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The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Mud in Our Mouths by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett - The Sundress Blog This selection, chosen by guest editor Merrick Sloane, is from Mud in Our Mouths by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Northwestern University Press, 2025).                  Perseids Season First, a new barber fin...

All week, the lovely folks at Sundress Publications are going to be posting selections from Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social as The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed feature. Here’s the first poem, “Perseids Season.”

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Submit a new translation of important literary & scholarly works to the 2026–27 Humanities in Translation Prize by Jan. 16 ✏️ This prize aims to bring international attention to works from around the world, particularly from less commonly translated languages.

On Poetry: November 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @nupress.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social #booksky

Nonaligned Imagination - Northwestern University Press Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations   Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seekin...

In honor of #ASEEES, @nupress.bsky.social is offering a 40% discount on select titles until Dec. 1. You can get your discounted copy of 'Nonaligned Imagination' by entering code ASEEES2025!
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Summoning the Past Through Words and Images: A Conversation with Patricia Smith About "Unshuttered" - Chicago Review of Books A list of Patricia Smith’s achievements in poetry could take up much of this interview. A poet, playwright, essayist, educator and mentor, she’s deservedly won nearly every accolade and award, includi...

We are so thrilled for @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social, who just won a National Book Award!! In 2023, @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social interviewed her about “Unshuttered” (@nupress.bsky.social), check it out as we celebrate her win in Chicago 🥳
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Today we celebrate Patricia Smith for winning the National Book Award for Poetry. There isn't a more deserving poet of the honor.

The Curators by Maggie Nye The Curators is fascinating, perplexing, and difficult.

Wait, it’s Monday again?!

Here’s the excellent Roy Salzman-Cohen on Maggie Nye’s The Curators (@nupress.bsky.social).

A historical fantasy that defies forced unities, Roy inds that “The Curators refuses to answer many of its own questions” - but maintains a productive tension.

Grateful for Ashton Freeman’s thoughtful, kind review of Mud in Our Mouths @nupress.bsky.social in Waxwing:

"Flynn-Goodlett is telling us we have arrived at our destination. It’s time to follow her into the forest, to take off our shoes and fill our pockets with berries, too."

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Winter approaches, which means it's time for us to get serious about reading explorations of influential intellects.

Who better to revisit than diplomat, philosopher, spy, and prophet of the end of history Alexandre Kojève?

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#TeamUP in the Arts, Performing Arts, and Media Studies, University Press Week, featuring 3 book jackets: -Animal Crossing, New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us? -Time Well Spent: An American Architect in Europe, 1893 -We Are Civic Media

#TeamUP and #ReadUP in the arts, performing arts & media studies with works by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, @n-w-f.bsky.social, @cmupress.bsky.social, @nupress.bsky.social & more in the #UPWeek Gallery https://bit.ly/3WTl7XD

At the American Society for Theatre Research conference, we met @stanfordpress.bsky.social author Samar Al-Saber with his book, A Movement's Promise & also @nupress.bsky.social author Isaiah Mathhew Wooden with Reclaiming Time, Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture. #astr2025 #theatre

In honor of ASTR's 2025 conference, take a look at some of our recent and forthcoming books in theater and performance studies.

Whether you want to hone your craft, read innovative plays, or delve deep into the history of performance, there is something to love.

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747 Graphomaniac - The Story of a Horrible Russian Poet (with Ilya Vinitsky and James H. McGavran III | My Last Book with Stephanie Sandler | #8 Greatest Book of All Time Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov (1757-1835) might be the worst poet who ever lived. Pathologically prolific and delusional dedicated to a craft for which he had no talent…

Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov (1757-1835) might be the worst poet who ever lived. In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Ilya Vinitsky and translator James H. McGavran III about their book, The Graphomaniac, which explores the life of Khvostov. #books @nupress.bsky.social

back home, to middle daughter’s piano lesson, attempting to open new poetry titles by Sandra Doller, Elizabeth Robinson an’ Anne F. Walker, / @nupress.bsky.social

Anne Libera & Elliott Kalan - "Funnier" & "Joke Farming" | Seminary Co-op Bookstores My Account     Logout Join Our Mailing List

Calling all comedy fans in Chicago! Join Elliott Kalan, the author of JOKE FARMING and cohost of @flophousepodcast.bsky.social, and Anne Libera, the author of FUNNIER (new from @nupress.bsky.social), for a conversation about writing comedy on Sunday, November 16 at 57th Street Books!

I really enjoyed reading and reviewing Negative Life by @jttremblay.bsky.social and @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social for Ecozon@. A wonderful book that conceptualizes art and extinction beyond pastoral narratives of interconnectedness and exalted (green) consciousness!

There's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED.

What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.

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I bought 2 copies of The Wanderer, one for myself & one for a grad student in my program. We are planning to read it together in the new year—it would be fun to have some more people to read it with, so buy yourself a copy and join us!

The Wanderer - Northwestern University Press The first English-language translation of an eccentric, unclassifiable classic    An unnamed narrator embarks on a rambling journey across the diverse bord...

Come with our unnamed narrator as he embarks on a rambling journey across the diverse borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman Empires—all without leaving his divan. #ReadUP

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Are you experiencing ennui? Do you yearn to take up your walking stick and stare at the distant hills? Have no fear. The first English translation of Alexander Veltman's THE WANDERER is here.

Wonderful book launch of 'Nonaligned Imagination' yesterday! Grateful to all the colleagues, students, and friends who helped me celebrate this book and asked great questions during Q&A! Hope to announce more events soon. @nupress.bsky.social

The cover of the book Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz, edition published by Northwestern University Press in 2025.

Judging from countless reader responses over the last 11 years that the book has been out (its most recent incarnation below), I’d offer Excavation: A Memoir as horror. Also, true crime (with thanks to Myriam Gurba for being in conversation with me about this for years). bookshop.org/p/books/exca...

Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts - Tin House As an artist, how does one dive into the wreck of an archive, a canon, a shared collective memory, a history—one filled with silenced voices, distorted accounts, erasures and elisions—on behalf of tho...

Excited to share this conversation with @dianaarterian.bsky.social about her new poetry collection AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER (@nupress.bsky.social) & her upcoming co-translation SMOKE DRIFTS (@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social) of the remarkable Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman

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Funnier - Northwestern University Press A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director Great comedy can feel ineffable—and unlearnable. Debunking t...

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We had a riotous time at the Second City launch event for famed improv and comedy teacher Anne Libera's FUNNIER: A NEW THEORY FOR THE PRACTICE OF COMEDY.

It's clear why her students like Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Kristen Schaal, Steven Yeun love her mentorship and experience.

Finding Joy After Grief: No Stars in Jefferson Park - Chicago Review of Books No Stars in Jefferson Park, Maggie Andersen’s debut memoir scheduled to release in October, is at its core a Chicago story of working-class triumph in the face of adversity. It is a romantic story of ...

"Maggie Andersen is a courageous writer, someone worthy of readers’ investment of time getting to know."

@randyontheglobe.bsky.social's review of “No Stars in Jefferson Park” by Maggie Andersen (@nupress.bsky.social) is out now.
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The prize is for new translations of literature and scholarship, and the winner will receive a total cash prize of $5,000 as well as a commitment from Northwestern University Press to publish the finished work.

Head to our page for full submission details: nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...

The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Northwestern University Press are pleased to announce the Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize competition for 2026-27!

2026-27 THEME: Hospitality (or the absence, opposite, or excess thereof).