April 8, 2025

Carlo Acevedo and Kelsi Vanada on Writing and Translating Day’s Fortune/Fortuna del día

Kelsi Vanada and Carlo Acevedo offer insight into the writing and translation process and the value this bilingual edition brings to U.S. Spanish speakers.

March 10, 2025

Illuminating The Running Flame

Fang Fang in Conversation with Michael Berry

More than twenty years after its initial publication in Chinese, The Running Flame is finally available in English translation. As the novel reaches a new group of readers, translator Michael Berry revisits the origins of the story with author Fang Fang, who in this interview, reflects on her work and the place of women in contemporary China.

February 25, 2025

Nicole M. Brown in Conversation with Daniel Davis About We Are Each Other’s Business

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Welfare Rights Movement organized at both local and national levels, advocating for poor people’s inclusion, dignity, and autonomy. In We Are Each Other’s Business: Black Women’s Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights...

February 18, 2025

Csaba Szabo in Conversation with Robyn Massey About Unreliable

All too often, issues encountered in today’s scientific publication process can profoundly shape research integrity. Reproducibility—the ability to replicate experimental findings—is essential to scientific methodology. Yet an alarming proportion of biomedical research papers struggle with independent verification. In Unreliable: Bias,...

February 13, 2025

Rob Lalka on How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power

Rob Lalka’s new book, The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power, reexamines the familiar stories of America’s most famous entrepreneurs, uncovering the profound societal impacts of their decisions—and the unseen trade-offs that shape our world. Today, the...

February 1, 2025

A Hypothetic Interview: When the Artist Considers Himself

James B. Haile III

The Dark Delight of Being Strange is an experimental work combining the elements of Black speculative fiction, Afro-surrealism, Black philosophy, and Black studies to think through the meaning and implications of Black freedom. Dark Delight invites us to imagine and...

January 28, 2025

Tessa Hill on At Every Depth

Beneath the waves and along the coasts of the world’s oceans, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. In At Every Depth, the oceanographer Tessa Hill and the science journalist Eric Simons bring...

January 22, 2025

Robert E. Kirsch and Emily Ray on Be Prepared

How does someone escape the solitary fate of life in the bunker to instead meet collective problems together with their community? In Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in the United States, coauthors Robert Kirsch and Emily Ray trace political and cultural...

January 20, 2025

Lauren Coyle Rosen and Hannibal Lokumbe on Music, Life, and Liberation

For Hannibal Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation. A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, Lokumbe composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom struggle of the African diaspora, the broader African American experience, Indigenous...

December 16, 2024

Mike Harmon on The Financial Restructuring Tool Set

Many companies globally are saddled with excessive levels of debt. This can lead to financial distress. In The Financial Restructuring Tool Set: How to Fix Your Broken Balance Sheet, Mike Harmon provides an indispensable guide tailored for executives, business owners,...

October 17, 2024

Claudia Leeb on Contesting the Far Right

In Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminate how economic and psychological factors interact to produce an extreme political shift to the far right. She examines...

October 10, 2024

Melissa Deckman on The Politics of Gen Z

Our nation’s youngest voters are increasingly spearheading progressive activism. In The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy, Melissa Deckman explores the world of youth-led progressive organizing, highlighting the crucial importance of gender and sexuality....