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Peggy Gavan, author of The Cat Men of Gotham: Tales of Feline Friendships in Old New York andThe Bravest Pets of Gotham: Tales of Four-Legged Firefighters of Old New York, leads tours in New York City for animal lovers.

The Rutgers University Press Podcast is available on the New Books Network platform. Listen to an array of Rutgers University Press authors discussing their books.

'May the 4th Be With You' ... WGN9 Chicago spoke to local professor Carmelo Esterrich, who teaches a class about Star Wars fandom and American culture at Columbia College Chicago.. it was inspired by a book he wrote, Star Wars Multiverse. he also co-hosts a Star Wars podcast.. and he's speaking at the Pop Culture Conference this weekend! Watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com...

"Focusing on the complexities behind Caribbean mediascapes, Jossianna Arroyo’s Caribes 2.0 represents an important and timely contribution to Caribbean, Latin American, Latinx, Afro-diasporic, media, and cultural studies. This provocative study does not shy away from addressing controversial topics (such as blackface) or lesser-known figures and cultural products, thus offering us a blueprint ...

There’s no single way to be a family. And every kind of family has something we can learn from. Host Blair Hodges explores the history and evolution of family structures, gender, and sexuality. Caregiving for aging and dying parents can be tough for anyone, but it's even tougher when it forces you to confront longtime family dynamics of abuse. Sociologist Deborah Cohan blurs the lines betwe...

Today, the 2024 Media Award nominees were announced in advance of the returning James Beard Awards ceremonies presented by Capital One. The list includes nominees in Book, Broadcast Media, and Journalism categories. This year's winners will be announced at the Media Awards ceremony in Chicago on the campus of Columbia College Chicago on Saturday, June 8. Check out all of the nominees here. ...

Is Israel a “settler-colonial” state? The debate, explained. The historical discussion at the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Derek Penslar, a history professor at Harvard University, writes in his book Zionism: An Emotional State about the various taxonomies of Zionism and that some of its early visionaries were critical of political Zionism’s aims... Read the piece here: htt...

As the U.S. population ages and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has increased. This book draws attention to the reserve of immigrant labour that is called on to meet this need.  Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care (Rutgers University Press, 2023) by Dr. Fumilayo Sho...

Emergency Abortion Care is Before the Supreme Court-and Blue States Should Be Very Worried. For decades, Catholic hospitals have been "doing as a norm what has now become the post-Dobbs landscape." Read more from Mother Jones about Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals here.

"Shut out of the locker rooms, young Wellesley grad and Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke was constantly missing the quotes that she needed to get the story. Locker Room Talk is the gripping first-hand report of how she took on Major League Baseball and with a ruling by Judge Constance Baker Motley, the nation’s first Black woman on the federal bench, changed the future of sports jour...

The following is taken from Aaron J. Leonard’s new book Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the End of the 1970s (Rutgers University Press; on sale May 17, 2024). "In the predawn hours of December 4, 1969, fourteen Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers, claiming they were searching for illegal weapons, raided a first-floor apartment on Chicago’s Monroe Stre...

Read the op-ed below. Creating the Hudson River Park: Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed by Tom Fox is on sale now! Fox will be in person in the park on May 9th at 5:30pm (Pier 25 at N. Moore St.) to share more about the book, the hidden gems of the park, and allow guests to experience what makes Hudson River Park so special. RSVP for the event via the link here. ...