Susan Stewart is a poet, scholar, and translator and the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, emerita, at Princeton Un...

You cannot pound a nail into the sky.

Recent books on fascism at home, revolution in Black bookstores, climate change in augmented reality, gentrification as metaphor, and more.

A new book makes the case for engaging with the anniversary on your own terms and taking your own meaning from it.

Julien Crockett discusses cognition and metaphors with George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan, authors of “The Neural Mind: How Brains Think,” in a new installment of the series The Rules We Live By.

Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso) The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War by Jesse McCarthy (University of Chicago)

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Homeward Bound The Odyssey enjoys a richly deserved prime spot in our literary canon.  Homer’s […]

The fourth installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, and activists share observations on practices of repair, preservation, and care.

“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench a...

In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.

The second installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, and activists share observations on practices of repair, preservation, and care.

More than 500 books from the University of Chicago Press and our client publishers.

Department Press Books Acquisitions About the Department Since its origins in 1890 as one of the three main divisions of the University of Chicago, the University of Chicago Press has embraced as its ...