The Weekly Read is "The Robots Are Here!" by Jonathan J. Wroblewski. The article introduces Artificial Intelligence and Risk Assessments in Criminal Justice, a special issue of Federal Sentencing Reporter (37:3-4). Read it for free through 2/7/26: buff.ly/CP3MZxj

"Ocean, as Much as Rain" brings a collection of stories, poetry, and essays by leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser to an English-speaking audience. #Tibet #LiteratureInTranslation Read co-editor/translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain's introduction for free now: buff.ly/KTfsRmi

Save 30% on #NewBook "After Transformation" by Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social, which offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. #ReligiousStudies buff.ly/KJTRp60

As #UPWeek ends, our blog tour examines *where* university presses link scholarship to community—on campus, with libraries & independent bookstores, in local festivals & state-wide celebrations, via podcasts, through international partnerships—helping all to #ReadUP. https://bit.ly/4qH5cJV

Great post on book distribution! We are distributed by Ingram. bsky.app/profile/leek...

I still get compliments on the amazing work done by the @dukepress.bsky.social design team, who turned Ethiopian-Armenian artist Skunder Boghossian's "Night Flight of Dread and Delight" into a gorgeous cover that perfectly captures the spirit of the book. smarthistory.org/pan-africani...

In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg

Léopold Sédar Senghor, Writings on Politics - ed. Yohann C. Ripert, @dukepress.bsky.social, November 2025 www.dukeupress.edu/senghor

From bodybuilding powder to potato chips, protein is everywhere. Pre-order Protein: The Making of a Nutritional Superstar and be among the first to learn how and at what cost protein rose to the top of the dietary hierarchy. Pre-order here: www.dukeupress.edu/protein #protein #booklaunch #preorder

OH WOW! First sighting!! Where is it? and am I next to the Sainted Greer Langton??

40% off books -- including mine! dukeupress.edu/the-center-c...

Before the #LatinGRAMMYs tonight, we're revisiting this @latimes piece by P FKN R author Petra Rivera-Rideau on the snubs for producers Tainy and MAG for their work on @badbunnypr's album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS #DTMF buff.ly/dyeaRBg

Today marks ten years since the official release of my first book!

Major props to Ideas on Fire author Javier Wallace on the publication of Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social! dukeupress.edu/basketball-t... #IoFAuthors

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Goddess in the Mirror," by Tulasi Srinivas, which explores the dynamic and gendered world of beauty through the experiences of women in the intimate space of the contemporary Indian beauty salon. #SouthAsianStudies buff.ly/avvj2ww

Through December 25, save 40% on all books and journal issues when you use code NWSA25 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #NWSA2025 #WomensStudies #GenderStudies #FeministStudies #SexualityStudies buff.ly/Vvbqfqg

Today, the #UPWeek blog tour offers examples of *when* presses #TeamUP: new book series, a regional symposium on publishing, a staff retreat, author testimonial videos for campus-wide fundraising, long-standing journals & system-wide #openaccess for selected works. https://bit.ly/4qH5cJV

In "Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans," Nikita Dhawan makes the case for rescuing the best aspects of the Enlightenment in order to further the critical project of decolonization. #PostcolonialStudies #Decoloniality Read the intro now! buff.ly/2Lh0u9E

#NWSA2025 starts today in San Juan! Check out our blog for all the latest on how to browse and save on our books and journals in #WomensStudies #GenderStudies #FeministStudies #SexualityStudies buff.ly/VNWF7fC

“Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from #Tibet” By Tsering Woeser @woeser.bsky.social Available for Preorder @dukepress.bsky.social Beautiful cover art by Tenzing Rigdol, foreword by Pankaj Mishra. Publication date Feb 10, 2026! Info: highpeakspureearth.com/ocean-as-muc...

This morning I had a chance to talk to Emily Peck and Becky Pinsker about caregiving and how bad our society is at funding it. It's still airing around the country, but the recording will be here. Super grateful for this opportunity. @dukepress.bsky.social the1a.org/segments/the...

Oslo day 2 | 13th November 16:00 hours | Det Norske Teatret | ONLY SLIME | I'll be doing some of the rave related pieces, with beats | @dukepress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

"Orphaned Images," a special issue of the open access journal Trans Asia Photography (14:2) edited by Sabeena Gadihoke, is now available. Read the full issue paywall free: buff.ly/6m8IuAm

University presses provide essential infrastructure for vetting & curating humanities & social science scholarship, which universities rely on not only for the scholarly endeavor but for the promotion & tenure process. When a university shutters a press, it abdicates that responsibility.

How do university presses #TeamUP to flip more backlist content to #OpenAccess? By collaborating on special projects like Big Ten Open Books! Learn more in today's blog post: press.umich.edu/Blog/2025/11... #UPWeek @bigtenacademic.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

"Astutely observed, [The Human in Bits] combines inspired aesthetic analysis and political commitment. . . . " Check out a great review of "The Human in Bits" by Kris Cohen in The Brooklyn Rail: buff.ly/t1cvquO

It's #UniversityPressWeek! We're sharing how we #TeamUP with @mitpress.bsky.social to expand our #OpenAccess titles. buff.ly/ylseAnY

If you're still in London, you can catch a book discussion with Tithi Bhattacharya on her Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence ( @dukepress.bsky.social ) Thursday 11/13, 5-7pm GMT @soasuni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/soas-book-...

Official release day! 11/11 and I’m so excited this book is finally in the world with help from @dustign.bsky.social Dustin Mater for the beautiful cover and Ideas on Fire for the deep indexing. It’s about video games, and so much more. No spoilers.

Tomorrow, Nov. 12 is the virtual book launch for ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS (Duke University Press, 2025). Please join me at 6pm Central (7pm ET)! The event is part of the University of Minnesota’s History Book Club and you can register here: cla.umn.edu/history/news...

Really excited to be sharing work on Cornell's own trans histories tonight! As part of trans awareness week.

✨Hello friends, I'm launching #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social next month in Busan 🇰🇷 hosted by @thekpopprof.bsky.social at Pusan National University, Global Studies Department 📅 Dec 9 (Tues) 🕰️ 10:30am (GMT+9) 📍 PNU CEIT #203 & Zoom 📧 [email protected] (for Zoom link)

The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review. @dukepress.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ideas on Fire author Jodi Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social on the publication of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social! 🎉 dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon #IoFAuthors

Save 30% on #NewBook "Senghor: Writings on Politics," which brings Léopold Sédar Senghor’s most vital essays, speeches, and political writings to English-language readers for the first time. It's edited & translated by Yohann C. Ripert. buff.ly/lCkuIeY

The books featured in the #TeamUP Reading List spotlight how university presses explore, engage, advance & promote the latest ideas & scholarship. We've gathered together the titles from the presses represented by MNG here: buff.ly/3pDoqji @aupresses.bsky.social #ReadUP #UPWeek

It's gotten reviews in a bunch of places, including the Bangkok Post and other journalistic outlets. Just yesterday it received its first academic book review (from Perfect Beat). Upcoming talks related to it at Northern Illinois next week, IASPM in February, and UC-Berkeley in April.

"Bangkok after Dark" has been out for six months now. Having it loose in the world has been a consistent joy and I'm grateful to everyone who's read it and reached out. You can of course still pick it up, as well as read the Intro free, below. www.dukeupress.edu/bangkok-afte...

With higher ed funding under threat, university presses are tuning out the noise & sticking to their values, reports @publisherswkly.bsky.social. University presses remain committed to publishing works that will build a better society. Read more: https://bit.ly/43pEj33

We are sorry to learn of the death of Doris L. Garraway, author of "The Libertine Colony" and a contributor to the journal Small Axe. buff.ly/ttM0p1g

📘BOOK REVIEW📘 6⃣ Oscar de la Torre (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) reviews Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Perez (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2023). READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/43CrodY#TeamUP#UPWeek

i loved this review of my book by Richard Hylton!!! @dukepress.bsky.social academic.oup.com/arthistory/a...

New book from @dukepress.bsky.social: Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Lauren Derby www.dukeupress.edu/betes-noires...

Congratulations to Masi Asare, whose book "Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters" has won the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, given by the American Musicological Society. buff.ly/eBHl8pv buff.ly/3aEza27

A daring and controversial leader in the field of cultural studies, Social Text focuses attention on questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment, publishing key works by the most influential social and cultural theorists. Issue 164 is now available, view the TOC: buff.ly/YTU2Pwl

Save 30% on #NewBook "Bêtes Noires" by Lauren "Robin" Derby, which explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shapeshifting spirit demons. buff.ly/YW6Gvqs

In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, Raúl Alencar examines how foreign traders navigated opposition from local elites in mid-eighteenth-century Peru. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc#TeamUP #ReadUP

in such good company! spotted at the book fair at the Historical Materialism conference 🖤 @dukepress.bsky.social