What can #baseball teach us about #democracy? In DEMOCRACY AT THE BALLPARK, Thomas Bunting shows how fans’ experiences—community, equality, shared meaning—shape political life & how we understand ourselves & our democracy. #WPSA2026 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/4uhpy9vm #PoliticalTheory #SportsAndPolitics

The Ritz with a Shvitz is a compelling story of dreams and reality, greed and betrayal, corruption and reform and is a microcosm of that era of Tammany's oppressive control of New York City government. Preorder now at tinyurl.com/yp5pb2sd #ForthcomingFriday #ReadUP

For Arab American Heritage Month we're highlighting books on Arab thinkers, politics, and culture. Browse the book collection and save 30% with code SAAHP26 through the end of the month: tinyurl.com/3nuc8xyh #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #ReadUP

Calm, cool, careful visions of the Pacific Northwest: Vancouver poet Mary Barnard celebrated - tinyurl.com/weapatzh #poetrymonth #marybarnard #ReadUP

The Brooklyn Rail reviews Zlochov, My Home: Poems by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern: tinyurl.com/3wwzz6mv #bookreview #poetrymonth

#WPSA2026 Explore how music shapes politics, identity, and resistance. From “The Star-Spangled Banner” to BLM & Standing Rock, ANTHEMS shows how songs challenge power and redefine democracy. Nancy Love rethinks sovereignty, justice, and belonging in the U.S. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/3ybnwkht

This month's 60 for 60 list is one of our favorites to share: 60 Staff Favorites, chosen by the people who helped shepherd these books into the world—some of whom have been at SUNY Press for 30 and 40 years. Each title comes with a story. tinyurl.com/yca6ewtb #SUNYPress #60for60 #60thanniversary

New review of #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork "giving readers a sense of how contemporary New Yorkers viewed the urban world around them." artsfuse.org/326490/april... @sunypress.bsky.social @brooklynsocial.bsky.social

We are saddened to share the news of the passing of Meredith Caprice Trexler Drees, coeditor of Politeia: New Readings in the History of Philosophy with Anne J. Mamary. She will be deeply missed by colleagues and readers around the world. Our thoughts are with her family. tinyurl.com/43dhchay

We’re thrilled to celebrate our eleven incredible finalists for the 2025 #FOREWORDINDIES Book of the Year Awards! Congrats to all of our authors & editors whose work continues to inspire, inform, & challenge readers everywhere. Stay tuned, winners will be announced in June! #WinnerWednesday

In Zen Time, Raji C. Steineck provides a robust contextualization of Dōgen's Uji, the most renowned text on time in Zen Buddhism. tinyurl.com/424pvzmr #NewBookTuesday

This week's #StaffPick is from Jenn Bennett. When I Am Italian offers wonderful storytelling by author Joanna Claps Herman about the Italian American experience, raising the central question of this book: To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian? tinyurl.com/32xu7cmm

What if gaslighting didn’t start in modern psychology, but in the Victorian Empire? VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING traces how power, “madness,” and false narratives were used to control women and colonized subjects, and why it still matters. #SCMS26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/26pr7kyn

#SCMS26 discover a bold look at how cinema reveals, and resists, power over life itself. From Farhadi to Loznitsa, Wang, and Jude, THE BIOPOLITICAL TURN IN WORLD CINEMA traces biopolitics across global film. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/34dwnydx #FilmStudies #WorldCinema #Biopolitics

THE WHITE INDIANS OF MEXICAN CINEMA uncovers how Golden Age Mexican films (1930s–1950s) crafted a striking racial paradox: Whiteness performed as Indigeneity. #SCMS26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/s5s59rfs #FilmStudies #MexicanCinema #DecolonialStudies #RaceAndRepresentation

New in paperback in May, CELLULOID BABEL is a transnational intellectual history of cinema’s early dream: a universal language that could speak to everyone, everywhere. #SCMS26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/3scr2f97

"…[an] erudite, ambitious work. One leaves this book with a feeling that he has received an education—not just about Strauss's career but also about some of the most important intellectual junctions of the twentieth century." — JOURNAL OF RELIGION #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/2t3rxzwp

As part of our #60thAnniversary celebrations, we’re revisiting a thought-provoking #OneToOne #AuthorQ&A first published in 2015. Marti Lybeck, author of DESIRING EMANCIPATION, explores the shifting meanings of gender, sexuality, & identity in pre-Nazi Germany & beyond. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/msm4pz9m

#ASEH2026 may be ending, but our conference discounts continue through April 28, 2026! From climate change to environmental justice, explore our latest and recent books in environmental studies, and save 30% with code SASEH26. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/2wea42hn #EnvironmentalHistory

#SCMS26 What if cinema could rethink who shapes the city? SEEING SYMPHONICALLY by Erica Stein shows how avant-garde films (1939–64) reimagined NYC, challenging urban planning through experimental form. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yskk3n83 #FilmStudies #UrbanStudies #AvantGarde

REMNANTS OF REFUSAL explores how French & Chinese films & literary works respond to erased historical trauma through feminist affect, tracing melancholy, ambivalence, & exhaustion as powerful modes of refusal. #SCMS26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yj4mrevx #FilmStudies #ComparativeLiterature #FeministTheory

Great to see Hannah Holtzman at SCMS! Her book is Through a Nuclear Lens: France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima. tinyurl.com/yje6nk8u #scms2026 #seeninchicago #authorphoto #filmstudies @hannahholtzman.bsky.social

Seen at SCMS in Chicago: Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf with her new book Remnants of Refusal! Preorder the paperback at tinyurl.com/55ehp5yz. #scms2026 #filmstudies

Luca Barattoni stopped by the booth at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies meeting in Chicago! Here he is with his new book, The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema, which you can read more about at tinyurl.com/r27vywf8! #scms2026 #filmstudies

BEYOND EMANCIPATION rethinks freedom before the Civil War, highlighting enslaved people who escaped yet remained in the South. Through writers like Douglass, Jacobs, & Delany, it shows how “small acts” reshape ideas of freedom. #CEA2026 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/5n73dhdw #AmericanLiterature #BlackStudies

Headed to #SCMS26 in Chicago? Stop by the SUNY Press booth and explore our new releases in cinema and media studies. Not attending? Browse our virtual booth and still save 30% with code SCMS26 through April 29, 2026. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/57cek79w #MediaStudies #FilmStudies

#CEA2026 What moves thought in restless times? New in paperback in May, THINKING UNREST revisits German Idealism through figures like Fichte, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling, tracing how “unrest” shapes philosophy from its origins to today. #LookItUP tinyurl.com/2vxyrvw7

Forthcoming 6/26, THE DIGITIZED CAMPUS explores how AI & #bigdata are transforming higher education, unlocking new opportunities for student success & research, while raising critical questions about privacy, ethics, & institutional responsibility. #CEA2026 #LookItUP tinyurl.com/3rs6a672 #HigherEd

Dressing for England illuminates the interplay of gender, fashion, and nationalism in Victorian literature and culture. Preorder the paperback at tinyurl.com/pmcfru6j #ForthcomingFriday #ReadUP

Visit our virtual #CEA2026 booth and explore our new and recent titles in literature and language arts. Whether you're teaching, researching, or writing, we’ve got something for you. Save 30% with code SCEA26 through April 28, 2026. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/2fxmmvm7 #CollegeEnglish #EnglishStudies

#SCMS26 What if objects in film aren’t just props, but participants in meaning-making? FROM DOORS TO SCREENS explores how doors, clocks, gramophones, and video screens shape cinematic expression as active, discursive agents. #LookItUP tinyurl.com/53kfb3u6 #FilmStudies #MediaTheory

#SCMS26 discover a powerful exploration of Franco-Japanese cinematic exchange shaped by nuclear history & memory. THROUGH A NUCLEAR LENS traces a transnational film cycle that redefines how cinema captures nuclear uncertainty, everyday life, & our sense of time & space. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/mr35zk7c

What a fabulous resource on the war in Iran from the @aupresses.bsky.social! @georgetownup.bsky.social's contribution to this effort, acquired and published by my colleague Don Jacobs, can be found here: bit.ly/4tg10kO.

Our donation page is now live. As we mark 60 years of publishing scholarship that matters, your support helps us keep saying yes to the books that challenge, inform, and transform understanding. tinyurl.com/yd3yhry6. #60thAnniversary #SUNYPress #ScholarlyPublishing

#Kirkus review of my book has arrived: "Historian Goldman’s ambitious book takes a detailed dive into New York City over 10 years.... This complex city, he writes, was a rich site of “acceleration and deceleration.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... @sunypress.bsky.social #nyitlibrary

#SeriesSpotlight: The SUNY series in Gender Theory explores the complex knot of gender, sex, and sexuality. It welcomes critical genealogies, new terminologies, and perspectives from critical race theory, disability studies, ecological justice, and decolonial studies. Browse at tinyurl.com/yjknmcfk.

Shaping Students of Color from Preschool to Graduate School illuminates how family-student interactions enhance the educational achievement of students of color/first-generation academics and applies these lessons to institutional goals. #NewBookTuesday tinyurl.com/4h8vyu6p

BOOK NEWS: Examining maternal love and power in American fiction *Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in US Literature* Now in paperback from @sunypress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/book... #WomensHistoryMonth #books

"Listening to Prestige comes to life as very few books do." Another excellent review of Listening to Prestige! Read the full review at tinyurl.com/4e8tk6jz #bookreview #MusicMonday #ReadUP

This week's #EditorsPick is from Senior Acquisitions Editor Richard Carlin. The Whole World Goes to Hunter tells the story of the New York City college that opened doors for generations of women in the arts and sciences. tinyurl.com/zd7nehat #ReadUP #HigherEducation

We are thrilled to announce a partnership with Avicenna Partnership Ltd. This is a strategic move for SUNY Press to expand its reach into the Middle East and North Africa, optimizing access and sales growth, by way of Avicenna Partnership Ltd. Read more at tinyurl.com/msuf6djw

And...we are up on Google Books; congrats, @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & @sunypress.bsky.social! Here's to our nxt 500!

my upcoming book website from @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/R/Revo...

Author copies have arrived! It's a beautiful book with a group of wonderful contributors! Massive thanks to SUNY for the production work. Out in April... Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature.

"Throughout the book, several gems provide thought-provoking ideas and challenges." — @choicereviews.bsky.social #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/9hyuxcbh #Education #PoliticalCommunication #PublicPolicy

Check out Lisa Jean Moore's joint review of Akiko Busch's "From the Millpond to the Sea" and Moira Fitzgibbons's "Drawn by the River," published in 2025 by @sunypress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #waterhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

This landmark volume brings together a new foundational text by Apollon, seven original essays, including by Apollon's longtime collaborators Danielle Bergeron and volume coeditor Lucie Cantin, and an interview with Apollon. Preorder the paperback at tinyurl.com/324vt54y #ForthcomingFriday #ReadUP

Listen to WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Bruce W. Dearstyne, editor and author, about the new book Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change: tinyurl.com/557mf2k2 #newyorkhistory #ReadUP

NYC! I'm doing a @lecturesontap.bsky.social on April 20 in a secret location. Reach out for details. The idea is: I talk, you drink. I'll be presenting on immigration (immigrant communities, suppression, and deportations) in 1920s NYC. Part of the launch of #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork

“Gaslighting” is more than a buzzword. In this #OneToOne Q&A, Kelly Oliver reframes it as power-laden “reality management” that undermines credibility and self-trust, operating both interpersonally and structurally. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/3xydhusz #AuthorQandA #Gaslighting #FeministPhilosophy