Holiday break

The UIP blog will be on break until January 3, 2017.

When we return, it’ll be all hot new books on how neoliberal politicians sold, and sold out, the city of Chicago; excerpting an astonishing new book on how the Atlantic slave trade turned Africans into a commodity; the works of controversial science fiction master Alfred Bester; and the career of now-forgotten pop culture phenomenon May Irwin.

In the meantime, whatever you do for the holiday season: enjoy.