Northwestern University Press
Blow Yourself Up A Novel
Ankur Thakkar
A story of first love across cities spanning the decade that transformed the internet
In the halls of an elite East Coast high school, Arjun and Payal fall in love as the world begins to tilt toward the digital. Over the next eight years, their trajectories diverge as sharply as the fractured internet itself. Payal ascends to the dizzying, dopamine-fueled heights of New York’s influencer economy, finding fame on Boost, a looping video app that is as rewarding as it is demanding. Meanwhile, in a cavernous office in Chicago, Arjun, a musician whose dreams have quieted, now cleans up the same platform’s debris, moderating the internet’s darkest videos. When a brutal act of political violence against a beloved musician goes viral, this rip in reality forces the pair to confront the motivations of the platforms they inhabit. A sharp exploration of creative ambition and the multifarious nature of identity, this is a story of love in the time of infinite scroll and a look at what we sacrifice to be seen.
ANKUR THAKKAR is a writer and multimedia artist whose stories have appeared in Guernica, PANK, and TriQuarterly, and his essay “Swipe” was selected by Medium as one of the best pieces of writing about the internet. He was a 2025 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar and is a content designer at YouTube, as well as a practicing artist with recent exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and La Friche la Belle de Mai. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
SEPTEMBER
240 PAGES, 5.25 × 8 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-064-5 $26.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-065-2 $26.00
Liberal Arts A Novel
David McGlynn
A kaleidoscopic novel-in-stories set at a fictional Midwest college
Two centuries old and covered in ivy, Wisconsin’s Buchanan College is populated by an eclectic mix of students, staff, and professors hailing from the nearby suburbs to the far corners of the globe. From the outside, Buchanan seems an idyllic world of higher learning. Yet behind its bucolic exterior, a series of interconnected dramas play out: a slew of first-year students mysteriously disappear within days of moving in; an injured hockey star discovers an unlikely fountain of youth; an alumna returns to campus after fifty years in the hope of reconnecting with a former love. And throughout the novel we follow the story of Jenny Ramirez, a social worker and the wife of a popular professor, who commits an act that alters how the college sees her and how she sees herself. Over a span of four years, from orientation to graduation, the characters in Liberal Arts are forced to weigh their ideals and aspirations against the harsh and often ridiculous realities of the world and must ask what, if anything, a liberal arts education has left to teach them.
DAVID MCGLYNN is the author of the novel
Everything We Could Do, also from TriQuarterly Books, the story collection The End of the Straight and Narrow, and the memoirs A Door in the Ocean and One Day You’ll Thank Me. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The American Scholar and has been reviewed on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air. He teaches at Lawrence University and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
OCTOBER
288 PAGES, 5.25 × 8 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-082-9 $28.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-083-6 $28.00
Hafa Adai
A Novel
E. E. Hussey
A tale of two sisters braving the current of global tremors, mysterious beings, and their own past
Amihan is a respected and talented wildlife researcher on a small Pacific island in the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, where the land has undergone centuries of occupation. Offshore military testing, shifting climates, and tourists threaten the local ecosystem, making Amihan’s job harder than ever. As she braves knotty forests and watery caves in search of the elusive rufous fantail, her expedition takes her to the suicide cliffs . . . and over them. Amihan plummets into another realm, a purgatory of colonial violence and Filipino folklore.
Ligaya, Amihan’s sister, is back in Osaka and in between research positions when she is called to the island to search for her itinerant and reclusive sister. But when her search uncovers a stowaway, Ligaya's path takes an unexpected turn. Traveling along with her is a ghost with an omikuji tongue—a ghost that delights in spitting fortunes and mining memories. As Ligaya searches and Amihan wanders, it becomes clear that there is more to confront between these sisters than their whereabouts. On an island shuddering under the weight of global crises, can Ligaya make it to Amihan, or has her sister wandered too far?
E. E. HUSSEY is a Philippine-born writer whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, PANK, and elsewhere. She lives in North Carolina, where she is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
JANUARY
200 PAGES, 5.25 × 8 INCHES WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-88948-113-0 $26.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-115-4 $26.00
Let the Soil Rest A
Novel
Amy Fladeboe
Reaching across miles and memory to deconstruct the American dream in the Midwest Rust Belt
Arjan, a teen refugee from postcommunist Albania, and Jess, a Midwestern high schooler, strike up an unlikely friendship working a seasonal job on a farm in Michigan. Now in their thirties, the two have taken different paths—he chasing the American dream with a running rotation of day-labor gigs, and she living on the road and off the grid, trying to escape the very same ideal. When Jess lands in Hamtramck, just a few miles from her suburban Detroit upbringing after years wandering, they find themselves trudging the same unplowed sidewalks, spinning loads at the same laundromat, and picking the same jukebox songs at the local dive. Both are haunted by the ghosts of childhood traumas, a chorus of the collective unconscious that takes us from the Albanian coast to the Rust Belt heartland. So near one another and yet so far apart, they must reach across miles and memories to discover that the most important voice in our heads is our own.
AMY FLADEBOE is chair of the English Department at Century College, where she directs the creative writing program, serves as faculty advisor for the Red Pine Review, and curates literary arts programming and mentorship for emerging writers across the Minnesota State system of colleges and universities. She also teaches in the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
FEBRUARY
248 PAGES, 5.25 × 8 INCHES
NAM, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-128-4 $26.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-129-1 $26.00
The Light and the Dark
(The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi)
A play by Kate
Hamill
Introduction by Kristin Leahey
A play from the inimitable Kate Hamill, based on the true story of the groundbreaking Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi
During the seventeenth century, Italian artists strove to reshape the very image of humanity. Artemisia Gentileschi—the daughter of a painter—dreams of making her mark at a time when a woman is not thought capable of being an artist, let alone one of the greats. Just as her career begins to gain unexpected momentum, a series of devastating betrayals crack the foundation of her work—and her life. In electrifying verse and gorgeous artwork, The Light and the Dark depicts the deeply moving true story of a young woman who changed the very image of women in society, weaving a magnetic and empowering tapestry of ambition, rage, and resilience across the ages.
KATE HAMILL is an actor and one of the most-produced playwrights in the United States. Named the 2017 Playwright of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, she has been produced in all fifty states, as well as internationally. Her accolades include Drama League, Helen Hayes, and Elliot Norton Award nominations, the Einhorn Mentorship Award, and Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. Her other plays include Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Vanity Fair, Little Women, The Scarlet Letter, The Janes, The Aristocrats, The Piper, and The Odyssey.
KRISTIN LEAHEY is an assistant professor at Boston University. She has dramaturged and produced with theaters across the United States and internationally. Some of her publications include articles in Theatre Topics, Journal of American Drama, and the Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance. She is the recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Specialist Award and has been a member of the Woolly Mammoth, Seattle Rep, and WP Theatre artistic teams.
SEPTEMBER
168 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD
11 COLOR IMAGES
PAPER 979-8-89948-111-6 $22.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-112-3 $22.00
Lamp Back Plays and Other Grievances
Anthony Hudson
Edited and with an introduction by Kate Bredeson
A major collection of performance works by artist and agitator Anthony Hudson
Lamp Back: Plays and Other Grievances collects nearly a decade of work by Anthony Hudson, a queer Indigenous artist and agitator also known as Portland’s premier drag clown, Carla Rossi. Whether fumbling with a lamp in a satirical takedown of land acknowledgments or confronting the history of redface in pop culture, Hudson alternates between Rossi’s cackling “ghost of white privilege” and more earnest, vulnerable confessionals as himself—all with a deep commitment to bitter humor and brutal honesty. In these performance works, a mixed-race Native boy plays a pilgrim in his kindergarten Thanksgiving pageant. A young artist recounts the racism in their favorite musical and the larger American theater system. A drag queen storytime goes disastrously wrong and calls for an exorcism with a plunger. Kate Bredeson’s unflinching introduction speaks to Hudson’s work through a cultural and historical lens and illuminates the importance of his project to filet the American Empire.
ANTHONY HUDSON is a Grand Ronde / Siletz artist and writer. Hudson’s plays, videos, essays, and exhibitions— and performances as Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi—have earned him national fellowships, international engagements, and sainthood from the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
KATE BREDESON is a theater historian, translator, director, and dramaturg. She is the author of Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May ’68, the editor of The Diaries of Judith Malina, and the cotranslator of the play The Inheritor (all Northwestern University Press) She is a professor of theater at Reed College.
OCTOBER
160 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
6 COLOR IMAGES
PAPER 979-8-89948-069-0(X) $26.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-070-6(X) $26.00
The Book of Mating Stories
Laksmi Pamuntjak
Translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker
Winner of the Humanities in Translation Prize
The Book of Mating is a masterfully translated collection of stories in which Indonesian women explore the full spectrum of mating: marital, sexual, and spiritual; forced and free; transcendent, ruinous, and mundane. Laksmi Pamuntjak portrays both the constraints and the opportunities facing women caught between the enduring restrictions of local norms and hierarchies and the tantalizing promises of globalized modern life, between internalized myths and social realities.
An experimental melding of Pamuntjak’s creative, journalistic, and activist work, these stories read as urgent dispatches from the Indonesian archipelago and diaspora—and as universal narratives of women’s lived experiences. Annie Tucker’s nuanced translation takes us from the prison island of Buru and the Bogor Botanical Gardens to Paris’s Left Bank, offering a polyphonic testament to the fight for women’s autonomy over their bodies and their lives.
LAKSMI PAMUNTJAK is a bilingual Indonesian novelist, poet, journalist, and culinary critic. Her debut novel, Amba (The Question of Red), was praised by The Economist and won Germany’s LiBeraturpreis, and her novel Fall Baby won the Singapore Book Award for Best Literary Work.
ANNIE TUCKER is an award-winning writer and translator.
DECEMBER
264 PAGES, 5 × 8 INCHES
WORLD EXC. SOUTH ASIA & OCEANIA, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-104-8 $28.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-106-2 $28.00
Anton A Novel
Aleksandr Chudakov
Translated from the Russian by
Timothy D. Sergay
A landmark work of contemporary Russian literature, now in English for the first time
Set in a fictitious town in North Kazakhstan settled by political and ethnic exiles, this panoramic narrative follows the relationship between the titular character, Anton, a Moscow historian of the vital “1960s generation,” and his grandfather, Leonid, a titan of physical and intellectual rigor who is now on the verge of death. As Anton contemplates the fading away of that once-powerful vitality, he lets his thoughts plunge deep into the past, presented in a series of fine-grained sketches, scattered reminiscences, and subtly interconnected episodes, back and forth from childhood to the present day. The resulting novel is a “Soviet family Robinson”: the history of rugged and free-thinking intellectuals eking out a tolerable, even enviable homestead existence despite the difficulties of the Stalin years. One of the freest and most vibrant works of literary fiction created since the fall of the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Chudakov’s Anton affirms the abiding significance of the simple yet elusive values of family and ancestral tradition, labor and culture, and mercy and responsibility.
ALEKSANDR CHUDAKOV (1938–2005) was an internationally renowned scholar of Russian literature. He taught at the Institute of World Literature and Moscow State University, as well as universities in Germany, the United States, and South Korea. Anton, his only novel, was awarded a special Russian Booker Prize for Best Russian Novel of the 2000s.
TIMOTHY D. SERGAY is a translator and emeritus associate professor of Russian at the University at Albany.
OCTOBER
728 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-015-7(X) $40.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-016-4(X) $40.00
Vega’s Fugitive Poems
Marina Tsvetaeva
Translated from the Russian by
Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
An incandescent new collection in translation of the virtuosic Russian poet
Marina Tsvetaeva needs no introduction—a poetic genius, she is one of the most gifted and original poets in the Russian literary canon. All the verse genres Tsvetaeva employed, including lyric poems, poetic cycles, and long narrative poems, are represented here, in Vega’s Fugitive, translated by award-winning translator and Tsvetaeva scholar Alyssa Dinega Gillespie. Tsvetaeva’s poems, some never-before translated, appear in potent English versions that are both highly faithful to the originals and lyrical in their own right. As a result, Tsvetaeva’s verse—with its driving rhythms, striking sound plays, and searing insights—is reborn in a new language and with new constellations of meaning. These poems dive fearlessly into themes of place, time, and distance; the female body; the poet’s fate; desire and longing; grief, loss, and immortality. Vega’s Fugitive makes Tsvetaeva’s masterful work not just accessible but unforgettable for English-language readers around the world.
MARINA TSVETAEVA (1892–1941) was a Russian poet who lived through the turbulent years of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. Despite exile and hardship, she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces; she is considered one of the most brilliant Russian poets of the twentieth century. Her early poetry collection Milestones was published in 2002 by Northwestern University Press in a translation by Robin Kemball.
ALYSSA DINEGA GILLESPIE is the author and editor of numerous scholarly books and articles on Russian and East European literature and a prize-winning translator of Russian and Ukrainian poetry and fiction, as well as a poet herself.
OCTOBER
320 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-087-4(X) $34.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-088-1(X) $34.00
Underneath the Palm Trees Essays
Eva Recinos
A raw and captivating exploration of what it means to live in the in-betweens of the American dream
Arts and culture writer Eva Recinos came of age in the towering city of Los Angeles, fed the story of the American dream. A daughter of immigrants, Recinos grew up facing the dichotomy of that dream: experiencing what it was like to live in South Central LA right next door to one of the wealthiest private universities in America—which Recinos herself would eventually attend. Navigating depression, anxiety, grief, sexuality, and the pressures of being a firstgeneration daughter and student, Underneath the Palm Trees examines the dissonant effects of straddling two disparate worlds. Recinos’s is an emerging and powerful Latinx voice that uses this engaging collection of essays to capture America’s idiosyncrasies, the complexities of girlhood, and how we find ourselves in art.
EVA RECINOS is a Los Angeles–based arts and culture journalist and creative nonfiction writer. She was a 2025 Rabkin Prize winner, a finalist in the Blood Orange Review’s 2020 Creative Nonfiction Contest, and a 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship finalist. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and Poets & Writers.
JANUARY
200 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
NAM, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-102-4 $22.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-103-1 $22.00
The Flowers Along the Way A Memoir
Claudia Castro Luna
Passionately demonstrating the dormant trauma of political violence and the redemption
From El Salvador’s lush countryside to the streets of Oakland, California, a young mother wrestles with the intersecting forces of memory, history, and language in order to chart a new path for herself and her growing family. Fleeing political unrest and civil war violence in El Salvador, fourteen-year-old Claudia Castro Luna arrived in the United States with her family in 1981. Two decades later, holding her twoyear-old and pregnant with her second child, she survives a public shooting by hiding behind shrubs in front of her house in Oakland. This event unleashes disorienting and traumatic memories, plunging her into a journey of discovery as she grapples with PTSD, recovers family stories, and begins to make sense of all that was torn asunder within her by the experiences of war and emigration. Beauty, longing, fear, and joy entwine in this powerful story of love, self-determination, and the search for home.
CLAUDIA CASTRO LUNA is a 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, a former Washington State Poet Laureate, and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Green, the World; Cipota Under the Moon; Killing Marías; One River, a Thousand Voices; and This City, a chapbook. Her nonfiction has appeared in anthologies, journals, and newspapers. Born in El Salvador, Castro Luna lives and dreams in English and Spanish.
SEPTEMBER
248 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-092-8 $28.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-093-5 $28.00
Miracle Fever Poems
Mark Anthony Cayanan
Poetically delving into the spectacle and incredulity of a real-life religious controversy
In the early 1990s, a small town in the Philippines became the epicenter of religious controversy when a teenager claimed to be visited by the Virgin Mary. News of these visions, broadcast over national media, would prompt over a million to flock to the town, hoping to catch a glimpse of the teenager and witness inexplicable events: a statue of the Virgin weeping blood, the sun dancing and throbbing into various fantastic colors, or a bevy of doves appearing overhead during Mass.
Miracle Fever, chronicling the life of this town, is a poetry sequence revolving around these apparitions. Documentary in its scrutiny and distortion of real-life events, novelistic in its plot trajectory, and lyric in its imagistic intensity, Miracle Fever offers a fabulist model of reality built through poems delivered in the form of dramaticules, timelines, and photo captions. These fugitive presences, bearing out and unsettling the complex ethics of representation that the sequence cleaves to, foreground the element of spectacle surrounding the apparitions and bring new light to the ever-shifting antecedents bound by shared history.
MARK ANTHONY CAYANAN is based out of Angeles City, Philippines. An associate professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, they are the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from ICI Berlin and writing residencies from Civitella, Art Omi, and Saari, among others. Miracle Fever is their fourth book of poetry.
NOVEMBER
120 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD exc. PHILIPPINES, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-080-5 $20.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-081-2 $20.00
Repair Attempts
Poems
Cameron Quan
A poetic reckoning with personal, political, and historical wounds
The titular “repair attempts” describes the words and actions people use to heal broken connections and deescalate conflict. In his debut collection, Cameron Quan transforms this concept into a powerful lens for examining moral responsibility in contemporary America. Quan’s Repair Attempts navigates Asian American identity, American exceptionalism, patriarchal violence, grief, and the nature of apologies. The speakers grapple with transgression and healing from unexpected angles, asking what kind of repair is possible in a world marred by atrocities. These poems dance across landscapes—from an imagined American holiday of atonement to the pope’s apology to Indigenous peoples, from a mother preparing to flee domestic violence to an unsettling childhood game boys play with butterflies. A chorus of repair attempts that toggle between the personal and political, this collection invites us into difficult territory where failure, wrongdoing, and shame require a collective reckoning and a collective effort to be better.
CAMERON QUAN is a writer and visual artist from Tucson, Arizona. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fourth Genre, and other publications. His chapbook, Apology Engine, won the Gold Line Press poetry chapbook competition in 2020.
JANUARY
112 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-107-9 $18.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-108-6 $18.00
NAKED
Poems
David Barber
A moving and sonically stunning exploration into the body and soul
David Barber’s masterful new book, NAKED, is powered by prolific feats of verbal prowess. With formal dexterity, nerve, and ingenious wordplay, these poems grapple with the serious business of soulmaking. In a spacious collection that enacts changes on the touch-and-go of innocence and experience, these poems are rife with inklings and reckonings in the name of muscle memory and mortal longing. Here, Hollywood meets Babylon in the Garden of Earthly Delights; Odysseus opts for a username; the naked eye goes toe-to-toe with the naked truth; American sonnets & ampersands run wild. NAKED is an all-out lovers’ quarrel over the give-and-take of the spirit and flesh—and Barber is all in.
DAVID BARBER is the author of three previous collections from Northwestern University Press, most recently Secret History (2019). He has taught writing and poetry at Harvard University, Middlebury College, MIT, and elsewhere. He is a native Californian and transplanted New Englander currently living with his family near Boston.
DECEMBER
152 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-100-0 $24.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-101-7 $24.00
Run in Such a Way Poems
Justin Danzy
A poet’s candid and probing exploration of faith, Blackness, and masculinity
With poems that closely examine familial bonds and heritage, biblical teachings, a shifting understanding of home, and the violence of toxic masculinity, Justin Danzy’s Run in Such a Way sits at the crossroads of religion, race, and gender. A collection about pursuit, tracking the narrative of its speaker’s journey toward a deeper understanding of himself and of his community as he moves from child to man, the book wrestles with the way an identity is constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed again throughout one’s life. Playful and sincere in equal measure, Danzy’s command of the line carries us through as we travel with the speaker to the precipice of belief. His lyrical voice and fealty to his people pay homage to the world that made him, and consider all that the speaker of this tremendous debut has—both wisely and foolishly—run toward and away from in the search for truth.
JUSTIN DANZY’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Pleiades, Obsidian, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Frost Place, Danzy is originally from Southfield, Michigan, and currently lives in St. Louis.
FEBRUARY
120 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-109-3 $18.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-110-9 $18.00
The Actor’s Revolution
Art and Politics at the Moscow Kamerny Theatre
Dassia N. Posner
Reclaims the lost history of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative theaters
The Moscow Kamerny Theatre created stage worlds of movement, color, and light. Cofounded in 1914 by Alexander Tairov, a Jewish director from Ukraine, and Alisa Koonen, a Moscow-born actress from an immigrant family, the company celebrated the actor’s virtuosic inventiveness during an era when most theaters imitated daily life or prioritized the autocratic director’s vision. By the 1920s, it had become the most famous Soviet theater in the world, renowned for its actors’ acrobatic grace, its bold collaborations with avant-garde artists, and its revolutionary redefinition of what theater can be. But the accusations of Soviet disloyalty that were used to destroy the Kamerny during Stalin’s post–World War II antisemitic purge have rendered it little known outside Russia today and frequently misunderstood even there.
The Actor’s Revolution vividly reclaims this lost history by reconstructing the theater’s most illustrious premieres, analyzing them within the turbulent artistic and political context of the early Soviet era. Drawing on a decade of archival research, Dassia N. Posner restores Tairov’s legacy as one of history’s most significant directors and celebrates Koonen’s liberatory physical expressiveness as a vital alternative to Konstantin Stanislavsky’s better-known acting system. Drawing on rich archival sources, from unpublished memoirs to vibrant scenic and costume designs, this timely volume grapples with the entangled histories of art, politics, and erasure and celebrates the radical power of human creativity under—and in spite of—totalitarianism.
DASSIA N. POSNER is an associate professor in the Departments of Theatre and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University.
OCTOBER
424 PAGES, 7 × 10 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
50 BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES, 37 COLOR IMAGES
PAPER 979-8-89948-116-1(S) $40.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-117-8(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-118-5(S) $40.00
The Barbara Johnson Collective
Edited by Devin M. Garofalo and Nathan K. Hensley
Collaboratively reassesses Barbara Johnson’s legacy as a reader and thinker with an eye to contemporary conditions
Across an archive of essays on abortion and race, Mallarmé and Melville, feminist philosophy, rhetorical device, and pedagogical method, Barbara Johnson built a legacy of thought whose energies reverberate into the present. This collected volume gathers writers and critics from a range of North American higher educational settings to engage with this essential but still often underappreciated critic in a time of renewed and deepening crisis.
In Zoom meetings and shared essays, across a virtualized map of today’s academic and para-academic worlds, the group assessed how the rolling catastrophes of late neoliberalism continue to stage the sort of analogy Johnson herself would highlight between patriarchy, capitalism, ecocide, and other forms of structural violence. Emerging from that assemblage, this experimental collection tracks Johnson’s efforts to link literary reading with concrete matters of personhood and care at a moment when the very system of higher education that enabled Johnson’s work in the 1980s and 1990s faces existential threat. The frozen record of a live experience, the book is an impure procedure, tangled in the idiom of its own unfolding: a temporary culmination of an ongoing collaborative undertaking that will always remain unfinished.
DEVIN M. GAROFALO is an assistant professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned and the editor of Victorian Poetry
NATHAN K. HENSLEY is a professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author, most recently, of Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse.
NOVEMBER
184 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
3 BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES
PAPER 979-8-89948-066-9(S) $36.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-067-6(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-068-3(S) $36.00
Gerda Walther A Life in Phenomenology
Antonio Calcagno
Exploring the rich phenomenological and psychological insights of Gerda Walther
This is the first major study of Gerda Walther (1897–1977), an important but underappreciated figure in the early phenomenological movement and one of the founding members of the coeducational Freiburg Phenomenological Society. Walther saw herself, along with Hedwig Conrad Martius and Edith Stein, as a student of the phenomenological movement charged with the preservation of its philosophical legacy and the extension of its practice. As Antonio Calcagno elucidates in this learned but accessible biographical account, she served as an important bridge between the Freiburg school of phenomenology, marked by Edmund Husserl’s idealism, and the realist branch that emerged in Munich, where she completed her studies with Alexander Pfänder. Her work has remained little known, however, especially to English-language readers.
Calcagno provides a comprehensive picture of Walther’s philosophical corpus and ideas, from her early investigations to her later writings, while highlighting the originality of her own phenomenological work. He shows how she challenged certain key claims of phenomenology and provided unique solutions to the problems she encountered. The phenomenology that Walther leaves us with is deeply marked by her emphasis on the importance of psyche, spirit, and personhood for achieving a phenomenological methodology and understanding. We find in her work a rich phenomenological psychology that explores not only the limit phenomena of the discipline but also the deep structure of inner psychic life framed in personalist terms.
NOVEMBER
200 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-097-3(S) $36.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-098-0(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-099-7(S) $36.00
ANTONIO CALCAGNO is a professor of philosophy at King’s University College, Western University.
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Human Identity
Claude Romano
Translated from the French by
Samuel R. Webb
Examining philosophical views of human identity and calling for a shift in how we discuss this essential concept
The problem of identity is one of the most debated contemporary issues in philosophy and the social sciences. Human Identity does not approach this question from a sociological or political position but rather seeks to take a step away from the dominant approach in metaphysics and analytical philosophy, putting forward a dialogical concept of identity inspired mainly by the phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition. Claude Romano argues that the question of identity can only be satisfactorily formulated from the point of view of an intrinsically social understanding of the human being: The identity that matters in our lives is the one we can assume before others in truthful conduct and thus the one for which we can bear responsibility in the first person.
Romano carefully examines the full historical sweep of the philosophy of identity, referencing not only classic thinkers, including Descartes, Locke, Kant, and Husserl, but also contemporary interlocutors, such as Richard Moran and Charles Larmore. He engages in a sustained dialogue with these fellow philosophers, historical and current, while arguing for a complete paradigm shift in our approach to identity. Romano contends that we need to move on from the question Who?, as used by a prosecutor or judge to identify a guilty party, and instead look to the question used by Montaigne to define himself: Who am I?
CLAUDE ROMANO is an associate professor at Université Paris-Sorbonne and a professorial fellow at the Australian Catholic University. His many books include At the Heart of Reason (Northwestern University Press).
SAMUEL R. WEBB teaches in the Great Books program at St. John’s College.
NOVEMBER
440 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-077-5(S) $40.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-078-2(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-079-9(S) $40.00
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
The Dialectical Screen
Walter Benjamin on Television
Roland Végső
Exploring the meanings of media technologies through Walter Benjamin’s thought
Walter Benjamin’s prime years as a cultural critic coincided with the rise of televised broadcasting in Europe and North America, a unique period of rapid expansion in a new technological medium. So why would such a subtle and sensitive critic of media, known for his cultural criticism across genres, seem to have ignored or even missed the entire phenomenon of television? This book reveals how television, as a concept and a metaphor, in fact structures Benjamin’s philosophy.
Through a careful reading of Benjamin’s work across various media—literature, photography, cinema, radio, and television—Roland Végső reconstructs a powerful vision of media technologies as not merely tools of communication but as forces that shape how we imagine and construct the world as a conceptual totality. The Dialectical Screen provides a timely and provocative framework for understanding how media continue to shape our political, cultural, and existential horizons, recasting Benjamin's understanding of historical materialism in fundamentally tele-visual terms as a theoretical orientation that makes visible the perishing of the world itself.
ROLAND VÉGSŐ is a professor of English at the University of Georgia.
PHILOSOPHY / FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
DECEMBER
168 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
3 BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES
PAPER 979-8-89948-061-4(S) $36.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-062-1(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-063-8(S) $36.00
Futures of the Flesh An Experiment in Film Writing
Domietta Torlasco
Exploring alternative possibilities of viewpoint through cinematic experimentation
In this boldly multidimensional work, Domietta Torlasco alternates between theoretical writings, film essays, and fragmented excerpts from an original screenplay to construct a temporal as well as spatial architecture for her critical intervention. Futures of the Flesh posits that cinematic experimentation holds the strongest potential to reimagine life—its forms, rhythms, and affects— beyond the division between subject and object, human and animal, animate and inanimate. Such potential cannot be clearly located in either space or time but, on the contrary, requires that we think according to momentum, diffraction, and difference.
As a novel notion and the formative medium of both subject and object, the flesh affirms the openness and indefinite generativity of being, allowing for the appearance of new perceptual relations and forms of kinship. Torlasco stages a dialogue between thinkers including Hortense Spillers and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and turns to canonical films, including Blade Runner and Solaris, classic sci-fi literature such as Octavia Butler’s Kindred, and contemporary video art to elucidate how these media imaginatively rework the distinction between categories of being. This book endeavors to redefine the relation between theory and practice, analysis and creation, to name the primary relations that, under specific techno-aesthetic conditions, enable the emergence of porous, unbordered forms of life.
DOMIETTA TORLASCO is a critical theorist, filmmaker, and professor of comparative literature at Northwestern University. She is the author of four books, including The Rhythm of Images: Cinema Beyond Measure. Her video essays have screened at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Kino Arsenal in Berlin, among others.
PHILOSOPHY / FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
SEPTEMBER
176 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
22 COLOR IMAGES, 2 BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES
PAPER 979-8-89948-071-3(S) $36.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-072-0(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-0273-7(S) $36.00
Elemental Powers
Ernst Jünger, Critical Theory, and the Idea of Natural History
Andrew McCann
Examining the conflicted legacy of Ernst Jünger’s thought and its relationship to critical theory
In the 1920s, Ernst Jünger’s journalistic advocacy of a militaristic, antidemocratic nationalism played a central role in the rise of German fascism. At the same time, Jünger developed an increasingly acute account of how the mobilizing force of industrial technology embodied a will to power that, on the one hand, anticipated an authoritarian state but, on the other, assumed a planetary perspective that made national identifications redundant. What he called the Gestalt of the worker expresses the “elemental powers” that, he believed, mark the limits of Enlightenment conceptions of historical progress.
Today, Jünger appears in intellectual history primarily as a representative of protofascist decisionism, reactionary modernism, or the so-called conservative revolution. Andrew McCann puts these aspects of Jünger’s early work into dialogue with the posthistorical orientation that he developed after the Second World War in order to offer a fresh reading that demonstrates how Jünger’s obsession with the transience of cultural and historical forms displays deep structural affinities with the idea of natural history developed by Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. By tracing this thread in intellectual history, McCann charts the currents of influence and confluence between what are usually understood as sharply polarized political positions and the conceptual postures that accompany them: immanence and transcendence, reason and myth, class and nation, relations of production and the forces of nature.
ANDREW MCCANN is the Henry Winkley Professor of English Language and Literature at Dartmouth College.
JANUARY
232 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-094-2(S) $38.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-095-9(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-096-6(S) $38.00
The Early Novel in French Poetics of a Genre in the Making
Virginia Krause
Examining the role of changes in print technologies and poetics in the early novel
Around the same time that Aristotle’s Poetics was reemerging from obscurity, Rabelais was composing his Pantagruel series, while a host of influential works in a chivalric, sentimental, or pastoral vein were being imported from Spain and Italy. From this emergent corpus, Rabelais’s is the only name to have unambiguously made it into our modern canon of literary history, where he appears to stand alone as an early pioneer of the novel. The Early Novel in French: Poetics of a Genre in the Making explores the literary, cultural, and eminently material soil in which these early forms of what we would come to know as the novel originally took root, showing how they were imaginatively responding to the practices and uncertainties of the literary texts of their own era as well as to works of classical antiquity.
Within the flowering of experimental fictional forms in mid-sixteenth-century France, Virginia Krause identifies historical subplots shaping the development of this genre. As rhetorical culture continued to animate fictions through an active literary tradition, print culture was changing the very fabric of books. The early novel was thus at once rhetorically fashioned and technologically manufactured. Meanwhile, the legacy of medieval romance adventure persisted, making the early novel in French both a new laboratory for Aristotelian immersion and a vehicle for a mysterious and fugitive romanesque. Krause sheds fresh light on this new and rapidly evolving genre: its lifelike personas or “person-fictions”; its material forms, from pocketsized volumes to vast literary serials; its immersive powers; and its underappreciated role in the production of the modern author.
NOVEMBER
216 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION 14 BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES
PAPER 979-8-89948-084-3(S) $38.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-085-0(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-086-7(S) $38.00
VIRGINIA KRAUSE is a professor of French and Francophone studies at Brown University.
Rethinking the Early Modern
The Art of Breaking Worlds
On Contemporary Poetry and Public Language
Paul Jaussen
Showing how poetics provides a path for building new imagined possibilities
Drawing together a robust corpus of contemporary USAmerican poetry, The Art of Breaking Worlds explores social and political breaks: disasters, failures, and disruptions that simultaneously constitute and fracture the world. These breaks range from unsuccessful political movements and acts of resistance to mass incarceration and biopolitical violence, from anti-Black racism to the infrastructural catastrophes of climate collapse. Paul Jaussen shows how poetry responds to such disasters by incorporating public-facing genres and discourses into its literary practice, thereby rewriting into aesthetic form the public languages used to perpetuate or contain that rupture. This poetic integration of public language thus generates a third space, located between the rhetorical and the aesthetic, a literary practice of both world-breaking and world-making that transforms existing genres while also creating newly imagined modes of collectivity. Grounded in contemporary theory and close readings of works by poets such as Claudia Rankine, Juliana Spahr, and Ilya Kaminsky, this book proposes that these dynamics require a distinctive critical poetics, one simultaneously attuned to discourses of struggle and discourses of art, modeling a fresh approach to the relationship between politics and literature.
PAUL JAUSSEN is an associate professor of literature in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication Department at Lawrence Technological University.
DECEMBER
264 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-089-8(S) $36.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-090-4(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-091-1(S) $36.00
Study Without Ends
Aesthetic Education in Neoliberal Latin America
D. Bret Leraul
Calls for aesthetic education to unite cultural practices of radical imagination with everyday practices of care
While Latin America was neoliberalism’s laboratory, Argentina and Chile have been crucibles for its cultural logics. In this book, D. Bret Leraul examines the rise of neoliberal culture in the Southern Cone through the educational infrastructures that disseminate and reproduce it. Leraul draws on literature and criticism, the history of higher education, and examples of recent social movements to propose a theory of cultural production for social transformation.
Study Without Ends charts the cultural consequences of introducing a neoliberal rationality into the region’s higher education landscape. The university’s increasing centrality within the literary institution and the rise of theoretical prose fiction suggest that poetics today is less about crafting literary works than instructing readers. At the same time, despite efforts to reduce education to human capital investment, it remains a process of personal and social transformation, as recent activism by Chilean students and Argentinean unemployed workers shows. In response to the compounding crises of social reproduction represented by the informal work and precarious livelihoods of people rendered surplus populations, and inspired by the decommodified labor of students, artists, women, and the unemployed, Leraul calls for a materialist aesthetic education that unites artistic culture’s practices of radical imagination and everyday culture’s practices of care.
D. BRET LERAUL is an assistant professor of comparative humanities at Bucknell University. He is the translator of The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University by Willy Thayer (Northwestern University Press).
SEPTEMBER
320 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-074-4(S) $38.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-075-1(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-076-8(S) $38.00
Imperial Decay Literature, Autonomy, and the End of Modernization in the Americas
Emilio Sauri
Demonstrating how art and literature remain vital to alternative imaginaries beyond the power of imperialism and modernization
Imperial Decay: Literature, Autonomy, and the End of Modernization in the Americas employs a dynamic, comparative approach to contemporary literature and visual art, showing how fiction, photography, poetry, and film from Latin America and the United States vividly illuminate the present. Focusing on the period from the end of the Cold War to the financial crisis of the late 2000s, Emilio Sauri contends that what brings these media together is not just the history of hemispheric connections but also, and more strikingly, the question of the artwork’s autonomy.
Elaborating on influential accounts that reveal how US hegemony in Latin America and the resistance it inspired throughout the region are bound up with the promise of modernization, Imperial Decay offers unique insights into the hollowing out of this promise at the end of the socalled American Century. Tracing this commitment back to the modernisms of the last century and forward to more recent works, this book casts canonical figures such as Ernest Hemingway, Walker Evans, and Gabriel García Márquez in a new and necessary light while developing a compelling interpretive framework for contemporary writers and artists from across the region, including Roberto Bolaño and Benjamin Kunkel, Alejandro Cartagena and Yvonne Venegas, and Kleber Mendonça Filho. Ultimately, Sauri shows why the work of art remains vital to the task of envisioning alternatives to the immiserations, ecological devastation, and degraded forms of life wrought by imperial decay.
EMILIO SAURI is a professor of English and director of the Center for Humanities, Culture, and Society at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
LITERARY CRITICISM
DECEMBER
272 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
26 BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES
PAPER 979-8-89948-042-3(S) $36.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-043-0(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-044-7(S) $36.00
Recognizing Reality
German Realism and the Mediation of Presence
Jessica C. Resvick
Reveals how literary scenes of recognition stage the process of coming to know reality
In this deeply researched and thought-provoking study, Jessica C. Resvick traces nineteenth-century German realist writing’s paradoxical investment in mediated accounts of the world and the direct, unfiltered experience of reality. Focusing on the motif and operation of recognition in its Aristotelean sense, Resvick examines self-reflexive narratives in which the authors struggle to resolve this tension between the media they choose and the immediacy they hope to create.
Through close readings of key works by canonical authors such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, and Adalbert Stifter, Resvick demonstrates the medially influenced and historically contingent ways in which they represent reality. Each chapter focuses on a different form of recognition, reconstructing the techniques that allow these authors to generate an effect of presence. Exploring the history and poetics of knowledge exchange, Recognizing Reality: German Realism and the Mediation of Presence expands on recent media histories of realism, examining the material bases for realist aesthetics while also investigating media’s epistemological accomplishments, and astutely elaborates the role of recognition as a mediumspecific tool.
JESSICA C. RESVICK is an assistant professor in the Department of German Language and Literatures at Oberlin College.
SEPTEMBER
200 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION 14 BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES
PAPER 979-8-89948-058-4(S) $38.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-059-1(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-060-7(S) $38.00
Lessons and Legacies, Volume XVI Rethinking Paradigms
Edited and with an introduction by
Sarah Phillips Casteel and Jennifer V. Evans
Bringing forth new perspectives previously unrepresented in Holocaust studies
Lessons and Legacies, Volume XVI: Rethinking Paradigms does the difficult but crucial work of thinking through new methods and modes of representation that speak to where we find ourselves in Holocaust studies today, responding to—and developing new tools to analyze—the shifting shape of Holocaust memory: spatially, temporally, and in and across diverse media. The collection foregrounds the challenges visual sources pose to how we think about the Holocaust, including how it is represented differently in visual media, from photography to graphic novels, and establishes translation as a crucial concept for reframing Holocaust testimony and memory. The contributing authors also model ethical, nuanced ways to conduct comparative, connective work that challenges Eurocentric narratives of the Holocaust. The volume concludes with a section on memory work and activism that approaches the subject of post-1945 memory through different lenses to surface lesser-known aspects of Holocaust history.
SARAH PHILLIPS CASTEEL is a professor of English at Carleton University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
JENNIFER V. EVANS is a professor of history at Carleton University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
OCTOBER
336 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES
WORLD, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 979-8-89948-125-3(S) $40.00
CLOTH 979-8-89948-126-0(S) $120.00
EBOOK 979-8-89948-127-7(S) $40.00
Lessons and Legacies, Volume XV The Holocaust:
Global Perspectives, National Narratives, Local Contexts
Edited and with an introduction by
Erin McGlothlin and Avinoam Patt
Showcasing the intellectual vibrancy and diversity of cutting-edge research in Holocaust studies
This collection’s chapters manifest three broad categories: history, literature, and memory. At the same time, however, as the interdisciplinary nature of these chapters indicates, these categories should not be regarded as mutually exclusive or discrete. On the contrary, they overlap and intersect in compelling ways, demonstrating the dynamic character of contemporary Holocaust studies, which views history, narrative representation, and commemoration as mutually informative. Further, the contributors continue the recent trend in Holocaust studies whereby specific regional and national narratives are integrated into a more global approach to the event: Newer studies have continued to incorporate what was once termed the periphery into a more global examination of the experiences of Jewish refugees in flight to Latin America, Africa, and the Soviet Union. At the same time, very specific local studies deepen our knowledge of the mechanics of genocide, along with the experiences of refugees in flight, and the subsequent dimensions of Holocaust memory and representation.
ERIN MCGLOTHLIN is a professor of German and Jewish studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
AVINOAM PATT is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut.
OCTOBER
296 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLD, NEW IN PAPER PAPER 978-0-8101-4704-1(S) $38.00
Titles for Course Adoption
50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology
Gail Weiss / Ann V. Murphy/ Gayle Salamon
978-0-8101-4114-8(S)
$40.00
Investigations into the Literary Use of Language
Maurice Merleau-Ponty / Bryan Smyth
978-0-8101-4981-6(S)
$36.00
The Wanderer
Alexander Veltman / Stephen A. Bruce
978-0-8101-4903-8(S)
$26.00
www.nupress.northwestern.edu
The Phenomenological Study of Religion
Christina M. Gschwandtner
979-8-89948-034-8(S)
$40.00
Antigone as Political Philosophy
Gregor Moder / Tanja Dominko 979-8-89948-027-0(S)
$36.00
Information for Foreigners
Griselda Gambaro / Marguerite Feitlowitz
978-0-8101-1033-5(S)
$32.00
Titles for Course Adoption
Nightmare Remains Ege Selin Islekel
978-0-81014-748-5(S)
$36.00
The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève Marco Filoni / David Broder
978-0-81014-878-9(S)
$38.00
We Are Civic Media Sangita Shresthova / Dan Sinker / Pratik Nyaupane / Sophie Madej / Colin Maclay
978-0-81014-906-9(S)
$35.00
Feelin Bettina Judd
978-0-8101-4532-0(X)
$34.95
Marayrasu Edgardo Rivera Martínez / Amy Olen / César Ferreira
978-0-81014-943-4(S)
$24.00
Solo
Arlene Malinowski / Julie Ganey
978-0-81014-971-7(S)
$26.00
TITLE
Actor’s Revolution, The Anton
Art of Breaking Worlds, The Barbara Johnson Collective, The Blow Yourself Up Book of Mating, The Dialectical Screen, The Early Novel in French, The Elemental Powers Flowers Along the Way, The Futures of the Flesh Gerda Walther
Hafa Adai
Human Identity
Imperial Decay Lamp Back
Lessons and Legacies, Volume XV
Lessons and Legacies, Volume XVI
Let the Soil Rest
Liberal Arts
Light and the Dark, The Miracle Fever
Naked
Recognizing Reality Repair Attempts
AUTHOR, EDITOR, CONTRIBUTOR, OR, TRANSLATOR
Barber, David Bredeson, Kate Calcagno, Antonio Casteel, Sarah Phillips Castro Luna, Claudia Cayanan, Mark Anthony Chudakov, Aleksandr Danzy, Justin Evans, Jennifer V. Fladeboe, Amy Garofalo, Devin M. Gillespie, Alyssa Dinega Hamill, Kate Hensley, Nathan K. Hudson, Anthony Hussey, E. E. Jaussen, Paul Krause, Virginia Leahey, Kristin Leraul, D. Bret McCann, Andrew McGlothlin, Erin McGlynn, David Pamuntjak, Laksmi Patt, Avinoam Posner, Dassia N. Quan, Cameron Recinos, Eva Resvick, Jessica C. Romano, Claude Sauri, Emilio
Sergay, Timothy D. Thakkar, Ankur Torlasco, Domietta Tsvetaeva, Marina Tucker, Annie Végső, Roland Webb, Samuel R.
Please address all orders and customer service inquiries to:
Northwestern University Press / Chicago Distribution Center 11030 South Langley Avenue Chicago, IL 60628
TEL: 800-621-2736 or 773-702-7000 FAX: 1-800-621-8476 or 773-702-7212 (TTY) Hearing Impaired: 888-630-9347 pubnet@202-5280
Please note: Prices, discounts, and specifications in this catalog are subject to change without notice.
DISCOUNT SCHEDULES
All ISBNs containing (S) indicate short discount titles; those containing (X) indicate specialist discount titles. Both are eligible for regular bookseller discount breaks.
RETURNS
Address all returns to:
Northwestern University Press/ Chicago Distribution Center 11030 South Langley Avenue Chicago IL 60628
Returns will not be accepted at the Evanston address.
DAMAGED/DEFECTIVE ITEMS
No permission required. Claims must be made within 30 days of invoice date. Indicate whether you desire replacement or cancellation.
OVERSTOCK
No permission required. Invoice information, together with packing list of titles and ISBNs, must accompany shipment. Returned copies must be clean, salable, and carefully packed (not with newspaper). NU Press/CDC retains the right of final decision in determining the salability of the returned books. Returns deemed unsalable will be sent back at the customer’s expense.
PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY
Within 18 months from invoice date, books must be in salable condition, the current edition, and still available from the publisher. Superseded editions are not returnable 90 days after publication of new edition. Out-of-print titles are returnable within 60 days after declaration of out-ofprint status.
CREDIT
Full credit will be given based on the price/discount of the customer’s last purchase for each title returned. Books not purchased from NU Press will be returned at the bookseller’s expense.
SHIPPING
Free on Board Chicago IL, via the least expensive trackable means, usually UPS or motor freight.
NU Press/CDC will not ship by nontrackable means unless a waiver is on file.
EXAMINATION COPIES
Examination copy requests must be submitted via form linked on the NU Press website.
DESK COPIES
NU Press offers a complimentary desk copy to any instructor who adopts a book for classroom use. Please complete the form linked on the NU Press website.
PUBLICITY & REVIEW COPIES
Charlotte Keathley charlotte.keathley@northwestern.edu
SALES
Kristen Twardowski kristen.twardowski@northwestern.edu
SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS
Courtney Smotherman csmotherman@northwestern.edu
SALES INFORMATION
TERRITORIAL SALES RESTRICTION CODES (subject to change)
AA: For sale in All Americas
BCEXCAN: For sale in the World and Canada except for the British Commonwealth
CNAM: For sale only in North America, except Canada
COBE: Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada
CUSA: For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada
EU: Not for sale in Europe
NAM: For sale only in North America
NAPP: For sale only in North America, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the US Virgin Islands
NSA: For sale only in North and South America
OBE: Not for sale in the British Commonwealth
OBE/EC: Not for sale in the British Commonwealth or the European Union
OBE/EU: Not for sale in the British Commonwealth or Europe
OBE/IS/WE: Not for sale in the British Commonwealth, Israel, or Western Europe
UK: Not for sale in the United Kingdom
USCA: For sale only in the United States and Canada
WORLD: No territorial restrictions
www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall 2026
US SALES REPRESENTATIVES
EAST COAST
Laura Waldron
Voice: (773) 702-7248 lwaldron@uchicago.edu
MIDWEST
Travis Hale
Voice: (773) 702-0127 travishale@uchicago.edu
WEST COAST
Gary Hart
Voice: (818) 956-0527
Cell: (213) 925-4542 ghart@uchicago.edu
ALL STATES NOT LISTED ABOVE AND CANADA
Chicago Distribution Center 11030 South Langley Avenue Chicago, IL 60628
Tel (US and Canada): (800) 621-2736
Tel (International): (773) 702-7000 orders@press.uchicago.edu
www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall 2026
SALES REPRESENTATIVES
INTERNATIONAL SALES REPRESENTATIVES
AFRICA, CONTINENTAL EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, UNITED KINGDOM
Mare Nostrum 39 East Parade
North Yorkshire HG1 5LQ United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1243 843291 enquiries@mare-nostrum.co.uk
ASIA,
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, PACIFIC ISLANDS
RTM Asia-Pacific Book Marketing
Royden Muranaka 4348 Waialae Aveenue, PMB 749
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
Tel: (808) 728-6214 royden@hawaii.edu
OTHER
Individuals and institutions may order directly through their local bookstore, an online retailer, or via email: mng.csd@wiley.com
QUESTIONS REGARDING YOUR SALES REPRESENTATION
Kristen Twardowski Director of Sales & Marketing
Northwestern University Press 629 Noyes Street Evanston, IL 60208 kristen.twardowski@northwestern.edu
CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ENCLOSED
As of January 2023, this catalog order form can only be used with checks and money orders.
If you would like to pay with a credit card, please place your order online at nupress.northwestern.edu or by phone at (800) 621-2736 (North America only).
SUBTOTAL
SHIPPING & HANDLING DOMESTIC: $5.00 first book, $1 addl. FOREIGN: $9.50 first book, $5 addl. TOTAL
www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall 2026
Hafa Adai PAGE 5