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Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading - New

Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading

Robert Christgau

"These sprightly, highly opinionated 'adventures of an autodidact' reveal Christgau to be a highly literate, astute, and discerning book critic." — Kirkus Reviews
The Cuba Reader, Second Edition - New

The Cuba Reader, Second Edition

Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo Prieto, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, Editors

"What The Cuba Reader does is provide incisive, intimate insight, not so much a road map as a vision of what has been and what could be. It's indispensable.” — Achy Obejas
Questioning the Super-Rich - New

Questioning the Super-Rich

Jennifer Smith Maguire and Paula Serafini, issue editors

This special issue uses the super-rich as a lens for exploring the impact of wealth and power on class mentalities, identities, and cultures.
Work: A Queer History of Modeling - New

Work: A Queer History of Modeling

Elspeth H. Brown

"This is no glib foray into celebrity culture, no superficial survey of supermodels. . . . A strikingly original, non-normative telling of 20th-century culture." — Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness - New

Black Madness :: Mad Blackness

Therí Alyce Pickens

“This book delivers on its promise. It opens disability studies and black studies to one another with generosity, humor, and the sharpest of wits."— Sharon Patricia Holland
Hydro-criticism - New

Hydro-criticism

Laura Winkiel, editor

Contributors interrogate the methods of humanities’ recent oceanic turn—grouped here under the rubric of “ocean studies”—by reimagining human histories, aesthetics, and ontologies as entangled with the temporal and spatial scales, geographies, and agencies of the ocean.
Interrogating

Interrogating "Diversity"

Damani J. Partridge and Matthew Chin, issue editors

This issue of Public Culture thinks through the effects of the transnational discourses and practices of “diversity” in local, nation-state-based, and global arenas.
The Chasers - New

The Chasers

Renato Rosaldo

"I love this book—the voices, the stories, and the corazón. Bravo. Felicidades. What a lovely trip Renato Rosaldo has made to the interior of the border and to that other interior, his own heart." — Sandra Cisneros

Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood - Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

James Baldwin

"A brilliant exploration of black childhood with profound emotional depth, drawn from the grace and struggles of community and reinforcing the truth that no one knows Harlem like Baldwin." —Kirkus
Living a Feminist Life - Best Sellers

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

"Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism. … Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist."—Bookforum
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Best Sellers

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J. Haraway

"Staying with the Trouble is Haraway at her most accessible. … This is a work to provoke and inspire. It is a call to arms (or pseudopods as the case may be)!" —Savage Minds
Stolen Life - Best Sellers

Stolen Life

Fred Moten

"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both." —Vulture
On Chantal Akerman - Best Sellers

On Chantal Akerman

Patricia White, issue editor

The milestone 100th issue of Camera Obscura recognizes the work and legacy of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, arguably the most important figure in feminist film culture.
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure - Best Sellers

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Eli Clare

"A dazzling work of intellectually rigorous and wildly original thinking that challenges our most deeply held beliefs about the nature of cure, exposing its place in the ideologies of domination."—Aurora Levins Morales
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Best Sellers

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

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. … A searing and brilliant work."—Saidiya Hartman
Global Black Consciousness - Best Sellers

Global Black Consciousness

Margo Natalie Crawford and Salah M. Hassan, issue editors

A critical and nuanced analysis of global black consciousness as both a citing of diasporic flows and a grounded site of decolonizing movement.

Featured Journals

Journal of Korean Studies - Featured Journals

Journal of Korean Studies

Theodore Hughes, editor

The Journal of Korean Studies is the preeminent journal in its field, publishing high-quality articles in all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences on a broad range of Korea-related topics, both historical and contemporary.
Archives of Asian Art - Featured Journals

Archives of Asian Art

Patricia Berger, editor

Since its establishment in 1945, Archives of Asian Art has been devoted to publishing new scholarship on the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia.
Hispanic American Historical Review - Featured Journals

Hispanic American Historical Review

Martha Few, Zachary Morgan, Matthew Restall, and Amara Solari, editors

Founded over 100 years ago, Hispanic American Historical Review pioneered the study of Latin American history and culture in the United States and remains the most widely respected journal in the field.
Labor - Featured Journals

Labor

Leon Fink

As a site for both historical research and commentary, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History provides an intellectual scaffolding for understanding the roots of continuing social dilemmas.

Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Steven Bradlow, editor

The Illinois Journal of Mathematics publishes new, peer-reviewed articles in all areas of mathematics research and has published works by many of the world's leading mathematicians.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Richard Hain and Jonathan Wahl, editors

Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's top ten mathematics journals, emphasizing the most active and influential areas of current mathematics.
Kyoto Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Koji Fujiwara and Atsushi Moriwaki, editors

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics has a long and distinguished history of publishing high-quality, original mathematics research papers and surveys at the forefront of pure mathematics.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic - Mathematics

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Michael Detlefsen and Anand Pillay, editors

Since 1960, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic has published original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.
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