Justus Nieland and Jennifer Fay are delighted to serve as the new editors of Illinois’s Contemporary Film Directors series. James Naremore is a tough act to follow. Jim has created a […]
The International Brecht Society interviews writer Jonathan Pappas about Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie. Mr. Pappas offers many kind words for Will Kaufman’s new book Woody Guthrie, American Radical. “If anything […]
For the sixth consecutive year, the University of Illinois Press will have a large presence at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest. Festival goers can visit the University of […]
Jarod Roll’s book Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South has been awarded the Working Class Studies Association’s 2011 C.L.R. James Award for best published book for academic […]
In February 2012 we will publish Before the Curse: The Chicago Cub’s Glory Years, 1870-1945, which contains vintage newspaper accounts and historical essays on my favorite baseball team. I’ve been reading the […]
Our new Journal of Animal Ethics continues to inspire news coverage and opinion columns around the globe. The latest comes from the Vancouver Courier. “I admit I like a good online video of […]
Charles D. Thompson Jr, author of the new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World, will sign copies at Book […]
Beauvoir and Her Sisters examines how French women developed a sense of political engagement, or “sisterhood,” through the act of public reading and writing in the 1970s and 1980s. Amongst […]
Looking for that perfect gift for your UIUC graduate? Larry Kanfer will sign copies of his new photography book Illini Loyalty: The University of Illinois during graduation weekend. Visit him at […]
There are many No Depression fans here at the Press so we’re always pleased when the roots music authority highlights one of our titles. This month Grant Alden discusses Robert […]
Bar Biszick-Lockwood’s book Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs will receive the Country Music Book of the Year Award by the International Country Music […]
Right now a man-made flood is inundating part of Missouri after the US Army Corps of Engineers ‘activated’ the Bird’s Point-New Madrid Spillway by dynamiting the riverfront levee guarding parts […]