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CONTENTS Spring 2026 Books - 3 - 33 Course Adoption - 34 - 35 Index - 36 Sales Information - 37 - 38 Order Form - 39 To order, call 1-800-621-2736 or order online at www.nupress.northwestern.edu For more information, email nupress@northwestern.edu

NOVEL

The Come Apart A Novel

Susannah Felts An authentic rock band story from Chicago to Nashville and, just maybe, back again On the cusp of turning thirty, Chicago indie musician Maggie Corbin has hustled for a decade, set on making her rock and roll dreams come true. Her band, Spinning Birds, fronted by Maggie and her romantic partner Matt Turkish, releases a debut record to critical acclaim, hits the road, and begins working on a follow-up. From the outside, her path looks like success—but as streaming deconstructs the industry and Maggie’s relationships shift and slip, the question remains: Can you live for art alone? When a sudden move back to the South forces Maggie to reframe her dreams and reckon with familial rifts and her past—while still fighting to reimagine what her future could be—a natural disaster in Nashville and a surprise encounter with a character from her childhood shift her perspective on healing, community, and the ties that bind. Drifting in and out of songwriting sessions, cozy kitchens, and moments of bearing witness to the curious power of the natural world, The Come Apart celebrates the times when we must come fully undone in order to put ourselves back together.

JUNE 256 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.25 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-045-4 $26.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-046-1 $26.00

SUSANNAH FELTS is a writer, editor, and cofounder of the Porch, a nonprofit literary arts center in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the author of the novel This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record, and her writing has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, StorySouth, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She is a contributing writer for Chapter 16 and an editor with SWING, a biannual literary magazine published by the Porch.

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STORIES

That May Not Mean What You Think Stories

Elizabeth Crane A visionary and profound new collection from innovative author Elizabeth Crane Throughout her body of work, Elizabeth Crane’s literary vision has always been singular and innovative, twisting form and bending reality into new universes. Her latest collection, That May Not Mean What You Think, explores themes of aging and youth, gender and discrimination, and sex and love. In “Training Module,” Crane takes the structure and protocol of workplace harassment prevention training and turns it on its head; “The Box” tells the story of a woman trying to recover from divorce with the help of a literal unicorn; and “The Youngs” follows a group of teenagers experiencing loss for the first time, clinging to the belief that they’ll live forever. Across these delightfully weird and disarmingly truthful stories, American culture is refracted through humor and heart, asking readers to consider their complicity and to imagine new possibilities of participating in a better future.

APRIL 184 PAGES, 5.25 × 8 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-019-5 $24.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-020-1 $24.00

ELIZABETH CRANE is the author of the memoir This Story Will Change and six works of fiction, including the story collection Turf and the novel The History of Great Things. Her stories have been translated into several languages and have appeared in numerous publications, including Catapult, Electric Literature, and Literary Hub. Her work is performed regularly as part of NPR’s Selected Shorts and has been adapted for film and stage, most notably with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. She teaches in the lowresidency MFA program at the University of California, Riverside–Palm Desert.

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REPRINT / STORIES

When the Messenger is Hot Stories

Elizabeth Crane Foreword by Lisa Lucas A beloved, smart, and bold story collection surges back to life in a new print edition Hailed as “revolutionary fiction,” When the Messenger Is Hot gleefully upends the short-story form, rendering the absurdities and possibilities of modern urban life with disarming humor and keen perception as Crane weaves through grief and womanhood. The women in Elizabeth Crane’s world are fierce and kind, damaged and optimistic. They are jilted lovers, absent daughters, twelve-steppers, and smart-asses, recovering from loss, addiction, or betrayal. From a woman who decides to live on the rooftop of her friend’s apartment (why not?), to a writer whose identity is compromised by the actress who portrays her, to a daughter who believes her deceased mother is still alive and living at the bus depot, these characters experience love and loss in a way that is both profoundly universal and uniquely theirs.

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APRIL 184 PAGES, 5.25 × 8 INCHES WORLDWIDE PAPER 979-8-88948-017-1 EBOOK 979-8-89948-018-8

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DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Circle Jerk and This American Wife the internet theater of Fake Friends

Plays by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley Contributions by Rory Pelsue, Cat Rodríguez, and Ariel Sibert Two plays along with process essays on the cacophonous world of pop culture, politics, and personal testimony that we call the internet In March 2020, the New York theater company Fake Friends was pushed off the stage and into the land of the internet. This book marks the first publication of two of their deliciously absurd and toxically serious internet plays, Circle Jerk (the first-ever work in digital theater to be shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama) and This American Wife. Circle Jerk tells the social media–infused tale of gay white supremacists creating an AI-influencer to dominate the global discourse, and This American Wife spins a surrealist web of queer devotion to the stars and performance strategies of reality television; both plays are unapologetically theatrical and digitally native, born out of the exigencies of the pandemic. This collection features an electrifying visual archive as well as individual essays from each company member reflecting on the practical and interpersonal processes of bringing these award-winning plays to life in our ever-more online, political, and personal world. MICHAEL BRESLIN is a writer, composer/lyricist, and director of plays, musicals, and movies. He holds a DFA from Yale School of Drama and a BA from Hamilton College.

AUGUST 368 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION 3 BLACK & WHITE IMAGES, 46 COLOR IMAGES PAPER 979-8-89948-054-6 $28.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-055-3 $28.00

PATRICK FOLEY is a writer and actor working in film, theater, and television. He holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama and a BFA from New York University. RORY PELSUE is a director of new and classic plays, operas, musicals, and live-stream performances. He holds an MFA in directing from Yale School of Drama. CAT RODRÍGUEZ is a freelance artist and dramaturg who has worked with numerous theater companies and festivals, including the Public, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and New York Theatre Workshop. ARIEL SIBERT is a dramaturg, producer, and critic, and an associate professor of theater studies at Quinnipiac University. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama and a BA from Princeton.

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POETRY

Bisquick

An American Seance

C. Russell Price A breathtaking gallop through spectral planes, grief, and ghosts Grief is a rodeo filled with ghost clowns. In Bisquick: An American Seance, C. Russell Price explores spiritualism and the fetishization of the Midwest cowboy aesthetic, creating a vibrant world inhabited by three unforgettable characters: the speaker, a traumatized eco-anarchist working through grief; Ghost Cowboy, a ghost dream boyfriend hell-bent on hunting predators of the poor; and Bisquick, a blue ghost horse who just wants to dance. This spectral trio boogies, copulates, and fights against a system that ghosted them long before the demise of their physical bodies, determined to stay saddled to their dreams. Price gallops through the widths of time, the geography of the United States, the spectral plane, and the leather BDSM scene as they attempt to answer this provocative collection’s central question: If the dead could talk, wouldn’t they have something better to say?

AUGUST 96 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-056-0 $20.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-057-7 $20.00

C. RUSSELL PRICE is the author of oh, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems and Tonight, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other. They are a poet in residence at the Chicago Poetry Center and work with the Anarchist Review of Books. They are a Lambda Fellow, a Ragdale Fellow, and two-time Lit 50 honoree. Price landscapes in Chicago.

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NOVEL

Missy

A Novel Raghav Rao A remarkable young woman flees India to chase the dream of self-reinvention in America The orphaned girls of St. Ursula’s convent are destined to be nuns or servants, but seventeen-yearold Savi dreams of escape. She is chosen to work as a governess for the wealthy Nandiyar family at their country estate in Tamil Nadu, where she falls for a lively and carefree apprentice sculptor. After the violent and horrific events of a single night, they are forced to flee, leaving their homeland forever in the rearview. Decades later, Savi has become known to all as “Missy” and runs a successful driving school in Chicago. She is a pillar of the South Asian community and the mother of two brilliant, stubborn young women, Mansi and Shilpa. But when Varun, a charming doctor with mysterious connections to her past, enters their lives, a chain of events is set off that puts Missy’s carefully constructed world in jeopardy. Can Missy outrun her secrets? And, if she is forced to face them, what will become of those she loves?

MARCH 288 PAGES, 5.25 × 8 INCHES OBE PAPER 979-8-89948-003-4 EBOOK 979-8-89948-004-1

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RAGHAV RAO was born in Mumbai and grew up in London, Los Angeles, and Southern India. He teaches at the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and writes a newsletter about information saturation.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / POETRY

Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices Street Portraits and Poems Marcus Jackson An astounding collection of photographs from a renowned poet Created during the tumultuous years of 2020 and 2021, Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices: Street Portraits and Poems intersects the lens of accomplished poet and photographer Marcus Jackson with his words. The focus: the Black experience and existence. Amid isolation, protest, and survival, Jackson is the aperture and scribe giving visual consciousness and breath to these human portraits. His camera strips the view of endless cycles of social and moral injustices, presenting a resonant collection of photographs that make space for the moments and the people whose beings represent the ongoing interplay between history, society, and the individual soul.

JUNE 80 PAGES, 7.5 × 5 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-050-8 $25.00

MARCUS JACKSON earned his bachelor of arts degree at the University of Toledo and continued his poetry studies in NYU's graduate creative writing program and as a Cave Canem Fellow. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. Jackson has one chapbook and two full-length poetry collections, including Pardon My Heart (Northwestern University Press, 2018). He lives with his wife and child in Ohio and teaches in the MFA programs at Ohio State and Queens University of Charlotte.

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NOVEL

How We See the Gray A Novel

Rachel León A riveting story about parenthood, substance abuse, and the strength it takes to come back from our mistakes Foster care is a disaster in Rockford, Illinois. Meredith, a social worker and single mom, is stretched beyond thin but determined to protect her kids: not only her son, but those on her caseload too. When the stress of the job has her breaking her sobriety, the foundations of her life begin to tremble. After drinking too much, she makes a mistake that puts her preschooler in jeopardy, and Meredith finds herself in a situation that mirrors her clients’ as she loses custody of her son. In her fight to get him back, Meredith experiences the system from the outside—while still working for the kids inside of it. Set over the course of a year, this riveting documentary-esque novel is told from multiple perspectives, including those of case workers, birth parents, foster parents, and foster children. Written with the working-class humor and heart that defines the Midwest, How We See the Gray is a story about mistakes, second chances, and trying to do better in a system that seems doomed to fail.

MAY 256 PAGES, 5.25 × 8 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-4989-2 $26.00 EBOOK 978-0-8101-4990-8 $26.00

RACHEL LEÓN has worked in the foster care system for more than a decade. She serves as managing director for the Chicago Review of Books and fiction director for Arcturus. Her work has appeared in Catapult, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Foglifter, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. She hails from Rockford, Illinois, and is the editor of The Rockford Anthology.

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STORIES

Har Mar Stories

Hilal Isler Journeying through the emotional migrations of women living in the in-between In Hilal Isler’s gripping debut story collection, Har Mar, women in the early twenty-first century navigate the complex spaces between countries, families, languages, and selves. Isler’s characters are all on the verge of something—success, rebellion, revelation— and they want to disappear as much as they want to be seen. Moving back and forth between Turkey and the United States, these stories trace migrations both physical and emotional: a nanny plots to flee the wealthy family she cares for in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul; in Har Mar, a quiet mall tucked in the suburbs of Minneapolis; a bookseller escapes her grief in a complicated relationship with a wig retailer; an actress is hired by a famous American novelist to portray her at public events. The women in Har Mar don’t always make sound decisions, and they’re not trying to be heroes. But they are reaching—imperfectly, but fiercely—for connection, truth, and home. With moving prose and a deep sense of longing, this collection explores what it means to grow up in the margins, to live in translation, and to build a life at the edge of belonging.

JULY 248 PAGES, 5.25 × 8 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-052-2 $24.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-053-9 $24.00

HILAL ISLER teaches at the University of Texas. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s, New York Magazine, The Believer, The Baltimore Review, The Paris Review online, and elsewhere. She is a 2023 McKnight Fellow in Creative Prose and lives with her family in Austin.

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POETRY

The Essential Poems Micheal O’Siadhail The essential selected works of Ireland’s leading poet, Micheal O’Siadhail With an illustrious literary career that has spanned over fifty years, renowned poet Micheal O’Siadhail has cemented his place on the international stage. From his debut collection, The Leap Year (1978), to his latest collection, Desire (2023), O’Siadhail captures evolving struggles with love, religion, and humanity. Here, spanning the entirety of his outstanding career, is the essence of his masterful body of work. The Essential Poems voyages through traditional and innovative poetic forms, investigating love and passion, joy and loss, world-shaping events and personal experiences. O’Siadhail sounds the depths of meaning and evokes wonder, surprise, anguish, and delight. A lyrical meditation on the relationships between humanity and nature, despair and faith, and the richness of courage in the acts of healing completes what proves to be this unforgettable and necessary collection of the inimitable Irish poet.

MAY 96 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-4979-3 $24.00 EBOOK 978-0-8101-4980-9 $24.00

MICHEAL O’SIADHAIL was born in Dublin in 1947. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oslo. A full-time writer, he has published eighteen collections of poetry, receiving numerous awards, including the Marten Toonder Prize for Literature and the Irish American Cultural Institute prize for poetry. He has been a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and is still writing poetry, splitting his time between New York City and Dublin.

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POETRY

Amphibian Poems

Joseph O. Legaspi Exploring queerness, belonging, and the meaning of home through the lens of a Filipino American How does a queer brown body move through the American panorama? In Amphibian, Joseph O. Legaspi explores the metaphor of “amphibious living”— adapting, surviving, and flourishing in varying geographies—as it pertains to immigrants and to queerness. These poems draw on the natural world to illuminate personal experiences and, in turn, closely examine cultural, environmental, and societal constructs and concerns. Legaspi searches in nature for evidence of the validity of his own existence, determined to declare his belonging. Dwelling in landscape as a guide into the interior, Amphibian journeys not only between earth, water, and air, but also into the past, cataloging an immigrant’s departures, arrivals, and returns to native soil. This moving collection is at every turn liberating, fraught, and altered.

APRIL 104 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLD exc PHILIPPINES, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-007-2 $18.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-008-9 $18.00

JOSEPH O. LEGASPI is the author of two previous poetry collections, Threshold and Imago, and of three chapbooks: Postcards; Aviary, Bestiary; and Subways. He works at Columbia University, teaches at Fordham University, and resides with his husband in Queens, New York.

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STORIES

Brown Girls, Grown Up Stories

Sima Qadeer A poignant and graceful story collection about the clash and harmony of finding one’s place in an adult world that feels “other” Brown Girls, Grown Up shines a light on the nuances of modern womanhood with grace, honesty, and charm. The stories in Qadeer’s debut collection delve into the subtleties and blatant struggles of navigating shifting identities as one matures, into the joys and challenges of intimacy and aging, and into the changing tides of motherhood. Middle-aged Amira takes radical action after meeting a new friend who lulls her into feeling safe and accepted; Hanna enrolls her biracial children in a local Sunday school after worrying they have no real connection to her Muslim heritage; betrayals and secrets come to light when a group of college friends reunite to take stock and compare achievements. Filled with humor and heartache, this collection offers a fresh and profoundly relatable perspective on the lifelong search for belonging in a world shaped by tradition, modernity, and individual ambition.

JUNE 272 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-032-4 $24.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-033-1 $24.00

SIMA QADEER is a Toronto-based author whose writing explores themes of identity, belonging, and empowerment. She previously worked in public policy and administration, focusing on gender equality with the Canadian International Development Agency and Global Affairs Canada.

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NOVELLA

The Turn A Novella

Rachel Feder A contemporary gothic delving into the power of unmoored lust and familial bonds When Baxter, a young writer and recent college graduate, accepts a live-in nanny position for an affluent professor’s family in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, she rapidly becomes aware of strange happenings orbiting the family and their children, Quinn and Thebes. After the father becomes estranged and the mother disappears into the night with only one child, Baxter is left utterly lost and in charge of the baby, Thebes, as she struggles to make sense of the bizarre occurrences within the family, the house, and even her own body. But the unnatural occurrences are far from over, and as Baxter stumbles in the dark to protect the child, something sinister stalks the night, looking to sink in its teeth. For fans of gothic classics such as The Turn of the Screw and Carmilla, The Turn is an eerie and magnificent modern gothic tale about the monstrous bond of love between caregiver and child.

JULY 144 PAGES, 5 × 7 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-030-0 $20.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-031-7 $20.00

RACHEL FEDER is an associate professor of English and literary arts at the University of Denver. She is the author of Daisy and Harvester of Hearts (both from Northwestern University Press), The Darcy Myth, Birth Chart, and two coauthored works, AstroLit and Taylor Swift by the Book.

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POETRY

Differential Diagnosis Poems Cavar Undoing traditional psychiatric narratives in this innovative and bold first collection Drawing from queer, trans, disabled, and Mad poetic traditions, Differential Diagnosis introduces a deeply entangled transMad approach, investigating ways of knowing, loving, and living not legible to the normative eye. This collection challenges the architecture of institutional psychiatry and its popular “wellness” analogues, offering instead a counternarrative of forced institutionalization, disorderly embodiment, and transMad self-determination. At once jarring and joyful, Differential Diagnosis interrogates psychiatric power and locates capacities for disabled and/or transMad resistance in the oblique, the speculative, and the “nonsensical.” Cavar’s inventive full-length debut defamiliarizes cis, sane, abled existence through linguistic play and speculative imagery, offering Madness not only as poetic content, but also as craft technique and, ultimately, as a new way of being in the normative world.

MARCH 88 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-005-8 $18.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-006-5 $18.00

CAVAR is the author of the novel Failure to Comply and editor in chief of manywor(l)ds. Their work can be found in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Cavar holds a PhD in cultural studies from the University of California, Davis.

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POETRY

Slow Burn Evan Wang Foreword by Ching-In Chen Winner of the 2024 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize Persistent yet flickering, Slow Burn unveils a passionate world where love is both impossible and inevitable. Divided into three sections, Evan Wang’s debut chapbook traces the confrontation of the self through a cyclical journey of discovery and contradiction, ultimately leading to the choice of allowance: that which is made by the reader. These poems slowly burn first through our own inner silence, then through the thick dark of night, and finally to abstract closure—or lack thereof. They urge and hold us back, begging us to understand how, amid cultural, societal, and political suppression of the self, we kiss the muscled mouths of the world by carrying our bodies through it. Slow Burn is a romantic’s answer to the search for love, and the strangely comforting realization that the effects of the world mark us all.

APRIL 52 PAGES, 5 × 7 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-4987-8 $12.00

王潇

EVAN WANG is the ninth National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, the first male and East Asian individual to hold this title. His work appears in POETRY Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Waxwing, The Journal, and elsewhere, and has been recognized by the White House, the United Nations, the Smithsonian Institution, and Button Poetry. He was born in Philadelphia and is an undergraduate student at Harvard College.

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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Bless Me, Papi A Novel

Ayendy Bonifacio A coming-of-age tale of a young Dominican American boy facing a grave loss and a feathered phantom Between the looming buildings of Brooklyn, a young Dominican American boy only ever called mijo by his family has just lost his father to brain cancer. In the wake of his grief, he begins to see his deceased father take the form of a pigeon and ghost, acting as protector and advisor in moments of duress and confusion. Determined to find out the truth behind his father’s appearances, he sets out on the streets of Brooklyn with his outspoken friend Naño, and in the hills of the Dominican Republic with his cousin Matias, in search of answers, only to discover more ghostly apparitions and inexplicable occurrences. In a world of lost things and in-betweens, the grief-stricken son must choose whether he can bear to let go of his father or accept the consequences of what we let haunt us.

AYENDY BONIFACIO is the author of Dique Dominican and To the River, We Are Migrants. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Bonifacio is an associate professor of English at the University of Toledo in Ohio, where he lives with his partner and daughter.

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AUGUST 164 PAGES, 5 × 8 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 979-8-89948-040-9 $26.00 EBOOK 979-8-89948-041-6 $26.00

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

The Falcon Experience

A Flight with Chicago’s Field Museum Illustrations by Peggy Macnamara Written by Katie Macnamara A joyful, educational flight from the halls of Chicago’s Field Museum to the nests of mighty peregrine falcons Rosie the Tarantula, famous for her adventure in the corridors and collections of Chicago’s celebrated Field Museum of Natural History, is back. This time, Rosie is focused not on spiders, but on falcons! The Falcon Experience brings us with Rosie as she follows Mary Hennen, the museum’s real-life peregrine program director, giving children and parents alike a front-row seat to the lives of these majestic birds and the scientist who cares for them. Rosie learns how falcons fly, hunt, eat, mate, construct nests and raise chicks (via the peregrine webcam!) in unexpected and challenging places in the city. Mary’s teachings also show how humans can be the key to helping our natural environment. Beautifully illustrated with watercolors by renowned Field Museum artist-in-residence Peggy Macnamara, The Falcon Experience is told by Peggy’s daughter, author and educator Katie Macnamara, in rhyme ideal for reading aloud to children. This keepsake-quality book will delight budding young scientists and their families while providing a colorful, interactive experience with one of Chicago’s foremost cultural institutions.

MAY 48 PAGES, 11 × 8.5 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION HARDCOVER 979-8-89948-021-8

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PEGGY MACNAMARA is the artist in residence at the Chicago Field Museum, where she has published multiple books in collaboration with Field scientists. She is an adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an instructor at the Field Museum, Chicago Public Libraries Nature Connection, and Art Institute family programs. KATIE MACNAMARA teaches English literature and writing at John Abbott College in Montreal. She spent countless childhood hours wandering the Field Museum’s halls while her mother painted. Now she loves to explore the museum with her four children, both out in the open and behind the scenes.

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PERFORMING ARTS / DIARIES

The Diaries of Judith Malina Judith Malina Edited by Kate Bredeson JUNE

The Diaries of Judith Malina is a four-volume set that publishes for the first time together the edited diaries of radical theater director, actor, and activist Judith Malina from 1947 to 1971, the most influential period of her remarkable and storied career. A committed anarchist and pacifist, Malina made theater as a way to stoke revolutionary action. Her diaries showcase her political and social observations, cultural commentary, self-reflection, and wit. This expertly prepared set invites us to recognize Malina for her accomplishments not only as an artist and an activist but as one of the great literary diarists.

JUDITH MALINA (1926–2015) was cofounder, with collaborator and husband Julian Beck, of The Living Theatre, a radical experimental company that rose to social and cultural prominence in New York City and internationally in the 1950s and ’60s and which she led until her death. She was a lifelong activist, artist, and diarist. KATE BREDESON is a theater historian, translator, director, and dramaturg. She is a professor of theater at Reed College. She is the author of Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May ’68 and cotranslator with Thalia Wolff of The Inheritor, by Théâtre de l’Aquarium, both from Northwestern University Press.

Each volume sold separately.

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PERFORMING ARTS / DIARIES

Volume 1: 1947-1957 Judith Malina Introduction by Kate Bredeson Judith Malina’s diaries from 1947 to 1957 are brought back into print in this volume, which charts her cofounding of The Living Theatre with husband and lifelong artistic partner Julian Beck. In these diaries, she narrates her developing political commitments and her expansive collaborations and personal relationships, as well as a moving account of her time in prison with activist Dorothy Day. This new edition features Kate Bredeson’s comprehensive introduction, which offers a detailed examination of Malina’s life and work in this period, along with additional historical context of these years and never-before-published photographs from Malina’s personal archives. 488 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE 16 BLACK & WHITE IMAGES PAPER 978-0-8101-4945-8 EBOOK 978-0-8101-4946-5

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Volume 2: 1957-1968 Judith Malina Foreword by Tom Walker Introduction by Kate Bredeson Judith Malina’s diaries from the pivotal years of 1958 to 1968 are presented here in print for the first time. Meticulously edited and with an essential introduction by Kate Bredeson that offers a detailed discussion of Malina’s life and works during this period, the volume includes additional historical context and never-beforepublished photographs from Malina’s personal archives, as well as an illuminating foreword by Living Theatre archivist and longtime company member Tom Walker. This decade covers some of the most important years of Malina’s life and in the history of The Living Theatre, from career-defining productions of The Connection and The Brig to the company’s self-imposed European exile, when they created their signature works, including Paradise Now, Antigone, and Frankenstein. 368 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION 20 BLACK & WHITE IMAGES PAPER 978-0-8101-4941-0 $30.00 EBOOK 978-0-8101-4942-7 $30.00

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PERFORMING ARTS / DIARIES

Volume 3: 1968-1969 Judith Malina Introduction by Kate Bredeson Originally published by Judith Malina as The Enormous Despair, this slim, gripping collection of diaries from a pivotal period between 1968 and 1969 follows The Living Theatre’s return to the United States after their years of self-exile in Europe, their increasing notoriety and frequent arrests, and their cross-country touring. In these pages, Malina wrestles with the company’s artistic and political efforts during a moment of societal crisis and grapples with their future. Kate Bredeson’s introduction contextualizes Malina’s life and work in this period, while additional historical context and never-before-published photographs add new detail and depth to a stirring account of American social and political history. 256 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE 7 BLACK & WHITE IMAGES PAPER 978-0-8101-4947-2 EBOOK 978-0-8101-4948-9

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Volume 4: 1969-1971 Judith Malina Foreword by Ilion Troya Introduction by Kate Bredeson The years 1969 to 1971 saw The Living Theatre’s greatest rupture, reckoning with its desire to leave its defining productions from the 1960s behind and move forward with new artistic works and practices. In these previously unpublished diaries, Judith Malina recounts these pivotal years, describing her transformative time in Brazil, including her experiences of daily life in jail while awaiting trial with her company members. This meticulously edited volume includes Kate Bredeson’s introduction, examining Malina’s life and work in this period, as well as additional historical context and never-before-published photographs. Living Theatre member Ilion Troya offers a foreword that provides new context for understanding the volume’s historical significance. 304 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION 10 BLACK & WHITE IMAGES PAPER 978-0-8101-4949-6 $30.00 EBOOK 978-0-8101-4950-2 $30.00

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THEATER AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Ibsen Apocalypse

Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s Six-HundredYear Mission to Raise the Ghosts of Modernity

Andrew Friedman Presenting a groundbreaking account of an audacious theatrical undertaking Created by the Norwegian/German duo of Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller, the Ibsen-Saga (2006–present) is a six-hundred-year project to restage Henrik Ibsen’s entire oeuvre. Andrew Friedman presents a groundbreaking historical narrative of this project’s development and dramaturgy, through the theories and practices of modernism’s most influential and controversial artists, including Henrik Ibsen, Richard Wagner, F. T. Marinetti, Erwin Piscator, and Jackson Pollock. Vinge and Müller treat Ibsen’s plays as the urtexts of a mythical struggle between artistic vision and material limits, which they explore through analogous narratives ranging from Hamlet to World Cup soccer matches, all unified by a singular aesthetic that juxtaposes totalizing fiction and extreme reality. As Friedman shows, they mythologize Ibsen’s themes of artistic ambition to resurrect and test modernism’s fantasies of artistic autonomy, totality, creative license, and provocation.

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By reading Vinge and Müller’s project through its modernist inspirations, Friedman demonstrates the material and ethical limits of modernist ideals in current theatrical practice, providing new perspectives on the legacy of these pioneering figures. Ibsen Apocalypse is a bold, cross-disciplinary reappraisal of the persistent power of modernity in contemporary performance. ANDREW FRIEDMAN is an associate professor of theater history and associate dean in the College of Fine Arts at Ball State University.

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PHILOSOPHY

Dearth

Deconstruction After Speculative Realism Volume 2: Art and Dwelling Philippe Lynes Proposing new insight into the legacies of Derridean thought for contemporary philosophy In Art and Dwelling, the second volume of his Dearth sequence, Philippe Lynes sheds new light on the most enduring offshoot of the speculative realist movement, object-oriented ontology. Through careful readings of Graham Harman and Timothy Morton, Lynes shows how Jacques Derrida’s seminars offer critical insights into the spacing and distancing that precede and exceed all human practices of art and dwelling, with a deep sensitivity to the ecological and ethico-political consequences that follow. Dearth: Deconstruction After Speculative Realism argues that Derrida’s seminars on Martin Heidegger and Maurice Blanchot, La Chose (The Thing), anticipated many of the philosophical, literary, and aesthetic questions animating speculative realism today: an anti-anthropocentric critique of Kantian correlationism; an overcoming of the apocalyptic nihilism of extinction through a deeper, affirmative habituation to nothingness; and poignant reflections on the literary and poetic aspects of living and dying in impossible worlds. His is an anti-correlationist plea that resounds now more urgently than ever.

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PHILIPPE LYNES is a researcher with the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dundee, and a visiting scholar with the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Glasgow.

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PHILOSOPHY

The Phenomenological Study of Religion Key Texts and Sources

Edited by Christina M. Gschwandtner Presenting a wide-ranging selection of works and commentary in religious phenomenology Phenomenology is a central method employed to study religious phenomena within religious studies, philosophy of religion, and philosophical theology. This expertly edited collection brings together historical sources and newly commissioned essays from various ways of investigating religion phenomenologically both to diversify the field and to make available important works that have not been previously translated into English. The Phenomenological Study of Religion includes not only representative texts from well-known phenomenological philosophers and scholars of religion but also selections from significant thinkers that have not been studied as widely, along with contributions from leading contemporary voices. This volume offers scholars and students at all levels of expertise broad exposure to the various configurations of the phenomenological study of religion.

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CHRISTINA M. GSCHWANDTNER is a professor of philosophy at Fordham University. Her many books include Ways of Living Religion: Philosophical Investigations into Religious Experience.

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PHILOSOPHY

Investigations into the Literary Use of Language Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1953

Maurice Merleau-Ponty Translated from the French by Bryan Smyth A closely annotated translation of Merleau-Ponty’s lecture notes on literary language Investigations into the Literary Use of Language presents an annotated translation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s lecture notes from one of the two courses that he gave during his inaugural year teaching at the Collège de France. In his notes from the concurrent course, The Sensible World and the World of Expression, Merleau-Ponty contends that our embodied perceptual engagement with the sensible world already involves the same spontaneity that underlies cultural expression. Approaching it from the other side, he revisits here the analysis of language that he had undertaken in the unfinished manuscript The Prose of the World. Focusing on the work of Paul Valéry (1871–1945) and Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783–1842), Merleau-Ponty explores how the spontaneity of literary language sheds light on the relation between lived experience and language more broadly, and how cultural expression remains grounded in embodied perceptual experience in a way that is homologous yet irreducible to it. Specifically, MerleauPonty shows how Stendhal had already overcome Valéry’s skepticism concerning literary sincerity by effectively incorporating what the latter called the linguistic “implex”— in effect, language as institution—and thus achieving a “total style” of improvisational spontaneity in which the “conquering function” characteristic of the literary use of language gives shape to an immanent model of political engagement.

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MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY (1908–1961) is the author of Adventures of the Dialectic, Child Psychology and Pedagogy, Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language, In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays, Institution and Passivity, Nature, The Primacy of Perception, The Prose of the World, Sense and Non Sense, The Sensible World and the World of Expression, Signs, and The Visible and the Invisible, all published by Northwestern University Press. BRYAN SMYTH is an instructional assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Mississippi. He is the translator of Merleau-Ponty's The Sensible World and the World of Expression: Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1953 (Northwestern University Press).

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Novalis, Spinoza, and the Limits of Romantic Materialism Siarhei Biareishyk Offering an innovative and illuminating new reading of Spinoza and Novalis This rigorously researched study reframes our understanding of the intellectual currents in Germany around 1800 through a careful reinterpretation of its key thinker, Novalis, in conversation with Spinoza’s philosophy. Siarhei Biareishyk presents an alternative to the standard narrative that resolutely links emergent modernity and secularization to philosophical “idealism” by showing how Spinozan materialism informs the scientific experiments, metaphysical inquiries, and political debates of Novalis and his contemporaries. Shifting our focus away from the historical interpretation of Novalis as a mystic and theorist of subjectivity, Biareishyk elaborates on the Spinozan materialist strain in Novalis in three key domains: ontology and the conception of nature, theories of singularity and individuation, and the concept of the political. He brings current romanticist scholarship into conversation with contemporary discussions of Spinoza in continental philosophy, in the Marxist tradition particularly, demonstrating that the Spinoza– Novalis encounter provides a viable alternative—in its articulation of causality, dialectics, and the political— to the dominant conceptual apparatuses of both Kant and Hegel.

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SIARHEI BIAREISHYK is a senior lecturer in the Department of Russian and East European Studies, with affiliate appointments in the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and in Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies, at the University of Pennsylvania.

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LITERARY CRITICISM

Masculine Births

Milton, Women, and the Law

Lynne Greenberg Examining the legal lives of early modern women through Milton’s literary works In his History of Britain, John Milton writes, “Laws are Masculin Births . . . nothing [is] more awry from the Law of God and Nature, then that a Woman should give Laws to Men.” In this interdisciplinary study, Lynne Greenberg explores the normative and nonnormative legal lives of early modern women as depicted in Milton’s works—unmarried and married women, mothers, heiresses, widows, and queens— providing cogent overviews of the laws of multiple jurisdictions to offer critical context for each case study. Greenberg explores a wide range of legaljuridical materials and previously unexplored archival and private family documents. As she demonstrates, while Milton’s narratives are at times enmeshed in existing jural paradigms, they also offer resistant responses to marital, custodial, property, inheritance, and criminal laws and even imagine alternative jural paradigms for women. Through Masculine Births: Milton, Women and the Law, Greenberg deftly reveals that Milton both reproduces seventeenth-century legal constructs and gives birth to laws that move us toward greater equality for women.

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LYNNE GREENBERG is a professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the editor of Legal Treatises in The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works and Printed Writings series and Fairy Poems in the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series, as well as the author of The Body Broken: A Memoir.

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Antigone as Political Philosophy Gregor Moder Translated from the Slovenian by Tanja Dominko Offering a new perspective on Sophocles’s Antigone as a model for reimagining humanity’s future—and its end Why read Antigone today? The premise of this accessible, essayistic work is that humanity finds itself at a crossroads, where it must reinvent itself or perish—a condition similar to Antigone’s own. Rereading Antigone via Hegel’s engagement with the text can help us understand what it means for a human age to come to an end: that is, to think of our age as an episode whose collapse is also an engine of historical change. Gregor Moder argues that the task of humanity today may not be to defend the minimal remnants of our civilization but to say farewell to it—to give it a proper burial. As Moder explicates, the central problem of this foundational tragedy lies in the positions of brother and sister, man and woman, representing human and divine law and the institutions of the state and the family. Through a fresh reading of both Sophocles’s play and Hegel’s productive reworking of the Greek myth, Moder’s analysis shows that sometimes the only way through deep social contradictions is in unraveling the framework that has constructed them.

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GREGOR MODER is a senior research associate in the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity (Northwestern University Press).

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PHILOSOPHY / FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Assayas and Political Seriousness Brian Price A cogent reconsideration of Assayas’s cinematic oeuvre and what it teaches us about the political today The films of Olivier Assayas are widely celebrated for their complex responses to the many shifts that globalization has introduced in our time. Brian Price contends that they offer a different way of regarding the so-called problem of cultural and political enmeshment that Carl Schmitt and other conservative thinkers fear, including a contention that enmeshment is not a problem at all, in fact, but rather a different mode of social and political organization. Price puts Assayas’s films in dialogue not only with Schmitt’s theory of the political but also with the history of political philosophy after Schmitt, especially in the work of Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and Chantal Mouffe, all of whom have attempted to reckon with the friend/enemy dynamic at the core of the political. At the heart of Assayas’s cinematic oeuvre, and of this book, is a reflection on what it means to be politically serious, which, Price shows, cannot be reduced to criteria that can simply be applied or repeated. The boundaries between the political and the varied forms of the social demand a sensitivity to change and the unknown, none of which can be accessed in the states of absolute certainty that are derived from crises that do not repeat in the same ways. The messiness and nuances of modern life are held together by moving images, which insist that we know why we value what we demand and seek to protect.

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BRIAN PRICE is a professor in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto.

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FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES / PHILOSOPHY

The Sordid Image

The Naturalist Cinema of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego Agustín Zarzosa Drawing on the cinematic oeuvre of Ripstein and Garciadiego to reconceptualize the idea of the sordid The sordid is not an ideology, an affect, or even a form of taste or sensibility. It is, Agustín Zarzosa argues, an image and an evocation of the process of degradation. The Sordid Image: The Naturalist Cinema of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego offers the first sustained study of this pivotal filmmaker-screenwriter pair, drawing on their multidecade collaborations to reframe an enduring problem of film theory: how to represent marginalized people. Together, Ripstein and Garciadiego have constructed a recognizable cinematic world filled with social outcasts, characterized by self-degradation and unreason, and set within squalid environments. Inscribing the Ripsteinian universe within the literary and cinematic traditions of naturalism, this book theorizes the notion of the sordid to examine the partners’ unique and epoch-defining films. We can, Zarzosa contends, understand the sordid as a cinematic image, with its specific components and pleasures, recasting questions of authorship, mise-enscène, spectatorship, genre, and language.

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AGUSTÍN ZARZOSA is an associate professor of cinema studies at Purchase College. He is the author of Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

Land’s Language

On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia

Ethan Madarieta Presenting a new framework for understanding indigeneity and Indigenous peoples’ demands for territorial restitution Asserting that the work of critical theory today must attend to an epistemic locality rather than the universalizing impulse of its European intellectual genealogy, Ethan Madarieta makes central to his study the literatures and philosophy of the Mapuche peoples of Wallmapu (comprising south-central regions of what are currently known as Chile and Argentina). In doing so, he argues that the primary site of settler and Indigenous antagonisms is not “land,” as is ubiquitously asserted, but the overlapping and incommensurate conceptual orders within which land and body are constituted and accrue meaning. Land’s Language works to unsettle the stability and universality of how land and body are understood by calling into question what can or will be restored or returned and to whom. Drawing on Latin American and Mapuche historical, philosophical, and literary studies in dialogue with global critical theory and Anglophone critical Indigenous studies, this book demonstrates how Mapuche knowledge and thought, and that of each Indigenous nation across the planet, offer ways to live in ethical relation beyond that of the state and under the wider systemic hegemony of colonial racial capitalism.

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ETHAN MADARIETA is an assistant professor of English at Syracuse University, where he is on faculty in Native American and Indigenous studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies, and more.

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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Archaeology and Its Avatars

Science and Culture in Latin America Edited by Jorge Coronado and Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky Illuminating the impact of archaeology on the culture and politics of Latin America Since the mid-nineteenth century, archaeology has played a critical role in historicizing space and shaping cultural imaginaries. It has brought modern scientific practices into structured contact with ancient objects and landscapes, on the one hand, and modern Indigenous cultures in their material and historical complexity, on the other. Archaeology has thus served a variety of disciplines and practices, from history and anthropology to literary and social criticism and critical theory, and has actively animated practices quite distinct from itself, such as public policy, tourism, urban planning, art, literature, and nationbuilding. This volume provides a unique analysis of a disciplinary formation crucial to the study of cultural history and theory in Latin America. The contributors represent archaeologists and scholars from a variety of disciplines within the humanities, each of whom approaches archaeology as theory and praxis. Collectively, they map the differences and similarities between archaeological interventions and the ways in which the materiality, practice, and discourse of archaeology have been taken up as analytic, metaphor, and discursive strategy.

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JORGE CORONADO is the director of the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University. ALEXANDER HERRERA WASSILOWSKY is a professor in the Department of Art History of the Arts and Humanities School, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. www.nupress.northwestern.edu

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INDEX BY TITLE Amphibian…………….…………………..…….........................................13 Antigone as Political Philosophy…….……………..............................29 Archaeology and Its Avatars…………………………......………..………....33 Assayas and Political Seriousness…………………………..……………….30 Bisquick……………….....…………….….……...........................................7 Bless Me, Papi……………………………………………..……..……….............18 Brown Girls, Grown Up……………………………………………...……………..14 Circle Jerk and This American Wife…………………………………………....6 Come Apart, The……………………………………………….……………............3 Dearth, Volume 2…………………………..............................................24 Diaries of Judith Malina…………………………………….………….……20-22 Differential Diagnosis………………………………………...……………….....16 Essential Poems, The………………………………………………….…………..12 Falcon Experience, The…………………………….………........................19 Har Mar………………………………………………………………......................11 How We See the Gray……………..…………………………………………….....10 Ibsen Apocalypse……………………….…………………………………...........23 Investigations into the Literary Use of Language……………………....26 Land’s Language…………………………..………………………………...........32 Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices……………………...………………......…9 Masculine Births………………………………………………………………….....28 Missy……………....……......................................................................8 Novalis, Spinoza, and the Limits of Romantic Materialism…………27 Phenomenological Study of Religion, The……………………………….…25 Slow Burn……………………………………..…………………….....................17 Sordid Image, The……………………………...………………………..............31 That May Not Mean What You Think………………………………………......4 Turn, The……...……………………………………………………………..............15 When the Messenger is Hot………………………..………………………….....5

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BY AUTHOR, EDITOR, CONTRIBUTOR, OR TRANSLATOR Biareishyk, Siarhei………....………..…………………………………….…27 Bonifacio, Ayendy……………………………………………………………….18 Bredeson, Kate ………………………………..…………………………..20-22 Breslin, Michael………………………………………………………..…………6 Cavar………………………………………………………………....................16 Chen, Ching-In……………………………………………………...............17 Coronado, Jorge……………………………………………………………......33 Crane, Elizabeth……………………………….………………..………..…..4,5 Dominko, Tanja…………………………………………..........………………29 Feder, Rachel………………………......……………………………………….15 Felts, Susannah…………………………….………………………………….…3 Foley, Patrick…………………………………...…………………..……..........6 Friedman, Andrew…………………………....….....………………………..23 Gschwandtner, Christina M.…………………………….....…..…………25 Greenberg, Lynne………………………….………...…………………………28 Herrera Wassilowsky, Alexander …………………………………………33 Isler, Hilal………………………………………………………………….……....11 Jackson, Marcus…………………………………………………….....…..……9 Legaspi, Joseph O.………………………..……………………………………13 León, Rachel…………………...…………………….…………..................10 Lucas, Lisa……………………………………………………………………….....5 Lynes, Philippe…………………...……………..………………………………24 Macnamara, Katie …….…………………...……………………………...…19 Macnamara, Peggy…………………………………………………………..…19 Madarieta, Ethan…………………………………………………………....…32 Malina, Judith………………………...…………….…………….....……20-22 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice……………………………………...……………..26 Moder, Gregor…………………………………………………………………....29 O’Siadhail, Micheal………………………………….…………………………12 Pelsue, Rory…………………………..………………..……….....................6 Price, Brian………………………………………………………...….….........30 Price, C. Russell……………………………....……………………………....…7 Qadeer, Sima….…………………………………………………………….……14 Rodriguez, Cat………………………………………..……….…………….......6 Rao, Raghav…………………………...……….…………………………..........8 Sibert, Ariel…………………………………………………….......................6 Smyth, Bryan……………………………...……………………………..........26 Wang, Evan…………………………………...…….………………...……......17 Zarzosa, Agustin…………………………………….…………………...…….31

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