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On Mary Anne Trasciatti's Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: "Trasciatti is at her strongest in the political realm." On Aaron J. Leonard's Menace of Our Time: "An overview that will help activists young and old to look at the mechanisms of repression in an era past and think about their refurbishment today." Read the full review here.

"Crossings takes a happier view of this subcultural queer practice. . . . The book is a provocative." —Los Angeles Review of Books Read the full review here.

★ "A wealth of geopolitical history bolsters the book, contextualizing the “fittingly capitalist backdrop” that surrounds the Darién Gap. With a pronounced anti-imperialist stance, it illuminates a clandestine matrix rooted in corruption, extortion, and dehumanization operating on a local and global scale. Pointing to an insidious underworld economy born in the shadow of mass migration, Fernán...

"Great deftly examines an era when a group of Black actors, writers, and comedians met and collaborated on a brand of subversive comedy that generated laughs while calling out the hypocrisy and absurdity of racism. . . . Great gives the talented men of the Black Pack their due in each chapter, while providing social and cultural lessons. . . . An entertaining and essential read." —Library Jour...

Take a walk down memory lane with Sheila Malovany-Chevallier DC’63 and Connie Borde DC’63, two inspiring Douglass College alumnae whose decades-long friendship started while waiting in a line on campus in 1959. The two friends reconnected in France, a year after graduation, and reflect on their lives filled with literature, language, and feminism. From writing grammar books and dreaming up bil...

★ "[A] devastating and dogged research investigation. . . . Smith evocatively ties her impressive archival sleuthing to memories of her father's disillusionment: 'Raised to revere the power of education and... democratic equality,' he 'did not just lose his job. He was robbed of his ideals.' Readers will be engrossed." —Publishers Weekly, starred review Read the full review here: https://ww...

In response to a Guardian piece, Karen Fang writes: In the recent piece on German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, Stuart Jeffries cites the classic Disney animated film, Bambi, as an example of Friedrich’s vast influence. This familiar claim is based on loose visual and historical connections tracing Walt Disney’s interest in European art and the apparent similarities between Fried...

We are proud to announce that Latin* Students in Engineering: An Intentional Focus on a Growing Population has been selected as one of the 2025 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education’s books-of-the year in the Edited Volume Category. Congratulations to the coeditors  Lara Perez-Felkner, Sarah L. Rodriguez and Ciera Fluker! More about the book.

A new book—co-authored by Kevin Wright, a criminal justice professor at Arizona State University, and a man named Erik Maloney, who's currently serving a life sentence at a prison in Arizona—is an argument for a correctional system that's informed by an understanding of the traumas that can lead people to commit crimes. In the book, Maloney interviews six fellow incarcerated people about their...

Rutgers University Press is pleased to announce a publishing partnership with the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS). The Institute of Jazz Studies is the largest and most comprehensive archive and library of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world. Founded in 1952 by jazz scholar Marshall Stearns (1908–1966), it has been a pioneering institution in the preservation and access of jazz her...

A podcast with Tom Fox, author of Creating the Hudson River Park: Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed. Click here and look for the July 16 podcast on the “Are We HERE Yet” podcast website.