UC Press forthcoming author, Jacques Berlinerblau, weighs in @msnbc.com on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, and Jon Stewart's reaction. Stay tuned for more from Berlinerblau in his forthcoming book CAN WE LAUGH AT THAT?: Comedy in a Conflicted Age (March 2026): www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The new special issue 'Approaches from Latin America: Video Game Music and Sound' from the "Journal of Sound and Music in Games" (which we publish in partnership with @sssmg.bsky.social) is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/issue/6/3

At the UC Press Blog, FQ editor J. M. Tyree introduces Adrian Schober’s retrospective on Pauline Kael in FQ’s latest issue! UC Press unlocked Kael’s greatest hits for FQ, including her takedown of auteur theory. Read “Reverse Weather Vane”: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/p... @ucpress.bsky.social

FQ‘s new issue features free articles (link below)! 🍿 Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson’s Deobjectification Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael’s Romantic Criticism Matthew Sorrento interviews Errol Morris Editor J. M. Tyree on the films of the quarter online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/1

We've just added new advance articles to the journal Music Perception's site. online.ucpress.edu/mp/advance-a...

In celebration of the @sah1365.bsky.social's fifth annual virtual conference, we've removed the paywall from the current issue of the "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians." Access it here: online.ucpress.edu/jsah/issue/8... #SAHVirtual2025

We invite you to read the current issue of JSAH for free online for a limited time. We've removed the paywall to coinicide with @sah1365.bsky.social's virtual conference. #SAHVirtual2025 www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/j...

Winner of the @pcb-aha.bsky.social's Robert W. Cherny Prize, Iker Saitua explores the history of which immigrants have counted as "skilled" and which have not and why. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/l...

Now available: #JSAH September issue 2025. View it online at ow.ly/u6Z450WPV5h On the cover: 12-sided rotunda of the Payne Family Native American Center represents the twelve Tribes in Montana (photo by Daniel J. Glenn, courtesy of 7 Directions Architects/Planners).

Cover reveal! FQ’s fall issue arrives soon with amazing stuff…

New free article! “Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft” explores the legacy of her star turn in Simon West’s 2001 blockbuster (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), connecting it to fascinating shifts in women as top-billed, blockbuster action stars around the turn of the century. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Delighted to sit down w/ Steven Levitt Freakonomics co-author & discuss vaccines & talk about my upcoming book Fair Doses on his podcast People I (mostly) Admire. He is a super host & was shocked to learn his own very personal vaccine story on the pod. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Thanks to the @nytimes.com for featuring @marionnestle.bsky.social in their article on the latest White House health report: "This wording is vague, Dr. Nestle said, and suggests that federal agencies may ask food companies to police themselves": www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...

Please help us congratulate our recent award-winning authors! 👏 🎉 @stephcanizales.bsky.social @irisdunkle.bsky.social, @ievajusionyte.bsky.social, @bshestakofsky.bsky.social

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.

Also in our new issue: Junjia Ye on precarious migrant labor in Singapore, Yoonkyung Lee (‪@utoronto.ca‬) on the South Korean martial law crisis, and Charlene Makley (‪@reed.edu‬) on an ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

Congrats to Hagiography Society Article Award winner, Dina Boero, who tells us about her award-winning research into stylites, Christian saints who lived for years and even decades on top of columns. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/s...

Check out the new Fall 2025 issue of "California History" online now. online.ucpress.edu/ch/issue/102/3

The new Summer 2025 issue of the "Journal of Autoethnography" is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/joae/issue/6/3

We're pleased to announce the launch of "Music and Data," edited by @thomashodgson.org and Rujing Stacy Huang, publishing in 2026. We interviewed the journal's editors for our blog. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...

I super excited to be launching this new journal - Music and Data - with the peerless Stacy Huang. Website to launch v soon!

🎊 New user spotlight: We welcome Music and Data, published by @ucpress.bsky.social, to the Scholastica community (now using our peer review system)! The journal is led by EICs @thomashodgson.org and Rujing Stacy Huang. Learn more: buff.ly/UmPYRK3

Read our blog interview with historian Katherine Marino, whose "Pacific Historical Review" article—with timely relevance for today—was recently honored by @pcb-aha.bsky.social. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/d...

New free article! 😍 In this article, Trung M. Nguyen interrogates the issue of looted non-Western cultural objects by examining the performances of two women: Lara Croft and Sophiline Cheam-Shapiro, renowned Cambodian artist and dancer. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Now available for preorder from our editor-in-chief @redprof.bsky.social ! Out 9/9/25 from @ucpress.bsky.social. www.ucpress.edu/books/slaver...

The best kind of pub day notification. So many thanks to @kerriarsenault.bsky.social, who shaped this book in pivotal ways. @ucpress.bsky.social @sciencehistory.org

The Weight of the White Coat: Latinos Navigating American Medicine (@ucpress.bsky.social) | New book by UC Irvine Chicano/Latino studies professor & department chair Glenda M. Flores explores the personal & professional journeys of Latina/o doctors @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Congratulations to @osullilu.bsky.social for her ALAA Award Honorable Mention! Learn more about her research on the @ucpress.bsky.social blog. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/m...

Free article! 🙂 Lara Croft has been viewed as a feminist icon for decades but her deep-seated colonial bias has often been ignored. In this article, Souvik Mukherjee explores the problematic coloniality of Lara as the 'tomb raider.' online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Niche pro tip for the impatient: preordering books thru @ucpress.bsky.social website often means your copy arrives a few days before official publication date. Anyway excited to read @alicelovejoy.bsky.social’s TALES OF MILITANT CHEMISTRY: THE FILM FACTORY IN A CENTURY OF WAR

Best cover, or *bestest* cover? Get yourself Jenny Barry's new @ucpress.bsky.social book, with Fuseli's The Nightmare put to excellent use

Wrapping up your summer reading? Check out this new book by ASA member Joel Best ‪@udelaware.bsky.social‬ in which he evaluates how facts emerge from our social worlds and encourages readers to approach disputes in critical new ways. @ucpress.bsky.social‬

In urgent times, UC Press publishes ideas that matter to champion new voices, expand global reach, and amplify bold scholarship that shapes discourse and drives change. Dive into the UC Press 2025 Annual Report: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...

Thanks to @timemagazine.bsky.social for running this op-ed from @mlheggeness.bsky.social on Swiftynomics and Taylor Swift's new album: time.com/7309943/tayl...

And that's it for us! Special thanks to @asanews.bsky.social for putting on a wonderful conference and to all of the #ASA2025 attendees! Our ASA website is open so you can still save 40% on any book we had on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a... See you next year in NYC for #ASA2026!

Thanks to @nytimes.com for quoting @dfarber1950.bsky.social, author of CONTESTED GROUND: How to Understand the Limits of Presidential Power, in their piece on Trump building a "maximalist" government: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

Like the Windy City of Chicago, our time sure blew by at #ASA2025! We're here until noon today, but our ASA website and your chance to get 40% off the books we have on display will be up for a bit longer: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

We're excited about the Journal of American Musicological Society's new video interview series with authors. Check out the first interviews and read the accompanying articles for free online for a limted time. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

[email protected] editor Krishnendu Ray is interviewed about street food (a topic he has written on for the journal) by "Doing Sociology." doingsociology.org/2025/08/10/s...

"There are many people doing amazing work to create a culture of caring in various industries and that’s something to remember in these difficult times." In a time hope is needed, Nicole Karlis' YOUR BRAIN ON ALTRUISM provides that much needed dose. Read our Q&A for #ASA2025:

FREEDOM TRAIN author Cedric de Leon asks: "What lessons do we learn about the dynamics of interracial solidarity when we start with the lived experience of Black people?" Read his piece for #ASA2025 about how Black people drove the interracial labor movement:

"Sexual violence is an ordinary, predictable, and devastating part of college for women and queer, transgender, and nonbinary people. But it shouldn’t be." Star author Nicole Bedera talks to us about Title IX in her book ON THE WRONG SIDE: tinyurl.com/58cp4tyw #ASA2025

GAZA EXPOSES THE BANKRUPTCY OF WESTERN LIBERALISM Interview @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/08/gaza...

Thanks to @cnn.com for hosting @mlheggeness.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming book SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy (January 2026), to discuss why women are leaving the US workforce: video.snapstream.net/Play/8dE163e...

Morning, #ASA2025 attendees! We're here at the booth until 4PM for all of your Sociology book needs! Our ASA website is still the place to visit if you want to grab 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

"Throughout the book, we turn to the stories of individual and collective resistance in order to illuminate reproductive justice thinking and practice." ABORTION AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE authors Marlene Fried and Loretta Ross on how we fight: tinyurl.com/ycyfv4ay #ASA2025

"Modern development is rushing forward with great force, and the best we can do is give it a push in the right direction." For #ASA2025, OPEN SECRECY author Isak Ladegaard spoke with us about the digital underworld. tinyurl.com/62fczhbn

How did the antiabortion movement get to where we are today? For #ASA2025, Carol Mason, author of FROM THE CLINICS TO THE CAPITOL sat down for a Q&A with us and gives context to the current moment we're in: tinyurl.com/2xku2wyx

We are incredibly fortunate to have an embarrassment of riches in the form of #ASA2025 author content. We'll be highlighting a few articles throughout the conference, but visit our UC Press blog and check out all of our amazing content:

We heard that a certain high-profile lawyer was having a bit of a "pierogi problem" himself... Coincidentally, we have a new book that looks at the reinvention of Polish cuisine. Stop by our #ASA2025 booth and check it out!