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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · 5h

Attention translators and friends and lovers of translators! The 2026 Humanities in Translation (Hit!) Prize Competition is now open. Deadline Jan. 16.

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Funded by the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Northwestern University Press The

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 8h

If you've suddenly gained a new interest in Hungarian literature, we have a few recommendations for you.

Featuring
- Péter Esterházy
- Gyula Illyés
- Ferenc Barnás

#ReadUP #Translations

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats are in order! Contributor @cavar.bsky.social’s collection DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS is coming in March 2026 from @nupress.bsky.social 🎉 You can even preorder now! buff.ly/Yhe75j0

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 3d

Took my show on the road to York & Guelph last week, narrowly & unfortunately missing Guelph’s butter tart festival.

A hand holding the book Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form, with trees and a road in the background

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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 7d

We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

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Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP)

Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP)

Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press)

Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP)

Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP)

Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 7d

Head over to The Slowdown to listen to Maggie Smith read from the collection.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 7d

THE UNRELIABLE TREE, Margot Kahn's luminous collection weaving nature, family, and memory, is now here!

We couldn't imagine a more brilliant set of poems.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 9d

Libera has taught comedy at Second City and around the world for over two decades. Her students include luminaries like: Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Kristen Schall, Aidy Bryant, Steven Yeun, and more.

Out Oct 15. Preorders available now.

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Funnier - Northwestern University Press

A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director Great comedy can feel ineffable—and unlearnable. Debunking t...

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 9d

Whether professionally or at the pub, on stage or on screen, we could all use to be a little FUNNIER.

It is with the belief that even the most dour among us can craft great comedy that we're sharing Anne Libera's FUNNIER: A NEW THEORY FOR THE PRACTICE OF COMEDY.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 13d

Nataša Kovačević, Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs - @nupress.bsky.social Northwestern University Press, September 2025
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Nonaligned Imagination - Northwestern University Press

Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seekin...

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 11d

(58/61) “Witness, / if you can, listen: I slurped the frog-leg soup / gone bad. Held a brass spoon like a barrel / to my mouth.” —Vievee Francis, “Break Me and I’ll Sing” (The Shared World)
@nupress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

The cover of Vievee Francis’ The Shared World: a black-and-white photograph of a concerned-looking woman with dark hair holding a white cloth the neck and face of a dark-haired man whose white shirt has dark stains on it.

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 11d

Latest on my website: Bora Cosic's My Family’s Role in the World Revolution about a chaotic Serbian family struggling in WW2 shorturl.at/IsF4m trAnn C. Bigelow from @nupress.bsky.social

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 14d

It's an incredible look at the Chicago theater scene, at caregiver guilt and exhaustion, and, most importantly, at the power of choosing your own life.

Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 14d

If you haven't yet read the Chicago Reader's review of NO STARS IN JEFFERSON PARK by Maggie Andersen, immediately stop what you are doing and head to their site.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 20d

It's always exciting when people start talking about drama. (And theater. And performance studies.)

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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 22d

The hard copies are here! @nupress.bsky.social designed a gorgeous cover.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 22d

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 22d

This extraordinary book follows the hours of the clock to show twenty-four glimpses into how we experience time, our families, our planet, and all of those small moments that aren’t small at all.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 22d

Whether fennec or gray, happy National Fox Day!

Because it just makes sense, this week we're offering 40% off preorders for Catherine Pierce's FOXES FOR EVERYBODY with code FOXES on our website.

#NationalFoxDay #ReadUP

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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 24d

I am thrilled to announce that my book has been published! Thank you to @nupress.bsky.social and my incredible editor for her guidance and support. I hope to share my work with as many of you as possible! Enter code NUP2025 for a 25% discount at nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014884....

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 24d

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Travesty Actors - Northwestern University Press

Examining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates Talk of Joseph Stalin’s “show trials,” the public prosecutions in Moscow’s Hall...

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 24d

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Nonaligned Imagination - Northwestern University Press

Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seekin...

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 24d

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Intimate Inequalities - Northwestern University Press

Mobilizing performance to amplify migrant domestic workers’ creative expertise Intimate inequalities exist where the embodied and the everyday rub up ag...

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 24d

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Cinephilia and the Adventure for Existential Health - Northwestern University Press

Exploring how art cinema cultivates existential health through the films of Olivier Assayas This book proposes that cinephilia can facilitate existential he...

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 24d

A few new scholarly titles are out in the world today, from performance studies and philosophy to Yugoslavia and the cultural frontlines.

These brilliant books are a sight to behold.

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