With her new book, Lives of the Imaginary Artists in Cold War California, Monica Steinberg takes us into the world of artists who concealed or
The winter solstice may be behind us, but the Chicago region is still gripped by wintry gloom. We’re brightening our day with a few images
In Company Towns, Elizabeth Mitchell Elder examines the long-lasting political legacies of mining-company dominance in the Midwest and Appalachia. While the economic consequences of deindustrialization
Read on below for a conversation between CavanKerry Press authors Dorsía Smith Silva (In Inheritance of Drowning) and Cati Porter (The Body at a Loss)
Decoding the Hand is an astounding history of magic, medicine, and science, of an enduring search for how our bodily surfaces might reveal an inner
Atlas’s Bones is a major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe.
In his new book, eminent historian Joshua B. Freeman turns his attention to an overlooked feature of the American landscape: garden apartments. He details their
As we continue to celebrate the amazing writers, editors, and translators in our Phoenix Poets series, we’re delighted to highlight poet Cynthia Cruz, whose latest
Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long history of finding new ways to make the system work. In
In 2023, the University of Chicago Press Journals Division launched a new online feature called “From the Archives” to bring new readership to less recent
