The Falcon Experience - Northwestern University Press A joyful, educational flight from the halls of Chicago’s Field Museum to the nests of mighty peregrine falconsRosie the Tarantula, famous for her adventure...

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Featuring watercolors from Peggy Macnamara, Artist in Residence at the Field Museum, and written by Katie Macnamara, the book is the perfect memento for children (and adults!) of all ages.

Out May 15.

The falcons have landed!

THE FALCON EXPERIENCE takes readers on a journey through the Chicago Field Museum and beyond, teaching them about the habits, flights, and lives of peregrine falcons.

The spines of BRUJA, HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK, and EXCAVATION by Wendy C. Ortiz, in front of a shelf of books.

The books EXCAVATION, HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK, and BRUJA by Wendy C. Ortiz on a wood table.

It’s been a rough <insert any amount of time up to 6+ years ago> and I forgot that this week my reprinted books are now 1 year old. Thanks to @nupress.bsky.social for giving them new lives! Please get a copy or all three 💚💚💚

Exclusive Cover Reveal of "Blow Yourself Up" by Ankur Thakkar - Electric Literature An obscured, staticky figure conveys a growing tension between digital and analog life

Head over to Electric Lit to see the cover reveal of Ankur Thakkar's novel BLOW YOURSELF UP.

This is a story of love in the time of infinite scroll and a look at what we sacrifice to be seen.

Out September 2026.

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Happy Publication Day to THAT MAY NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK and happy rerelease to WHEN THE MESSENGER IS HOT by Elizabeth Crane!

A visionary and profound new collection from innovative author Elizabeth Crane is out today from @nupress.bsky.social.

You may have seen Gregor Moder's ANTIGONE AS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY in The Paris Review. Now it's here in the flesh!

This analysis shows that sometimes the only way through deep social contradictions is in unraveling the framework that constructed them.

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The Barbara Johnson Collective - Northwestern University Press Collaboratively reassesses Barbara Johnson’s legacy as a reader and thinker with an eye to contemporary conditionsAcross an archive of essays on abortion a...

if you want to preorder this bad boy & set some of its very, very good essays on your fall syllabi, you can use NUP2026 to get 25% off —and I bet some of us would love to Zoom into your classes to talk?! 💗

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Hugely popular in its day, The Wanderer is a remarkable tale that depicts the extraordinary places and peoples that met along the fault lines of once-great empires.

📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
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Dearth - Northwestern University Press Proposing new insight into the legacies of Derridean thought for contemporary philosophyIn Art and Dwelling, the second volume of his Dearth sequence, Philip...

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Dearth - Northwestern University Press Proposing a radical reconceptualization of deconstruction and nothingness   The first of two volumes exploring Jacques Derrida’s prefiguration of speculat...

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Have you considered DEARTH? We have.

Philippe Lynes's DEARTH diptych "provides a compendious and incisive account of the current state of play of philosophy in order to articulate a poetics and theory worthy of the twenty-first century."
—Claire Colebrook, Monash University

“The concept of personifying a slow burn deeply resonated with who I thought myself to be—a slow burn, love flickering around me.” Read the featured #Chapbook #Poem of the Month, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
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Slavic Colloquium: Nataša Kovačević - Imagining Decolonization through Nonalignment: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South

If you are in the Bay Area, come to my lecture at Stanford University's Slavic Colloquium on April 8, 4.30-6pm! @nupress.bsky.social

We're just a few weeks out from Elizabeth Crane's (funny, subversive, inventive) new collection THAT MAY NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK!

April 15, 2026.

(And yes, we ARE also rereleasing WHEN THE MESSENGER IS HOT with a new foreword by the inimitable Lisa Lucas.)

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The world may be a stage, but the stage is what helps us understand the world. On World Theatre Day, we're taking the time to reflect on the ways that performance and drama allow us to engage with, understand, and transcend the experience of being human.

Use code STAGE at checkout now through March 29 to get 40% off our plays, theatre & performance studies works, and more.

Book cover: THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE, edited by Devin M. Garofalo & Nathan K. Hensley — in black font, against a Barbie pink background, design inspired by 80s literary theory book series.

Promotional flyer for THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE. Includes image of cover, description of book, editor bios, and brief promotional blurb by Heather K. Love: “This book makes clear why language, thought, and writing matter, now more than ever.” Discount code: NUP2026. All information included in the flyer, plus more, can be found at the linked website.

THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE has a cover, a website, and is available for preorder! (Use code NUP2026 for a discount.) See the full contents at the link below — lucky to be part of this extraordinary project and excited to see it in print this fall! ✨🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948066...

Episode 231 ft. Wendy C. Ortiz Wendy C. Ortiz joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the English teacher who preyed on her when she was thirteen, writing about the person we are now when writing about our past, placing th...

I spoke with host @ronitplank.bsky.social on the Let’s Talk Memoir podcast about writing (and rereading) my book Excavation prior to its reprint by @nupress.bsky.social in 2025
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John Drabinski on Atlantic Theory, So Unimaginable a Price & At the Margins of Nihilism Podcast Episode · Conversations in Atlantic Theory · March 24 · 1h 2m

A collaboration podcast with Conversations in Atlantic Theory, out today! John E. Drabinski discusses his three new books ... Atlantic Theory (Edinburgh), So Unimaginable a Price (Northwestern), and At the Margins of Nihilism (Fordham). Here and at most streams:

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Yugoslav cultural diplomacy and the Global South - CEU Review of Books In Nonaligned Imagination (Northwestern University Press, 2025), Nataša Kovačević examines transnational encounters and the networks that emerged among Yugoslav writers, academics, literary critics, a...

In Nonaligned Imagination (@nupress.bsky.social, 2025), Nataša Kovačević examines transnational encounters and networks among Yugoslav intellectuals, diplomats and their counterparts across the Global South.

@rekakrizmanics.bsky.social reviews the book.

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The Inherent Poetry of Horror, or Horror in the Poetic by Cavar | Northwestern University Press In times of crisis, I find myself turning to strangeness, opacity, unsettledness; we are always in crisis, and so I am always unsettled. I have always

Writing with horror poetics for @nupress.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of Differential Diagnosis!!

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MUD IN OUR MOUTHS (cover art of large image of a black-and-white artwork by Valerie Hammond, a collage of an owl with a moth head sitting on a branch) sits on a bookshelf beside E.M. Forster and Patricia Highsmith

Happy one-year birthday to MUD IN OUR MOUTHS @nupress.bsky.social! Grateful to everyone who bought it, requested it from the library, invited me to read from it, told a friend about it—supported it in any way. I feel very lucky that I get to make books that people read. What a dream. What a gift.

Micheal O'Siadhail has defined Irish poetry for half a century. We can't wait to share THE ESSENTIAL POEMS with you.

This book, which includes poems from throughout his outstanding career, showcases O'Siadhail's masterful body of work.

Out May 15, 2026.

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3/24, 7pm - Toronto, CAN Another Story Bookshop w/ Twoey Gray 4/10, 6pm - Columbia, SC Queer Haven Books w/ Evelyn Berry 4/21, 6:30pm - Amherst, MA Amherst Books w/ Niamh Timmons 5/23, 6pm - Minneapolis, MN Boneshaker Books w/ Danez Smith

catch me in these places reading + talking DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS @nupress.bsky.social !!! plain text in alt ofc. can't wait to see you all in Toronto, Columbia SC, Amherst MA, and Minneapolis!!!

if you're not going to be there and want a signed bookplate, dm me your address and i'll send you one!

Forms of Mobility - Northwestern University Press Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africa’s changing literary terrains Stephanie B...

Congratulations to Stephanie Bosch Santana, one of our Dissertation-to-Book alums, who just received the ACLA's 2026 Harry Levin Prize for an outstanding first book!

Her book is "Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures" (@nupress.bsky.social) and it's stunning!

Storms may have come to Chicago yesterday, but so did something even more exciting—copies of Raghav Rao's absorbing and secret-filled novel MISSY!

Order your copy before it officially publishes next week.

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"Undoing traditional psychiatric narratives in this innovative and bold first collection.'" Contributor @cavar.bsky.social’s collection DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS is available from @nupress.bsky.social! Get your copy here 💖 buff.ly/843NNTG

The Lemon Grove - Northwestern University Press Identical twins Ruzbeh and Behruz are at the center of Ali Hosseini’s debut novel in English--a story about love, redemption, and the courage to survive in...

"Pulses with vibrancy and genuine emotion…his deft deployment of details imbues this short novel with an enthralling sense of character, time, and place." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

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