Now online! Brian Smith (Nazarbayev University) reviews "The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025) by John Samuel Harpham www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The book is out with @harvardpress.bsky.social next week, so be sure to pre-order your copy now. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

It’s done! Just submitted the manuscript for my next book “The Latent Brain” In it I argue why and how we’ve shifted from single neurons to their collective, latent activity in our quest to understand how brains create minds Due early 2027 from @harvardpress.bsky.social

Happy birthday to the Bard! There's no better guide to the sonnets of William Shakespeare than Helen Vendler. This Poetry Month, save 30% on your copy of The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets with the code POE30: tinyurl.com/yc8nzsw3

The starry heavens above me, the moral law within me… and a great book before me. Happy birthday, Immanuel Kant.✨ To celebrate, we're reading Marcus Willaschek's Kant: A Revolution in Thinking—a @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year: tinyurl.com/5fm9zae6

Today in the ARB: “Trading at the Edge of Empires Francesco Carletti’s World, c. 1600” @harvardpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/trading-at-t...

Reading Sianne Ngai's "Our Aesthetic Categories", in preparation for our conversation with her on "Crisis and Critique Podcast" Please consider subscribing to our channel for past and future episodes: www.youtube.com/@crisisandcr... open.spotify.com/show/71HTMeq... @harvardpress.bsky.social

About to head to Philly for the @oah.org conference! If you'll be there, check out my book at the @harvardpress.bsky.social booth. And if you see me, come say hello, and I'll share the details for my Friday night book launch party (co-hosted with the inimitable @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social).

Paul Celan has been called the greatest German‑language poet of the twentieth century. Though much has been written about his contributions to poetics and Holocaust literature, very little has been written about Celan himself. Until now: tinyurl.com/y3z9px84 Coming June 9.

History lover? Call us Paul Revere, because we're letting you *know* about it. Now through the end of May, save 40% on selected history titles with the code OAH40: bit.ly/4sufqwB

Don’t miss this terrific conversation! New Yorker’s @adamgopnik.bsky.social interviews Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson. RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/vital-city... Presented by Vital City, NYU Wagner, @russellsagefdn.bsky.social | @harvardpress.bsky.social

Exciting that Anna Arno's biography of Paul Celan has been translated to English (by Soren Gauger). An important book about one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, as necessary now as ever before.

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Rishi Rajpopat, author of “Pāṇini’s Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar” @harvardpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz reviews “The Khan and the Unicorn: Mongol Empire and Qing Knowledge in the Making of World History” by Matthew V Mosca @harvardpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-khan-and...

Nicolas Guilhot, Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession - @harvardpress.bsky.social, October 2026 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Today in the ARB: “The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200-1600” by Raffaele Danna @harvardpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-craft-of...

Reading Sianne Ngai's "Ugly Feelings", as we prepare for our conversation with her on "Crisis and Critique Podcast" Please consider subscribing to our channel for past and future episodes: www.youtube.com/@crisisandcr... open.spotify.com/show/71HTMeq... @harvardpress.bsky.social

Paul Celan has been called the greatest German‑language poet of the twentieth century. Though much has been written about his contributions to poetics and Holocaust literature, very little has been written about Celan himself. Until now: tinyurl.com/y3z9px84 Coming June 9.

Looking forward to this Zoom discussion of my @harvardpress.bsky.social book “Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry” hosted by the Law and Political Economy Collective this Friday (4/10) at 3pm ET. Join us! www.politicaleconomylaw.org/content.aspx...

Congrats to our good friend Robert J. Sampson on his next book, "Marked by Time." Check it out on April 13 at 6:00 pm at the Cambridge Public Library. www.harvard.com/event/robert... @harvardpress.bsky.social

Congratulations to former #SHAFR President Andrew Preston (UVA) whose book, Total Defense, won the @smh-historians.bsky.social 2026 Distinguished Book Award!! www.smh-hq.org/awards/books... cc: @harvardpress.bsky.social

Then, YUPPIES by @dygottlieb.bsky.social with @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Timely new book from the Harvard Press: The man who wrote that “all men are created equal” envisioned America as a white republic that would banish Black people from its shores.

Today at 3 pm ET, join Tojo author Peter Mauch for an exclusive AMA on the r/askhistorians subreddit! Stay tuned: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Please join us in congratulating Beth Lew-Williams, whose book John Doe Chinaman has won the 2026 Bancroft Prize—one of the most prestigious awards in the field of American history.

The remarkable power of... paperwork? The Radical Spanish Empire is a new, groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World— A world where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through paper politics. Keep reading: bit.ly/46CYw73

What counts as China? Who counts as Chinese? An acclaimed historian’s bold response to these simple, vexed questions: bit.ly/3N8JkYC

In Habsburgs on the Rio Grande (@harvardpress.bsky.social), Raymond Jonas re-examines the Second Mexican Empire & argues that rather than being a historical sideshow, it was at the centre of historic power struggles. @barnabas-szabo.bsky.social reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/a-hab...

Author's Corner with Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash: *The Presidential Pardon: The Short Clause with a Long Troubled History*: thewayofimprovement.blog/2026/02/27/t... @harvardpress.bsky.social @uvalaw.bsky.social

Book Announcement!!! Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America’s Most Overlooked Resource is available for preorder and out June 2 with @harvardpress.bsky.social! a.co/d/0d1DwIVc

Finally: Audun Dahl explains: "Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing", in 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐹𝑖𝑥𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒; from @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Really honored to have my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book be part of an @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium! I am deeply grateful to @lpeproject.bsky.social colleagues for the opportunity, and to my respondents @maggor.bsky.social, @abalasub.bsky.social & Amy Cohen for engaging with my work. 🙏

I have a highly motivated student who came from a Christian classical education background, so we’ve developed an independent study and we’re going to be reading this brand new Augustine volume together. Looking forward to it!

Most of us believe that adverse childhood conditions negatively impact human development. In The Nature of Nurture, renowned developmental psychologist Jay Belsky challenges this interpretation, and offers an exciting alternative based on Darwinian theory.

Tonight! Star tribologist and author of Friction, Jennifer Vail, will appear on the r/AskScience subreddit for a special AMA. What are your burning questions about friction? Join us: www.reddit.com/r/askscience...

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin This Black History Month, we celebrate the authors, stories, and legacies that inspire us to think critically, live truthfully, and dream bigger: bit.ly/4tuOkqV

I want to read all of these!

Today in the ARB: Stephen Mercado reviews “Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War II General” by Peter Mauch @harvardpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/tojo-the-ris...

Can children with the same background have radically different futures just because they were born a few years apart? Yes. Marked by Time (@harvardpress.bsky.social) shows how social change and the "character trap" reshape lives in ways traditional risk models miss. (1/2)

Legal scholar Saikrishna Prakash has spent years examining one of the Constitution’s most sweeping and least-checked powers: the presidential pardon. We recently spoke with him about his research. His answers may surprise you: bit.ly/4taK27V

Antibiotic resistance is exploding in India. It's one of the most daunting public health challenges facing humanity. This sweeping analysis uncovers the causes of—and offers solutions to—the crisis. Coming March 10. Keep reading: bit.ly/4k5uE8O

Delighted about the publication of THE MAKING OF IRANIAN MODERNITY (Ilex via Harvard University Press), our Festschrift for the great Houchang E. Chehabi. @lsehy.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social @bupardeeschool.bsky.social

This book changed my life. I recommend it for all racialized writers, especially those of us writing the radical/revolutionary

Please join us in congratulating @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, whose riveting meditation on what it means to be an outsider in literature, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, is now a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award! 🥳🏅 About the book: tinyurl.com/ycyx8hry

TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY: WRITING AS AN OTHER makes it to the shortlist in the criticism category for the National Book Critics Circle Award, in the stellar company of many deserving finalists.

From snow tires to sneaker soles—from the first spark of fire to the frontiers of energy—friction is the invisible force that connects everyday life to man’s greatest achievements. Star tribologist Jennifer Vail delivers a spellbinding handbook to friction’s history and future: tinyurl.com/3md2x4v2

This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we're celebrating the authors, activists, and historians who have championed and enriched our understanding of civil rights and justice for all. For a limited time, save 25% on these titles with the code MLK25—keep reading below.

William Whyte, The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood - @harvardpress.bsky.social, August 2026 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

A copy of the NEW BOOK by 2018-19 CASBS fellow @mivich.bsky.social - "The Divisions of Rationalized Labor" - has entered the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚 Michelle's initial book ideas developed here 😏 About this @harvardpress.bsky.social book: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Happy New Year. We are so back. 😎 Discover our most anticipated new books—and enjoy a flash sale while it lasts: bit.ly/3YHTu4L