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Personal Demons: Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism

“Essential, urgent reading for anyone inhabiting the death throes of liberalism.” - Bill Brown, Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture, University of Chicago

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Speaking of America

David M. Rubenstein

“David Rubenstein’s Speaking of America is a dazzling master class in the realm of high-minded public dialogue and discourse. The roster of top-tier thought leaders presented here is exemplary.  Rubenstein’s vigorous Q&A approach to public education and higher learning would have made Ralph Waldo Emerson proud. Highly recommended!” - Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University
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Ninety-Nine

Mittermaier, Amira

“This is a moving, poetic, elegant, and beautifully written book about how people experience God in Egypt. It is a reflection on how God is felt and heard and seen, and thus, about how God is held in the awareness of God’s followers in richly varied ways. Sometimes secular observers think that the main anthropological question about religion is belief. This book shows us how flat-footed that perspective can be.” - T.M. Luhrmann, author of How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
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Visualizing Latinx

Arlene Dávila

“A much-needed study on the influence of Latinx artists in fashion, film and public art, Arlene Dávila’s book gives visibility to artists making crucial contributions to the broader visual culture and language of the US. Focused on how visual culture can impact social change, this volume is equally important for scholars of the field and for arts lovers.” - Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, co-editor of A Handbook of Latinx Art
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Notes from the Sex Worker Left

Heather Berg

“Notes from the Sex Worker Left traces a leading edge of radical theory. Beyond racial capitalism, beyond the state and beyond the family, sex workers are naming and pursuing the revolutionary horizon. This book is the thinking we all urgently need for our collective survival and liberation.” - M. E. O’Brien, author of Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
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Content Machines

Sarah Brouillette

“Brouillette’s legendary gift for laying out the painful truths of literary life in our time is abundantly evident in this important new book. Exploring an array of fascinating new phenomena arising at the intersection of platform capitalism, gendered labor, and storytelling, Content Machines is as engaging as it is bracing, and will make a lasting mark on contemporary criticism.” - Mark McGurl, author of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
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Miracle Road

Allen Paul, Mack Paul

“Few places have shaped how we think about cities, talent, and innovation as profoundly as Research Triangle Park, and no one has told its full story until now. In Miracle Road, Allen and Mack Paul show that RTP was never a one-shot miracle but a decades-long project: universities, business, government, and civic leaders building an innovation ecosystem that lifted a low-wage region into the front rank of the knowledge economy. They write with candor about the challenges that have followed that success—inequality, sprawl, and a research park built for an earlier world—and they pose an essential question for the future: how to transform RTP into a more genuine and connected place for the knowledge and creative age.” - Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class
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Marx for Cats

Leigh Claire La Berge

“Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere---it's a Marxist Choose Your Own Adventure---and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might leave you.” - Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox
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In the Wake

Christina Sharpe

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. Through her curatorial practice, Sharpe marshals the collective intellectual heft and aesthetic inheritance of the African diaspora to show us the world as it appears from her distinctive line of sight. A searing and brilliant work." - Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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Black Disability Politics

Sami Schalk

“Black disabled genius is crucial to the work of creating a free present and future. In Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk does so much absolutely brilliant Black queer disabled femme labor of surfacing buried Black disabled activist histories and organizing lessons. Her book is a Black queer disabled love offering, and reading it made me shout for joy and learn so much. I’m so grateful this book is in the world. Read it and give thanks that we get to share the world with the brilliance of Schalk and the organizers she writes about—then get to work putting into practice the lessons you’ve learned, so we can win.” - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
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Raving

McKenzie Wark

“Passionately exploring queer rave culture, Raving is the fantasy and the moment. There are drugs and sex, tangled love affairs, rejection, the highs and lows of the dance floors, and all the messiness that makes up a rave evening. A potent book.” - madison moore, author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric
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Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

“From the moment I received Sara Ahmed’s new work, Living a Feminist Life, I couldn’t put it down. It’s such a brilliant, witty, visionary new way to think about feminist theory. Everyone should read this book. It offers amazing new ways of knowing and talking about feminist theory and practice. And, it is also delightful, funny, and as the song says, ‘your love has lifted me higher.’ Ahmed lifts us higher.” - bell hooks
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Radical History Review

RHR Editorial Collective

For more than forty-five years, Radical History Review has stood at the point where rigorous historical scholarship and active political engagement converge.

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Ethnohistory

Denise I. Bossy, Robert C. Schwaller

Ethnohistory reflects the wide range of current scholarship inspired by anthropological and historical approaches to the human condition around the world, but with a particular emphasis on the Americas.

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Public Culture

Brian T. Edwards, Vyjayanthi Rao

Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year.
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Duke Mathematical Journal

Hubert L. Bray, Alexander Kiselev

Published since its inception in 1935 by Duke University Press, the Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's leading mathematical journals.
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Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Curtis Franks, Anand Pillay

The Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic publishes original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.
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Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Rui Loja Fernandes

Founded in 1957, the Illinois Journal of Mathematics (IJM) featured in its inaugural volume the papers of many of the world’s leading mathematicians.
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Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Osamu Fujino

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics publishes original research papers at the forefront of pure mathematics, including surveys that contribute to advances in pure mathematics.
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Environmentalism and Climate Change

Selections in this reading list explore environmentalism and climate change. Topics include climate change, environmental crisis, life in the Anthropocene, climate fiction, environmental racism, and environmental history.
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Global Migration

Migration is shaped by shifting political forces, environmental pressures, cultural ties, and deeply personal motivations. Selections in this reading list explore how systems of control, labor, security, race, gender, and climate intersect with lived experiences of movement across borders.
Critical Perspectives on AI in the Humanities

Critical Perspectives on AI in the Humanities

This reading list brings together a curated selection of journal issues, peer-reviewed articles, and scholarly books that examine the cultural, ethical, political, and intellectual dimensions of artificial intelligence. Spanning disciplines across the humanities, this collection highlights questions of power, labor, race, language, authorship, and knowledge production in an era shaped by algorithms.
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