February 23, 2024
Billy Joel’s first single in seventeen years provides and occasion for reflection by Jim Cullen, author of Bridge and Tunnel Boys: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and the Metropolitan Sound of… READ MORE
February 21, 2024
“From the opening paragraph of its prologue, written by Rutgers Professor Whitney Strub, who also served as the book’s editor, Queer Newark—Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community ties modern art and activism… READ MORE
My book Funny Boy, the biography of gay Muppet performer Richard Hunt, began as a labor of love – as well it should have. When I was a kid in the… READ MORE
We’re excited to share that Derek Penslar’s book, “Zionism: An Emotional State,” was recently a finalist for the 73rd National Jewish Book Awards in the Modern Jewish Thought and Experience… READ MORE
November 17, 2023
The inaugural Robert Mortensen Book Prize is awarded to Camilla Townsend, co-author of On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren, published in 2023. Rutgers University Press was… READ MORE
