Ainehi Edoro-Glines’ latest book explores the ways African writers play with (and in) the forest.

The author of ‘The People’s Paper: The Rise and Fall of the New York Daily News’ tells the tale of its fabled Art Deco temple

When the New York Daily News launched in 1919, it didn’t just sell papers—it reinvented them. Brash, populist, and impossible to ignore, the United State... | CUP

Nicholas Freudenberg, professor emeritus of public health at the City University of New York School of Public Health and the author of Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice…

The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

Pordenone Silent Film Festival | 3>10 ottobre 2026

Critic Erika Balsom leads a panel discussion featuring filmmakers from the NYFF64 Currents lineup considering the recent histories and possible futures of alternative filmmaking practices, and reflect...

Is it the end of reading or a brand-new era?

For Mixtape # 9 we asked a few of our colleagues what recent academic monographs were on their summer reading list. What insights are they taking into the new academic year? What should we put back…

To begin, a guessing game. The February 1967 issue of Cahiers du cinéma includes a “Dictionary of New French Cinema” comprising capsule commentaries on

When the New York Daily News launched in 1919, it didn’t just sell papers—it reinvented them. Brash, populist, and impossible to ignore, the United State... | CUP

For over 50 years, the Queens Historical Society has been actively preserving and celebrating the history and heritage of Queens, New York through exhibitions, events and education.

What does it mean to write a literature of the present? In the early twentieth century, Arabic and Hebrew writers faced a parallel predicament. Modern litera... | CUP

Finalist, 2026 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher EducationUrban theater took shape in postindependence India as a large and complex f... | CUP

Charles Burnett talks about My Brother's Wedding, his long-languishing follow-up to Killer Of Sheep, as it finds its way to the big screen.

When the New York Daily News launched in 1919, it didn’t just sell papers—it reinvented them. Brash, populist, and impossible to ignore, the United State... | CUP

Jack Kerouac has long been mythologized as an all-American figure: the “King of the Beats,” forever hitchhiking on the road, who gave voice to a postwar ... | CUP

Sentimental aesthetics have come to vex contemporary literature. The relation between feeling and acting is increasingly contested, and emotional entanglemen... | CUP

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Amazon.com: When Death Comes: Our Ultimate Transformation: 9780231202541: Thompson, Evan: Books

Published in American Journalism (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Is it the end of reading or a brand-new era?