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Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women - New

Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women

E. Patrick Johnson

"I've never read an oral history as powerful as Honeypot.” — Alexis De Veaux
Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores - New

Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores

Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey

“This is a compelling history of the near-future. . . . Read it as a reminder that we must act now to keep things from getting worse than they must.” — Bill McKibben
Trans∗⁄Religion - New

Trans∗⁄Religion

Max Strassfeld and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, issue editors

This issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly stages a long-overdue conversation between trans studies and religious studies.
A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art - New

A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art

Saloni Mathur

"Mathur offers a striking model of engaged critical practice in a project that is far from finished." — W. J. T. Mitchell
A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times - New

A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times

Anand Pandian

"Anand Pandian's captivating book is a stirring brief for ethnography as a method for exploring that which is and may yet be possible." — Stefan Helmreich
Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem - New

Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem

Benjamin Piekut

"A fascinating and pacey read, stitched together painstakingly from over 90 original interviews and both public and private texts including Hodgkinson's extensive diaries. The combination of narrative background, musical analysis and critical insight should open the door for a new generation of listeners." — Phil England, The Wire
Violence and Policing - New

Violence and Policing

Shamus Khan and Madiha Tahir, issue editors

Contributors to this Public Culture issue examine the discourse and practices of policing, identifying parallels between police and military power and providing insights into how policing transforms societal relationships.
The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery - New

The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery

Gwen Bergner and Zita Nunes, issue editors

This American Literature issue interrogates the plantation as a form, logic, and technology that continues to produce inequalities.

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
Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healing - Best Sellers

Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healing

Rebecca Dufendach, issue editor

Contributors to this Ethnohistory issue address how Mesoamericans experienced bodily health in the wake of the 16th-century encounter with Europeans.
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
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.

Featured Journals

Theater - Featured Journals

Theater

Tom Sellar, editor

For almost fifty years Theater has been the most informative, serious, and imaginative American journal available to readers interested in contemporary theater and performance.
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies - Featured Journals

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

Soha Bayoumi, Sherine Hafez, and Ellen McLarney, editors

This interdisciplinary journal advances the fields of Middle East gender, sexuality, and women's studies through the contributions of academics, artists, and activists from around the globe.
Prism - Featured Journals

Prism

Zong-qi Cai and Yunte Huang, editors in chief

Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature presents cutting-edge research on modern literary production, dissemination, and reception in China and beyond.
Critical Times - Featured Journals

Critical Times

Samera Esmeir, editor

Published by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, Critical Times is an open-access online journal seeking to present the multiple forms that critical thought takes today.

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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