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  • The Anagonist

    This issue of Novel: A Forum on Fiction proposes a new type of novelistic hero: the “anagonist.” Unlike the protagonist, the anagonist generally does not act; and if she does, her action is inconsequential to the work.

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  • The Sense of Brown by José Esteban Muñoz

    "Read on their own and in tandem with Muñoz's earlier works, these thirteen essays written with care and a sense of urgency outlive his too-soon passing. Lovingly edited, they are a gift.” — Christina Sharpe

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Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black - New

Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black

R. A. Judy

" I love this book, I feel this book, I am pleased by this book because I am undone and disturbed and disrupted and transported by this book."—Fred Moten
The Academic′s Handbook, Fourth Edition: Revised and Expanded - New

The Academic′s Handbook, Fourth Edition: Revised and Expanded

Lori A. Flores and Jocelyn H. Olcott, editors

"With beautifully written, thoughtful, and quite moving selections, this revised and expanded edition of the classic Academic's Handbook is very relevant to contemporary academic life and will find a wide audience across the academy." —Paige West
Trans* Studies Now - New

Trans* Studies Now

Susan Stryker, issue editor

Contributors to this special issue discuss the field of trans studies during the first quarter of 2020, when TSQ's editorial leadership was changing and just before COVID-19 transformed our lives and work.
Bolivia in the Age of Gas - New

Bolivia in the Age of Gas

Bret Gustafson

"Bolivia in the Age of Gas is without a doubt the definitive account of the Bolivian petrostate and its subjects. It is also a true pleasure to read, the rare scholarly page-turner that conveys critical analytical insights in terms and ethnographic moments that will captivate readers of all backgrounds."—Dominic Boyer
Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade - New

Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade

Rosemary-Claire Collard

"This is a moving and beautifully written book and a major contribution to the fields of critical animal studies, political ecology, and biodiversity conservation."—Tony Weis
The Ideology Issue - New

The Ideology Issue

Andrew Cole, issue editor

Only one word is strong enough to describe the destructive and dehumanizing mandates of our capitalist society: ideology. This latest issue of South Atlantic Quarterly collects a diverse and representative set of authors who model the critique of ideology needed for today.
Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine - New

Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine

Abigail A. Dumes

"A must-read for scholars of American health and medicine and for anyone interested in the growing Lyme disease epidemic." —Marcia C. Inhorn
Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945 - New

Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945

Mark Bray, Jessica Namakkal, Giulia Riccò, and Eric Roubinek, issue editors

Contributors to this special issue of Radical History Review study histories of fascism and anti-fascism after 1945 to show how fascist ideology continues to circulate and be opposed transnationally despite its supposed death at the end of World War II.
Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System - New

Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System

Christopher Chitty, Edited by Max Fox

"A work ahead of its time, Sexual Hegemony makes an uncannily prescient and powerful intervention. Its importance and brilliance cannot be overstated."—Petrus Liu

Best Sellers

Necropolitics - Best Sellers

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

"This book establishes Achille Mbembe as the leading humanistic voice in the study of sovereignty, democracy, migration, and war in the contemporary world."—Arjun Appadurai
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i - Best Sellers

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

Hōkūlani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, editors

"This brilliant and beautiful collection—which features interviews, personal essays, collaborative pieces with community elders, family histories, and more—is a rich ethical project that offers so much for so many. Mahalo!"—J. Kehaulani Kauanui
Radical Care - Best Sellers

Radical Care

Hi′ilei Hobart and Tamara Kneese, editors

Situating discussions of care within a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and Black activism, contributors to this special issue consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence.
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
Queer Inhumanisms - Best Sellers

Queer Inhumanisms

Mel Y. Chen and Dana Luciano, issue editors

This issue features a group of leading theorists from multiple disciplines who decenter the human in queer theory, exploring what it means to treat “the human” as simply one of many elements in a queer critical assemblage.
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies - Best Sellers

The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

Tiffany Lethabo King

"King's concept of the shoal breaks new ground for thinking through the relationships between Indigenous peoples and African Americans and genocide and slavery as well as how they have formed our contemporary politics."— Mishauna Goeman
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

Featured Journals

Theater - Featured Journals

Theater

Tom Sellar, editor

Celebrating 50 years of publication, Theater has been the most informative, serious, and imaginative American journal available to readers interested in contemporary theater and performance.
Radical History Review - Featured Journals

Radical History Review

RHR Editorial Collective

Articles in RHR address issues of gender, race, sexuality, imperialism, and class, stretching the boundaries of historical analysis. Recent issues have reevaluated the role of policing in society.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Jonathan Oberlander, editor

Recent and forthcoming issues address the politics of the opioid epidemic, an appraisal of the ACA after 10 years, and a first look at responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Romanic Review - Featured Journals

Romanic Review

Elisabeth Ladenson, editor

Now published by Duke University Press, Romanic Review covers all periods of French, Italian, and Ibero-Romance languages and literature, and it welcomes a broad diversity of critical approaches.

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.

Syllabi

Elections in Global History Syllabus - Syllabi

Elections in Global History Syllabus

This syllabus features scholarship on historical elections. Topics include the study of past election events, voting inequity, election quotas, media politics, protests during election times, and more.
Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus - Syllabi

Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus

These articles, books, and journal issues tackle topics of political protest, resistance, and activism. Subjects include transnational social movements, spatial reclamation, student occupation, protest literature, and more.
Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that revisit queer studies topics, including decolonizing queerness, queerness and antinormativity, queer migration, and contemporary coming-out stories.
Labor and Precarity Syllabus - Syllabi

Labor and Precarity Syllabus

These books and articles consider the many faces of precarity around the world, including roles such as gig workers, warehouse workers, day laborers, and sanitation workers.
Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus - Syllabi

Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus

This syllabus explores the ways disasters affect us and how we emerge from them changed. These lessons might help us conceptualize potential shapes for a post-COVID-19 world.
Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus - Syllabi

Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus

As we collectively deal with the implications of a global pandemic, care and self-care have become ever more important. These books, issues, and articles investigate different ways that care can bind together individuals and communities where larger institutions or governments fail to intervene.
Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus - Syllabi

Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus

Amid the worldwide spread of COVID-19, it’s a challenging time, and our thoughts are with those affected by this disease. In support and solidarity, we present books and journal articles that help build knowledge and understanding of how we navigate the spread of communicable diseases.
Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus - Syllabi

Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus

This syllabus features books and journal articles about environmentalism and climate change. Topics include climate change, environmental crisis, climate fiction, and environmental racism.
Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus - Syllabi

Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that tackle feminist and women’s rights topics, including reproductive justice, women’s marches, and transnational feminism.
Global Immigration Syllabus - Syllabi

Global Immigration Syllabus

This syllabus focuses on areas of tension within and between nations over issues of immigration. It examines how sovereignty and humanitarianism intersect with cultural, ethnic, and economic issues.
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