Mahinder Kingra

Cover for the forthcoming Cornell University Press/ILR Press book, "From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954," edited by Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker, with cover art and design by Ben Katchor. The cartoon art depicts a street scene from NYC's Lower East Side, with a boy selling newspapers outside the IWO offices.

I'm very excited to share the cover for a forthcoming @cornellupress.bsky.social book that I sponsored on the International Workers Order (IWO), a 1930-50s immigrant and minority workers' cooperative undone by the Red Scare. The cover art/design is by the inimitable Ben Katchor (Julius Knipl, etc.)

Microliteratures by Jesús R. Velasco. translated by Consuelo López-Morillas. foreword by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin and Anne E. Lester | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Microliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern books. Not always as formal as glosses, sometimes feverish and abbreviated, these...

The margins were never empty.

MICROLITERATURES by Jesús R. Velasco uncovers the hidden world of #medieval readers who turned scribbles and side notes into a public, #political act.

#Reading will never look the same.

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The Dutch World of Washington Irving by Elisabeth Paling Funk | Hardcover | Cornell University Press The Dutch World of Washington Irving tells an alternative origin story of American literary culture. In December of 1809, before finding fame with "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,".....

Before Sleepy Hollow, there was satire, #folklore, and... Dutch?

In THE DUTCH WORLD OF WASHINGTON IRVING, Elisabeth Paling Funk uncovers the hidden roots of America's #literary legend.

It all starts in 1809 with a prank and a pseudonym.

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And a feisty Canadian superhero fighting off a rampaging monster from below the 49th parallel does have a satisfying resonance today

The cover of The Incredible Hulk, issue 181, with the Green Goliath fighting a yellow-and-blue costumed Wolverine, claws out, while the ape-like Wendigo charges in the background.

Hulk 181 famously introduced Wolverine in 1974, which is when 8-year-old me bought a copy at the local convenience store. If I’d had the foresight to hermetically seal it then, I could retire today. Ah well …It’s still a fun read, torn cover and all, fifty years later. #Marvel #comicbooks

And here’s what awaits attendees when they arrive tomorrow morning for the first day of #Kzoo2025.

The first person the bring me a Sweetwater’s donut will get a free ARC of Beni Kedar’s new book, “The Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem.” (Just kidding ….)

Just arrived in Kalamazoo!

Film still of a woman telling a group, “He worked for a publisher. Not much of a job.”

#PublishingOnScreen

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936). Jean Renoir (dir.), Jacques Prévert (scr.)

Photo of four stacks of comic books. Clockwise from top left: Black Panther, X-Men, Marvel Adventures feat. Daredevil, The Dark Knight Returns

Spending this rainy Saturday cataloguing my comic book collection (mostly ‘70s-90s) with the enthusiastic assistance of my 17-year-old daughter, who is amused by the back cover ads and impressed … OK, alarmed …by my ability to remember obscure characters and plotlines

Table in a conference center with books about New York State and a red table cloth proudly identifying the publisher as Cornell University Press

Welcome to Ithaca, Museum Association of New York attendees! @cornellupress.bsky.social has a table laden with new and recent books about all aspects of the Empire State - history, nature, biography, public health, even fiction - so stop by to browse, admire, and order (at a 40% discount)

I will be forever grateful I had the opportunity to meet Leonard Nimoy and tell him how much his portrayal of Spock inspired me as a half-Indian, half-English immigrant kid growing up in 1970s suburbia. He was, of course, gracious and kind as, I’m sure, my voice broke with emotion.

Or stop by @cornellupress.bsky.social’s stand at #RSA/SAA25 to hold the book and order a copy of the print copy (to complement your Open Access edition) at our too-good-to-be-true conference discount. (By law, I’m not allowed to state how big this discount is.)

Book cover for Laura Levine’s “Afterlives of Endor: Witchcraft, Theatricality, and Uncertainty from the Malleus Maleficarum to Shakespeare” featuring a painting by William Blake.

Book cover for Adhaar Noor Desai’s “Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition” featuring an illustration from a Renaissance writing manual.

Book cover for Christopher Lynch’s “Machiavelli on War” featuring a Renaissance painting of a battle

Today I crossed the Charles to attend #RSA/SAA 2025 for the first time and have been amazed by the enthusiasm at the book exhibit for our @cornellupress.bsky.social books like this ….

Cover for the book TO GOVERN IS TO SERVE: AN ESSAY ON MEDIEVAL DEMOCRACY by Jacques Dalarun, translated by Sean Field. The cover image features a nun washing the feet of another nun as an act of service, while other women religious look on.

A welcome flurry of excitement and interest at the #MAA25 book exhibit to start this year’s Medieval Academy. And on the program for Friday, TWO sessions on representative medieval governance inspired by this @cornellupress.bsky.social book by Jacques Dalarun, TO GOVERN IS TO SERVE

Three tables in a paneled room draped with Cornell University Press tablecloths and displaying books in medieval studies

The stage is set for #MAA2025. The book exhibit opens Thursday morning and I’ll be there to stand behind (literally and figuratively) @cornellupress.bsky.social’s latest titles in medieval history and literature. #medievalsky

My favorite in the franchise, too. Baltimore’s own Charles Dutton is terrific as leader of the convicts, the prison setting is inspired (yes, @kermodemovie.bsky.social, even if it’s not the wooden monastery planet that Vincent Ward envisioned 🙄) and it’s driven by Sigourney’s best outing as Ripley.

This was such a beautiful story. It inspired me to set up monthly donations to the @prisonjournalism.bsky.social. Prisons are only going to become more inhumane in the coming years and these reminders of our shared humanity will be more and more important.

Red Eye is nerve-jangling ride with a creepy Cillian Murphy and a resilient Rachel McAdams, directed by Wes Craven, and coming in under 90 minutes. What more do you want from cinema?

Psssst ... Did you hear that @cornellupress.bsky.social is giving away its #MLA25 display copies to graduate students on Sunday? Visit the Cornell UP stand (#116) between 9:00 and noon!

@cornellupress.bsky.social is known for many wonderful things: award-winning books, engaged authors, dedicated staff … But really, it’s all about the SOCKS! And you can get your free pair at #MLA2025

Congratulations to our #MLA2025 award winners: Adhaar Noor Desai, Sean Franzel, and Eric Keenaghan & Rowena Kennedy-Epstein. You can find these books and lots more at the @cornellupress.bsky.social stand in the exhibit hall.

I’ve been away from the socials for a few months but #MLA2025 seems an especially gentle way to reengage. @cornellupress.bsky.social is here in New Orleans. Booth #116: Laissez les bons livres rouler!

Mark will pick Planes, Trains, one of the rare Thanksgiving movies. My choice would be Rogue One: it’s my favorite movie in the Star Wars canon, and it spawned my favorite Star Wars (and among my favorite of all time) TV series, Andor

It’s time for Mark & Simon to get over their hatred of Q of S and to stop pretending (I hope they’re pretending!) that they don’t understand the title. It’s certainly not the worst Craig film (that would be Spectre) and, by long shot, not the worst Bond in the canon (View 2 a Kill, Die Another Day)

It’s The Last Jedi of the Gladiator franchise!

Here’s my weekend hot take: Gladiator II, for all its flaws (the baboons!) and historical inaccuracies, is a more interesting and entertaining movie than Gladiator, which I always found too self-important and self-serious. GII undermines the pieties of the OG, which has clearly annoyed many

Cover of the novel Mr. Wilder & Me by Jonathan Coe

I’m trying to buy fewer books these days (mostly for reasons of space) so it’s a treat when I HAVE to buy a book, say when I’ve unexpectedly finished one on a trip and find myself at a good airport bookstore and can pick up @jonathancoe.bsky.social’s charming, cine-literate novel, MR. WILDER & ME

I’ve been drinking cocktails for a long time but somehow only had my first Perfect Manhattan last month and I’ve made it my seasonal drink for the winter. Perfectly balanced between sweet (vermouth) and astringent (dry vermouth) #cocktailhour

The two most different movies on this list are also the two best: the increasingly prescient satire Starship Troopers and the lovely, magical I Know Where I’m Going.

Grad students attending the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference, I will be giving away the display copies at the @cornellupress.bsky.social table to starting on Saturday afternoon at 4:00 PM. Been coveting the brand new MODERNISM’S INHUMAN WORLDS by Rasheed Tazudeen? Now’s your chance!