Is the soon-to-be-finished One World Trade Center the tallest building in the United States? Thomas Leslie, author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934, says maybe not. Leslie wrote an op-ed for the […]
Category: authors
Kings for Three Days author Jean Muteba Rahier Q&A
Jean Muteba Rahier is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the African & African Diaspora Studies Program at Florida International University. His book Kings for Three Days: The […]
Q&A with Fighting from a Distance author Jose Fuentecilla
During February of 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the dictatorship of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos. Jose V. Fuentecilla was involved in the anti-Marcos movement in the United States. Fuentecilla answered […]
The “Nikkei” path breaker with the St. Louis Cardinals
As the St. Louis Cardinals play their 2013 home opener today, Japanese or Japanese American players are no unusual site in Major League ballparks. But that wasn’t always the case. Samuel […]
Q&A with Rob White, author of Contemporary Film Directors book Todd Haynes
The Contemporary Film Directors series presents engagingly written commentaries on the work of living directors from around the world. Todd Haynes author Rob White was Commissioning Editor of Books at […]
Read an excerpt from One Woman in a Hundred
SymphonyNOW has posted an excerpt from Mary Sue Welsh’s book about trailblazing harpist Edna Phillips, One Woman in a Hundred. Phillips was the first woman to hold a principal chair […]
Nikkei Baseball on Only a Game
Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only a Game interviewed Samuel Regalado, the author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues. The interview […]
The South Asian invasion of the Oscars
Life of Pi was a big winner at last night’s Oscars, as the film was awarded in four categories including Best Director. Shilpa Davé, author of the forthcoming University of […]
Congratulations, Bruno Nettl
The University of Illinois News Bureau reports that UI Press author and U of I Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, Bruno Nettl, has been awarded the 2014 Charles Homer […]
Goodbye, Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, author, Illinois native, and subject of Becoming Ray Bradbury, has died. Jonathan Eller, his biographer, had this to say about him in an article last year in New […]
John Miles Foley
The University of Illinois Press mourns the passing of John Miles Foley, who died on May 3 at the age of 65. Our Press had the privilege of publishing his […]
ongoing effects of war
I work on a number of journals here, journals covering diverse topics, and the variety is really interesting. Some articles stick with me for a long time. Yesterday I had […]