Today's guest blog post is from artist, poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer Tad Richards. Tad's new book, Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949–1972, is available now. sunypress.edu/Blog/2026/Li... #ReadUP #music #blogpost

The fourth edition of Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory offers a topical, art-practice focused anthology that caters to diverse interests in aesthetics. tinyurl.com/yc86h5f6 #NewBookTuesday #ReadUP #art #philosophy #aesthetics

This week's #EditorsPick is from Richard Carlin. It's the first biography dedicated to the life and cultural contributions of actor, writer, and producer George "Nash" Walker, who revolutionized Black American theatre during the early twentieth century. tinyurl.com/yrfjmery #BlackHistoryMonth

"…[a] a superb study, which provides many exciting avenues for future scholarship." — AJS REVIEW #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/38766n93 #JewishStudies #JewishMysticism #Kabbalah #Religion

Richard F. Hamm discusses his new book, Confronting Racism: tinyurl.com/5h8k2myh @albany.edu #authorinterview #ReadUP

Alan Via introduces readers to a mostly unknown group of Catskill peaks on public land in addition to some lightly used trails. Via refers to these places as "the Lostkills" as they include off-the-beaten-path hikes to smaller mountain summits. tinyurl.com/57dw4fdd #ForthcomingFriday

Animist Poetics is now available in paperback! The code SNPS26 will get you 30% off through the @sunypress.bsky.social website.

Our latest guest blog post is from John Tonello, whose new book Daring to Run: How I Ran an Outsider's Campaign for Mayor of Elmira, New York, and Won will publish next month and is available to preorder now. tinyurl.com/yc85xr37 #blogpost #ReadUP #biography

Segalovitz’s How Close Reading Made Us (pub @sunypress.bsky.social) extends this argument by tracing the global circulation of close reading as a technique of the self. Her review essay is open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social

In our new Comparative Literature issue: Yael Segalovitz examines 4 recent books on close reading, asking how they converge on a bold though often implicit premise: that close reading operates through the bodily and cognitive training of the reader. muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

JazzTimes reviews Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949–1972: tinyurl.com/y46c3b5t #bookreview #ReadUP #music

For #BlackHistoryMonth, save 30% on our African American Studies and African Studies titles with code SBHM26 when you order at tinyurl.com/bdd4scvu. #ReadUP #africanamericanstudies

New book recalls lost neighborhood’s role in abolition movement: www.silive.com/news/2026/02...

With Toeing the Line, Nina M. Moore offers the first up-close look at how Supreme Court affirmative action rulings approximated America’s racial politics between 1978 and 2023. tinyurl.com/3ryka3b3 #NewBookTuesday #ReadUP #AmericanHistory #PoliticalScience

Happy day of birth, paperback! Note a much more cost effective price tag, which can be reduced by another 30% on @sunypress.bsky.social website with the code SNPS26 sunypress.edu/Books/F/From... Message me with any questions!

On Friday, author Henry Sapoznik stopped by WNYC's All Of It with Alison Stewart to discuss the hidden history of Yiddish life in New York. Listeners called in to share their favorite memories of Yiddish New York history. tinyurl.com/5x8yenpv #nyc #listenup

"...inside that niche is an explosion of delicious details, color, and personalities ... It was a connection to a history that has thrived, even under the most difficult of conditions." A nice recommendation for The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City! tinyurl.com/4xpa9uy7

This week's #StaffPick is from Promotions Manager Michelle Alamillo. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around is a powerful, inspiring look at the life and legacy of Barbara Smith—organizer, writer, scholar, and trailblazer of Black feminism. tinyurl.com/2kfm75cp #ReadUP

"This book is a welcome and much needed contribution to Islamic Studies, and it is particularly beneficial for both graduate and undergraduate courses on Sufism, Islamic spirituality, and Islamic civilizations." — JOURNAL OF SUFI STUDIES #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/25jtz4ay #Islam #Sufism

What happens to the world after someone dies? In this #OneToOne Q&A, Harris B. Bechtol, author of A DEATH OF THE WORLD, explores how grief reshapes time, space, and memory—making mourning a lifelong journey. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/5ce7dcux #Grief #Philosophy #Literature

Tune in to @wnyc.org today at 12:30 to listen to Henry Sapoznik discuss The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City! www.wnyc.org

This volume includes almost all the essays, lectures, and book chapters that Christopher Bruell published during a remarkable scholarly career that spanned more than four decades. Available in paperback this April. tinyurl.com/mwbp7hcp ##ForthcomingFriday

On 28 Jan 2026 I led a workshop at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on 'Time Inheritance Mapping—how time shapes decisions and what to do about it'. Hosted by Imperial As One. Thanks to Ada Mau, PhD, and team! @sunypress.bsky.social @durhameducation.bsky.social

"...Adams’s work awakens an irresistible urge to step outside, listen, and reflect on the living presence of nature." A Wild and Sacred Call, reviewed at Reading Religion: tinyurl.com/4dxf6695 #bookreview #ReadUP

Celebrating 60 years of SUNY Press! We've gathered our 60 bestselling titles from across our entire history. From Being and Time to This Bridge Called My Back, these books represent rigorous scholarship, diverse voices, and enduring ideas. tinyurl.com/y8cp8btb #SUNYPress60 #ReadUP

We are delighted to celebrate Patrick Fuliang Shan, Professor of History at Grand Valley State University, whose book LI DAZHAO has won the 2025 Academic Excellence Award presented by the Chinese Historians in the United States. #WinnerWednesday #ReadUP tinyurl.com/36rtktws #ChineseHistory

Achille Castaldo, author of the new book Ascetic Images, pursues "a method of reading crafted to reveal the operations of the ideological machine embedded in every text, which constantly attempts to make such content invisible." Read more at tinyurl.com/4x98wu8c #blogpost #ReadUP

My piece in @uk.theconversation.com has just been published! Enjoy! 😊 @sunypress.bsky.social @durhameducation.bsky.social @durhamchina.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @rilleraaper.bsky.social @solgamsu.bsky.social @chenchenzhang.net theconversation.com/another-kind...

"[Sapoznik] does for place what he’s done for klezmer music and Yiddish radio: endow it with presence and weight." An excellent review of The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City at The Jewish Review of Books: tinyurl.com/4mfsxhep #ReadUP #nyc #bookreview

Now available in paperback, Haunting the World: Essays on Film After Perkins and Cavell argues that the experience of the ordinary film viewer and the investigations of the film scholar or film philosopher are not necessarily so far apart. tinyurl.com/y4bvzakd #NewBookTuesday #filmstudies #ReadUP

Thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book with @sunypress.bsky.social: Do You Know That You Have Black Friends? I’m looking forward to sharing this work—a reeducation on race—with you!

This week's #EditorsPick is courtesy of Senior Acquisitions Editor Michael Rinella. Children, Democracy, and Education aims to critically examine and counteract adult-centric takes on children in democracy and retheorizes their position and role within contemporary democracy. tinyurl.com/mtnu3p94

"…ATLANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS offers new ways of thinking about elites as a broad and heterogeneous group by disaggregating their formal political power and informal socioeconomic capital within a world system." — JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/nhcb9be6

Forthcoming in paperback this spring, Plato's Politics of Passion offers an original reading of three Platonic dialogues concerned with the soul, tyranny, self-knowledge, and the beautiful. tinyurl.com/2p9tk5ee #ForthcomingFriday #ReadUP #newinpaperback

January is a time to align aspirations with well-being for personal and intellectual growth. This curated collection draws from six decades of scholarship—from breathwork to Black women's self-care practices to psychedelics: tinyurl.com/75ntfa7j Save 30% with code SMBS26 through January 31st.

Looking forward to giving a talk on 'The Time Inheritors' at @soasuni.bsky.social China Institute next Monday (26 Jan) between 5 pm and 6:30 pm. In this talk I will also introduce the Time Inheritance Mapping Tool. Register and see you soon! @sunypress.bsky.social www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

What if yoga were a method for studying consciousness? In this #OneToOne Q&A, Giulia Moiraghi explores yoga, phenomenology, and embodiment—challenging object-centered views of mind. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/r9a57np9 #Philosophy #Yoga #Consciousness

I love it! #BlackSky #FoodSky CULINARIA: Women of Color Rewriting our Food Stories Edited by Farha Ternikar, Janaka B. Lewis, and Stephanie Y. Evans SUNY PRESS, AUGUST 2026 @sunypress.bsky.social culinariastories.net/book

CULINARIA: WOMEN OF COLOR REWRITING OUR FOOD STORIES (SUNY, August 2026). Contents and details online at culinariastories.net Grateful to be a part of this life writing community in support of Farha Ternikar's vision and Janaka Lewis's work to expand networks through transnational food studies.

I am really touched and encouraged by Dr Linyao Wang's (University of Reading) in-depth and apt review of 'The Time Inheritors', which has been published at International Studies in Sociology of Education. @sunypress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Ultimately, Listening to Prestige is an essential addition to any jazz library. Tad Richards has done more than just list sessions; he has mapped the soul of a label that was willing to be messy, immediate, and profoundly human." A nice review from Skope: tinyurl.com/bdzjbmxs #bookreview #ReadUP

While drawn from over 250 years of history, Revolutionary New York's stories resonate today, where some of the same issues linger, though in different form. New York seems to be always undertaking, in the midst of, or finishing some sort of revolution. tinyurl.com/trwp27kf #NewBookTuesday #ReadUP

Thanks @yifannnnn.bsky.social 4 articulating so powerfully the significance & potential applications of the time inheritance concept! Such an honor to have 'The Time Inheritors' @sunypress.bsky.social reviewed in Time and Society - the flagship journal on time! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This week's #StaffPick, from Tanja Eise, Director of Marketing and Sales, is Blacks in Niagara Falls. A meticulously researched history which offers essential insights into the Black experience in a place we don't often hear about - a small city in upstate NY. tinyurl.com/y9u5p46a #ReadUP

"Luciani's volume gives a new life to Heredia's texts, this time in a hemispheric canon." — NEW YORK HISTORY #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/tw3w9eb7 #History #LatinAmericanStudies #Literature #C19 #NewYorkHistory #Poetry

Peabody Award–winning musician and archivist Henry Sapoznik reflects on a lifetime preserving the language, music, and stories of Yiddish America: tinyurl.com/3awhd8nn #authorinterview #ReadUP #nyc

Author and gadfly Leslie Fiedler was one of the best-known names in twentieth-century literary criticism. In this book, his longtime friends and colleagues Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian present their memories of Fielder as a master storyteller. tinyurl.com/5n938jua #ForthcomingFriday #ReadUP

Anthony Cushing discusses his coedited volume Matter of North: Essays on Glenn Gould and The Idea of North, which is now available in paperback. tinyurl.com/22txexvh #ReadUP #interview #thursdaythoughts

As we celebrate our 60th anniversary in 2026, we’re proud to mark six decades of publishing innovative scholarship and essential New York regional titles. Browse our exciting list of new titles for Spring 2026 at tinyurl.com/m4j283vy. #newbooks #spring #ReadUP

Christopher Jain Miller and Cogen Bohanec recently talked with New Books Network about their forthcoming book, Engaged Jainism: Critical and Constructive Studies of Jain Social Engagement (March 2026). tinyurl.com/ycscynve #podcast #ReadUP #jainism