl.com/2wzam9zs.
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FRACTURE FEMINISM explores how Romantic-era writers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Barbauld, and Mary Shelley challenged linear time, writing the present as if from the future and turning time into a site of feminist politics.

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FROM HAVANA TO HOLLYWOOD explores how Cuban and Hollywood films portray Black resistance to slavery, and why Cuban cinema foregrounds Black agency in ways Hollywood often avoids.

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Our latest guest blog post is from Jozef Majerník, author of The Young Nietzsche's Education: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Untimely Considerations, which is now available in paperback.

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Is authors’ treatment by publishers getting worse? Complaints from authors abound about interminable delays, long silences, unfair rejections and shoddy copy-editing. But are standards really slipping? And, if so, where does the blame lie? Matthew Rei...

Interesting read @timeshighered.bsky.social today. The Perils of academic book publishing analysed!

Quotes @sunypress.bsky.social' @rcolesworthy.bsky.social recent article too.

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Through a century of trade and war, 19th-century China was pulled into the orbit of European capitalism. This book interrogates this shift, showing how the collapse of China's imperial order paved the way for its capitalist transition.

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We're celebrating Women's History Month! Save 30% on select titles with code SWHM26 through March 31. Browse the sale at tinyurl.com/55v7n9k6.
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#4C26 Teaching composition, researching rhetoric, or looking for course texts?

Visit the SUNY Press virtual booth and explore new and forthcoming books in writing studies, rhetoric, literacy, and related fields.

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Congratulations to Alexis McGee whose book FROM BLUES TO BEYONCÉ has won the 2026 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award, presented by the @cfshrc.bsky.social

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Wastelands and Wonderlands

Out next month @sunypress.bsky.social! Warm congrats, @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & thx for having Callum & me! sunypress.edu/Books/W/Wast...

If you're in the Toronto area, I'll be speaking about themes related to Virality Vitality at McMaster on March 12th (full info in the flier below). An enormous thank you to Derek Woods for organizing, and to David Clark and Zachary Gan for being in conversation with me. I hope to see you there!

The Campus Crisis Toolkit is the first book to address campus crises that's by and for faculty, staff, and students—the true heart of higher ed and the people who make it work.
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"...it was a delight to have author Tad Richards educate me about the rich history of the Prestige record label during its existence from 1949 to 1972, about its founder Bob Weinstock, and about the many, many jazz greats who recorded for the label."

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Here's @ryantopper.bsky.social with his book Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature, which is now available in paperback! sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...
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Today's #StaffPick is from Tanja Eise, Director of Marketing & Sales. Black Campus Life challenges our assumptions about both the STEM pipeline crisis and campus racial climate by centering what's often missing from these conversations: the actual lives of Black students.
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"…the book has an admirable range and supplies a convincing account of the director's work in its Italian social context and of international film culture in the postwar decades." — @choicereviews.bsky.social

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Hitchcock turns hospitality into suspense. Forthcoming in May HITCHCOCK AND HOSPITALITY explores crises of welcome—from REBECCA to VERTIGO and THE BIRDS—showing how he manipulates access to homes, trains, and even film itself.

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#ACLA2026 Explore post-9/11 cinema with NO JURISDICTION, where cowboys, femme fatales, and superheroes reveal how genre films shape law, culture, and collective trauma.

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#ACLA2026 #ReadUP on MICHEL FOUCAULT'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY!

Maddalena Cerrato uncovers a consistent, coherent philosophical itinerary where political analysis, history, epistemology, and ethics converge.

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Forthcoming in May: NEW RAPE STUDIES—14 essays showing why the fight against sexual violence needs the humanities. Literary criticism, film, art, and more shape a new generation of feminist thought.

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BROKEN RECORD documents bullying & abuse in academia — from classrooms to conferences — and shows how to resist, heal, and demand change.

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