Grateful to see Something Between Us make this 2025 book list from Spain’s El Diario newspaper. www.eldiario.es/132_c4276a

I spent a great few days in Tokyo and Akita University with some of Japan's leading experts on the Middle East and terrific students to talk about my new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, Enduring Hostility.

📚❄️ ☕ Looking for a winter break read? Explore APARC books on topical issues in Asian affairs and U.S.-Asia relations, featuring policy-relevant research and analysis by our scholars. Get our publications via @stanfordpress.bsky.social buff.ly/6jW4i3N

To celebrate wrapping up the year we are taking today and tomorrow to spotlight some notable highpoints with an awards roundup Visit our website for the full list:

The Essential China Reading List of 2025 by @semafor.com. With books by Patrick McGee, Dan Wang, Eva Dou, Emily Feng, me, and others www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

To celebrate wrapping up the year we are taking today and tomorrow to spotlight some notable highpoints with an awards roundup Visit our website for the full list:

I’ve been talking about my book for a while, but this was a special experience: Faithful Politics, co-hosted by a liberal activist + a conservative pastor, both terrific listeners + conversationalists. We talked about fear + trust, otherness + vulnerability. www.faithfulpolitics.us/podcast-1/ep...

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Joseph Torigian, author of “The Party’s Interests Come First” @stanfordpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Best China Books of 2025 @chinabooksreview.com: great list with @emilyzfeng.bsky.social Dan Wang @evadou.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social Barbara Demick and others. I just ordered the book by Minxin Pei. Huge thanks to @vicshih.bsky.social for including me chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/b...

Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a pillar of the postwar order, & the world's leading development institution. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the World Bank's pivotal role in the Cold War in Latin America https://ow.ly/rYFf50XK2kj

In Special Damage, Jessica Lake offers a comparative legal history of gendered hate speech, verbal abuse, and sexual harassment across 19th-century America, Australia, and England. #ReadUP https://www.sup.org/books/law/special-damage

My courtesy copies arrived in the mail today. I'm hopeful that this book can contribute meaningfully to the conversation on this difficult, regrettable, and profoundly challenging subject. I would appreciate you sharing this with anyone who might be interested. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a pillar of the postwar order, & the world's leading development institution. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the World Bank's pivotal role in the Cold War in Latin America https://ow.ly/rYFf50XK2kj

What Hoover Thinks You Should Read in 2025. Me: "When it comes to the study of elite politics, in China, Frederick Teiwes and Warren Sun built their own mountain and put a flag on it." www.hoover.org/news/what-ho...

Delighted to share this interview about "Abiding Influence" for The Way of Improvement Leads Home website. Thank you @johnfea1.bsky.social for the opportunity. @stanfordpress.bsky.social @mngupbooks.bsky.social thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/12/16/t...

In Special Damage, Jessica Lake offers a comparative legal history of gendered hate speech, verbal abuse, and sexual harassment across 19th-century America, Australia, and England. #ReadUP https://www.sup.org/books/law/special-damage

For the first time in a decade I'm not attending the @jewishstudies.bsky.social annual conference. My book, Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity, is representing me instead, check it out at the @stanfordpress.bsky.social book stall!

Why do bourgeois elites try to transform cities? What happens when their fantasies fail to materialize? Learn about the social costs of elite-led urban change in my book! Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social and available for pre-order today! bookshop.org/p/books/citi...

Folks @jewishstudies.bsky.social conference: my & Harriet Murav’s brand new “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” is at @stanfordpress.bsky.social display booth where it’s on their table of featured titles— also a pic of it is on the banner! Stop by, take a look, order a copy! www.sup.org/books/jewish...

Really excited about this one: a special hometown discussion, with the terrific @mauracunningham.bsky.social, of "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping," in Clawson, Michigan on January 4 www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event...

Thank you Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar for mentioning The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping in @wsj.com's Who Read What in 2025 www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

📚 New Books Q&A with Diana Graizbord, author of Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2024) Interviewed by Jorge Ochoa @dgraizbord.bsky.social @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social asaskat.com/2025/12/12/s...

Thanks Pratap Bhanu Mehta for naming The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping one of the best books of 2025 for Open Magazine openthemagazine.com/books/pratap...

We write in our intro: “the authors we translate explore fundamental questions about the Holocaust and other mass killings and genocides of the past and present […]: how to provide testimony, how to memorialize victims, and how to live in the face of overwhelming destruction.” bit.ly/HolocaustLit...

I had a great conversation with Fatima Seck for this episode of Conversations in Atlantic Theory where I discuss Binding Media. I have aversion to listening to my recorded voice but hopefully you won’t 🥸

I got interviewed by Rima Praspaliauskiene and Hallie Wells about my book, 'Where the Sun Rises Square', and how I wrote it. Thanks to both of them for the opportunity - it's available to read now! writewhatyoulike.substack.com/p/interview-...

Folks in Southeast Michigan/Northwest Ohio: on January 4, I'll be at Three Cats Restaurant in Clawson to moderate a book talk by @josephtorigian.bsky.social on THE PARTY'S INTERESTS COME FIRST. Good food, drinks, and Xi Zhongxun—a perfect Sunday afternoon to end the holiday season.

From queer film classics to the artistic journeys of houseplants, we’ve got a great selection of books to gift your artsy loved-ones. Browse More: buff.ly/FEDRIRi #AarhusUniversityPress @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @llamasjr.bsky.social #GiftGuide

Two months ahead of the official publication date but the author copies of our book are here! @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Thanks to @burklecenter.bsky.social for hosting an engaging salon with many good friends last night on my new book on why the US-Iran relationship remains so hostile.

18 years ago, I walked into this bookstore for the very first time in downtown Cairo. Today, I found the Arabic translation of my book on its shelves. I never could have imagined this moment and am so grateful to everyone who helped make it happen.

Spoke to LRT (Lithuania's public broadcaster) about China, China-Russia relations, and Xi Jinping www.lrt.lt/naujienos/pa...

So very grateful for this news, for the support from the amazing Zócalo Public Square initiative, and for the company of these other wonderful writers. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2026-zocalo-...

Examining what today's most critically acclaimed and widely read literary writers have done with the genres of genre fiction, Genre Bending reveals the values, practices, and forms, as well as the tensions, that constitute literary fiction today. https://ow.ly/MYi950XG3ZT

Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950–51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. https://ow.ly/BktL50XG3X9

Worthy of Justice is out now! "Worthy of Justice provides an in-depth, well-executed look at Veteran Treatment Courts (VTCs) to understand both the policy frameworks that drive them and how they work out on the ground." —Julie Novkov, University at Albany, SUNY https://ow.ly/CPbB50XG3TQ

"Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n." – John Milton #botd In this episode from the archives, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Professor Stephen Dobranski about his book, Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times. @stanfordpress.bsky.social #books #johnmilton #paradiselost

For the entrepreneur in the making - books that fuel leadership, innovation and growth. Browse more: buff.ly/FEDRIRi @stanfordpress.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social #GiftGuide

Give the gift of political insight this Christmas with a range of titles that can deepen your political understanding, challenge assumptions and spark debates Browse more: buff.ly/FEDRIRi @josephtorigian.bsky.social @anandian.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social #GiftGuide

Examining what today's most critically acclaimed and widely read literary writers have done with the genres of genre fiction, Genre Bending reveals the values, practices, and forms, as well as the tensions, that constitute literary fiction today. https://ow.ly/MYi950XG3ZT

Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950–51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. https://ow.ly/BktL50XG3X9

Worthy of Justice is out now! "Worthy of Justice provides an in-depth, well-executed look at Veteran Treatment Courts (VTCs) to understand both the policy frameworks that drive them and how they work out on the ground." —Julie Novkov, University at Albany, SUNY https://ow.ly/CPbB50XG3TQ

We are in the final stretch of our sale! Don't miss the chance to get 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* before it shuts down at 11:59 PM tonight (12/8). #ReadUP #BookSky

We are in the final stretch of our sale! Don't miss the chance to get 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* before it shuts down at 11:59 PM tonight (12/8). #ReadUP #BookSky

Cue the final countdown music: our 40% off sale ends today! www.sup.org/about-our-cy...

Great opportunity to get all the titles in the (if I may say so) fabulous Text Technologies series at 40% off

Really enjoyed the conversation today @stimsoncenter.bsky.social on my new book, with Ryan Crocker and Barbara Slavin moderating. Here's the video if you missed it:

If you'd like to check it out, this is a good week to get the cyber week 40% discount @stanfordpress.bsky.social where you can buy my book and many others: www.sup.org/books/politi...

Very excited about another Midwest book talk this month: next week on December 10, I'll present The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping, at Indiana University events.iu.edu/polisciiub/e...

If you teach the History of the Book, or Information Technologies, or the long history of Text and materiality, this might be the coursebook for you—Treharne and Willan—now with StanfordUP’s 40% off. Bargain! www.sup.org/books/litera...