In her new book, Cave of My Ancestors, Kirin Narayan offers a reflective exploration of family stories that reveal the rich history of a seventh-century
With the current war in Sudan unleashing even more violence and suffering in the West Darfur region, it’s more important than ever to bring attention
The Last Consolation Vanished is a unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. His extraordinary account, accompanied
In their new book, States of Plagues: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris examine Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life,
To celebrate the release of our exciting new translation of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s iconic work, La Pensée sauvage, we’re sharing a sneak peek at the translators’ intro.
Friends, we have your quarantine reading right here: The Safe House: A Novel by Christophe Boltanski and translated from the French by Laura Marris. In
Today is the first day of our seasonal Twitter book club #ReadUCP. For our first pick, we invite you to join us throughout July and
Feminist linguist Deborah Cameron’s new book isn’t out until May, but we’re giving you a sneak peek in celebration of Women’s History Month.