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Cover of The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars by Mariam Goshadze. The top portion features a sepia toned photograph of three drums lying on their side on the ground with the legs of a crowd of people visible behind them. The main title is atop the photo and the subtitle and author name are below it in a cream-colored block. There is a vertical line of pink, cream, and white circles on the right side of the design.

The Weekly Read is "The Noise Silence Makes" by Mariam Goshadze, an examination of noise and religion in Ghana. Read the entire book for free now!
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Covers of The Human in Bits, Political Theology Reimagined, As If! and Knowing As Moving, arranged in a 2x2 grid.

Among our many #NewBooks in August, check out "Knowing As Moving" by Susan Leigh Foster, "As If!" by Chase Gregory, "Political Theology Reimagined, edited by Alex Dubilet and Vincent W. Lloyd and "The Human in Bits" by Kris Cohen.
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Cover of The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred by Joseph R. Winters. The cover art features an abstract pattern of black circles against a white background. Roughly half of the circles have a solid fill, leaving little of the white background visible. The other circles have a brushstroke-like texture. The title and subtitle are in bold block text, in orange and white respectively. The author’s name appears at the bottom in light yellow.

Be sure to check out all of our August new releases, including "The Disturbing Profane" the #NewBook on hip hop and religion from Joseph A. Winters.
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Cover of The Bajío Revolution: Remaking Capitalism, Community, and Patriarchy in Mexico, North America, and the World by John Tutino. The cover features 19th-century artwork by Manuel Serrano. The piece depicts a dusk street scene with people gathered around a vendor cooking food. Women and children receive what appear to be tortillas from a man kneeling by a pot, while others converse or walk past. The setting is warmly lit, with another vendor, a crowd of people, and stone buildings in the background.

Cover of Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies by Neta Alexander. The background is black with iridescent pastel graphics and text. Four digital interface icons appear vertically: a sun symbol, a play button, a circular arrow, and an accessibility figure with outstretched arms. The title is placed centrally in a thin, sans serif font, with the author’s name to the right of the icons.

Cover of Humanity′s Ruins: Ethics, Feminism, and Genocidal Humanitarianism by Danielle Bouchard. Cover of Humanity’s Ruins: Ethics, Feminism, and Genocidal Humanitarianism by Danielle Bouchard. The design features colorful, abstract, and gritty artwork overlaid with faint, repeated black text reading “humanity’s ruins” on a rainbow gradient. The title appears in thin white sans-serif type in the upper left corner.

Check out our #NewBooks in August, including "The Bajío Revolution" by John Tutino, "Humanity's Ruins" by Danielle Bouchard, and "Interface Frictions" by Neta Alexander.
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Cover of Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. The cover features a photo of a small concrete building painted with red polka dots, set in an arid landscape under a clear blue sky. The house is part of an art installation by Álvaro Enciso, "La Casa de los Puntos Rojos." The image is placed against a black background with minimalist white and pale blue text. Small red dots accent the corners of the design.

"Beyond Sanctuary," a collection of essays edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky, is among the 17 great new books we have releasing in August. Check them out!
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Cover of Toward a Selected Writings, Volume 1: New African Art Discourse by Okwui Enwezor, edited by Terry Smith. The cover features a close-up photograph of Okwui Enwezor, wearing a dark suit and patterned shirt, with a calm expression. Below the image, the title and editor information are displayed on a black background, complemented by a colorful horizontal stripe running across the top, adding a modern and dynamic element.

Cover of Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition by Okwui Enwezor, edited by Terry Smith. The cover features a close-up photograph of Okwui Enwezor, dressed in a dark suit and white shirt, with a neutral expression. Below the image, the title and editor information are displayed on a black background with a colorful horizontal stripe running across the top, adding a vibrant touch.

Check out all our #NewBooks in August, including a two-volume set of the selected writings of the great curator Okwui Enwezor. Edited by Terry Smith, this is a must-own for anyone in the art world!
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Cover of Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America by Daniel Horowitz. Cover is yellow. The title is in large white text in the center. The author name is in small brown text in the upper right corner and the subtitle is in small brown text in the lower right. On the bottom left is an image of Smokey the Bear, holding a shovel, pointing directly at the viewer.

Cover of Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger by Sophie Chao. The cover features a photograph, taken by the author, of dried betel nuts in a plastic bag. The dried nuts are brown and disk shaped with a wrinkled surface. The bag also contains what appear to be green pods. A finger belonging to a person with Black skin points at the dried nuts.

Cover of Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory by Ronald Radano. The title is displayed in large, spaced-out capital letters in cream and white against a dark blue gradient background. Below the subtitle is a metallic music box cylinder, viewed from the front, with numerous pins sticking out, evoking mechanical sound production. The author’s name appears at the bottom in bold, light blue text.

Sophie Chao's "Land of Famished Beings," Daniel Horowitz's "Bear With Me," and "Alive in the Sound" by Ronald Radano are among our many #NewBook releases in August.
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Cover of Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair by Joseph Pierce. The background is bright yellow with an artwork by Jeffy Gibson, Chief Pretty Eagle, at its center. Gibson's piece is a colorful, geometric collage composed of repeating, partially obscured portraits of an Indigenous American man. The composition also includes bright chevron patterns, a beaded, reversed American flag, and a red button that reads "Question Reality."

We have some great new books coming out in August, including "Speculative Relations" by @pepepierce.bsky.social, which considers the potential of Indigenous relations to repair the damages of history and imagine new futures.
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Cover of Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice and Belonging by M. Wolff. The background is bright yellow. The title appears in a bold, sans serif, cyan font just below the vertical center of the cover. In the upper left-hand corner, there is a photo booth print of Sally Gross. Gross is smiling and wears a blue shirt that matches the shade of the title text.

Among our great #NewBooks coming out in August is "Body Problems" by @wolffdr.bsky.social, which tells the story of Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and activist.
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Cover of Latin America in Debate by Maristella Svampa, translated by Alejandro Reyes. The cover features a stylized map of Latin America filled with colorful, intricate textile patterns. The background is a textured orange hue. The title is displayed in bold white and blue letters.

Among our many #NewBooks coming out this month, be sure to check out "Latin America in Debate," by Maristella Svampa and translated by Alejandro Reyes.
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Graphic reading New Books out this month, featuring covers of Bear With Me, Speculative Relations, Interface Frictions, and Land of Famished Beings.

August is a huge #NewBook month for us! Check out our 17 new releases and get your copies now.
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Cover of Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America by Daniel Horowitz. Cover is yellow. The title is in large white text in the center. The author name is in small brown text in the upper right corner and the subtitle is in small brown text in the lower right. On the bottom left is an image of Smokey the Bear, holding a shovel, pointing directly at the viewer.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Bear With Me," by historian Daniel Horowitz, which examines Americans' fascination with real and fictional bears.
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Cover of My Studio is a Dungeon is the Studio by Nayland Blake, edited by Jarrett Earnest. A photograph shows the author wearing a black leather cap and vest, glasses, and pink underwear with a furry tail attachment. They are at an easel with a black rabbit mask hanging on a corner. They have an intricate tattoo sleeve on their left arm. The book title is in large purple text on a black background at the top.

"My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio" gathers forty years of artist @naylandblake.bsky.social ’s groundbreaking thought and writing on their personal explorations of kink and creativity. Read editor Jarrett Earnest's intro for free now: buff.ly/wRlyvAO

The Open Access journal Environmental Humanities publishes outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship that draws on humanities disciplines to engage in conversation with one another, and with the natural and social sciences, around significant environmental issues. Read issue 17:2 buff.ly/8kwhEtk

Cover of What Had Happened Was by Therí Alyce Pickens. Cover appears to be a watercolor canvas with an orangish background, speckled with brown. A series of brown figures in sillhouette appear on the right side of the cover. They seem to be whispering to each other.

Marlas Yvonne Whitley interviews Therí Alyce Pickens about her new book of poetry, "What Had Happened Was" on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/what-had-hap...

Cover of Homesick by Nicholas Shapiro. A small white mobile home is at the center of cover image, with a single window and a pipe protruding from its base. The scene is quiet and minimal, with gravel and asphalt in the foreground and large trees framing the background. The title “Homesick” appears in large, minimalistic serif text across the bottom, with the author’s name in smaller capital letters beneath it.

In "Homesick," Nicholas Shapiro examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/MiN6Otd

Volume 105 Issue 3 | Hispanic American Historical Review | Duke University Press

Hot off the digital press at @dukepress.bsky.social, HAHR 105.3, a special issue entitled "Infrastructures of Spanish Empire." read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/issue/1...

Cover of The Philosophical Review, Volume 134, Number 3, July 2025. The design features a solid red background with the journal title in large white serif text, centered in the upper half. A thin teal horizontal line separates the title from the issue information below. At the bottom, white text states that the journal is published for the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University by Duke University Press.

“No philosophy journal published in English is more highly regarded than the Philosophical Review.”
—David Sanford, Duke University

Issue 134:3 is now online, view the TOC: buff.ly/1PNSchP

Coming in November! Excited to talk about my book in one of my favorite bookstores with one of my favorite people.

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Bangkok after Dark

Happy to schedule classroom visits (live or remote) if you're assigning "Bangkok After Dark" in a class this coming year. Don't need any kind of honorarium, I'm just happy to talk about music, SE Asia, race, sex/gender, and history with smart, curious people.

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How Okwui Enwezor Made the Art World Bigger A new collection of his writings, out in August from Duke, reveals the thinking behind his boundary-breaking curatorial work.

Art in America reviews our new two-volume set of curator Okwui Enwezor's Selected Writings, saying it's bittersweet, but encourages us "to see the contemporary not as a break from the past but as a complex storm of past histories, old habits, and new possibilities." buff.ly/aPAfpNR

Duke University Press. The Disturbing Profane
Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred. Joseph R. Winters.

In The Disturbing Profane, Joseph R. Winters explores how hip hop’s religiosity is found in qualities associated with the dark sacred. Rather than purity and wholeness, this expression

Volume 105 Issue 3 | Hispanic American Historical Review | Duke University Press

Very interesting new issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review @dukepress.bsky.social on Infrastructures of Spanish Empire read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/issue/1...

Announcing the Finalists for the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards This year marks 37 years

Congrats to our @lambdaliterary.org award finalists Clare Croft and @susanstryker.bsky.social!
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Heeyyy Boo Boo! This looks like an interesting book. 😉

Seriously, it truly does. #Booksky

How race, environment and capitalist development interact on Colombia’s Magdalena River - LSE Review of Books Artery by Austin Zeiderman identifies the Magdalena River in Colombia as a key site of the expansion of colonial and racial capitalism in the Americas. With a state-backed megaproject poised to transf...

Elated to share my review of Artery: Racial Ecologies on Columbia's Magdalena River by @azeiderman.bsky.social

@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

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Cover of The Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR), Volume 105, Issue 3, August 2025. The special issue is titled “Infrastructures of Spanish Empire.” The background features a vintage nautical map in red and blue tones, depicting ships, sea creatures, and Latin inscriptions. The journal title is prominently displayed at the top in bold white text against a red background.

"Infrastructures of Spanish Empire," a special issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review, is now online. View the full TOC and read "'We Distrust the Whole Universe'" by Martín Bowen, made freely available: buff.ly/G0qONWo

Cover of The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred by Joseph R. Winters. The cover art features an abstract pattern of black circles against a white background. Roughly half of the circles have a solid fill, leaving little of the white background visible. The other circles have a brushstroke-like texture. The title and subtitle are in bold block text, in orange and white respectively. The author’s name appears at the bottom in light yellow.

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Disturbing Profane," Joseph R. Winters's look at religion and hip hop.
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Cover of The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar by Desjarlais, Robert. The cover features a graphite drawing by Éric Manigaud, Elie Kagan #1. The hyperrealistic artwork depicts a damaged bicycle lying on its side in a wet street, surrounded by scattered shoes and debris. A crumpled bundle of clothing lies nearby. In the background, four people stand along a wall, partially reflected in a large puddle. The scene is dimly lit and grainy.

In "The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar," Robert Desjarlais uses photography to explore how the French colonial state and police violence shaped the lives and deaths of Algerians. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/mivot1X #anthropology

Screenshot of review of Bear With Me in Publishers Weekly with cover of book. Text is too long to excerpt completely but begins: "In this witty and thought-provoking examination of America’s relationship with bears, historian Horowitz (American Dreams, American Nightmares) zeroes in on the ways that humans have feared, loved, and exploited these charismatic creatures."

Great review of Daniel Horowitz's new book "Bear With Me" in @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "Wide-ranging and entertaining, this is a clever work of cultural history."
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