I’m sitting in Doha, Qatar, on January 27, 2009, at about 4pm Arabian Standard Time—here this year on a faculty appointment at the new Northwestern University-Qatar campus in Education City. […]
Poet Laureate Kevin Stein featured in the Chicago Tribune
Kevin Stein, poet laureate of Illinois and author of the new book of poems Sufficiency of the Actual, was featured in the January 24, 2009, edition of the Chicago […]
The New York Times mentions “King of the Queen City”
Sunday’s New York Times profiled Cincinnati’s King Records, an early recording home to James Brown. In the piece, writer RJ Smith mentioned our forthcoming book King of the Queen City: The […]
Is President Obama Reading a UI Press book?
On inauguration day, Aretha Franklin gave President Barack Obama a collection of her dad’s sermons, along with a biography of her late father. Is it possible that she gifted Obama […]
Antenor Firmin predicted America’s first Black president in 1885! by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was a Haitian scholar whose De l’égalité des Races Humaines (Anthropologie Positive) in 1885 (Paris) was a response to European racialist and racist thought in the […]
Layoffs at Oxford University Press
Publishers Weekly reports that Oxford University Press is cutting 60 positions in its U.S. offices. OUP spokesperson Christian Purdy said besides shedding jobs, the press was not planning any dramatic […]
The hunter gets captured by the game?
I’ll be looking for my official Book Reviewer Union Card in the mail soon. […]
Flora Jan by Fleur Yano
Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan chronicles the life of a Chinese American flapper/journalist. Her letters to a German immigrant friend from Russia describe her youth in California, her college […]
University press sales report
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today on the most recent sales survey conducted by the Association of American University Presses. How badly has the recession hit university presses? In a […]
Three university presses share grant from Mellon Foundation for book series in folklore
The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in collaboration with the American Folklore Society, have been awarded a grant from the […]
The New Yorker recommends “Lincoln the Lawyer” online
The New Yorker blog The Book Bench recommends Brian Dirck’s Lincoln the Lawyer. […]
A Red Family, Obama, and the Continuing American Revolution by Mickey Friedman
Like so many others who grew up in the Civil Rights movement, I am amazed to see the triumph of hope and the desire for change trump racism. As a […]