Jazz giant Sonny Rollins, who passed away last month, gave an interview to John A. McCluskey for the pages of Callaloo Journal in 2018 In celebration of his memory, we've unlocked the interview on Project MUSE; read free through 15 June: tiny.one/bddp4za6

Two Hopkins Press books were featured in the @aupresses.bsky.social 2026 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show! "The Novel and the Blank" and "May Contain Anxiety" were featured in the "jackets and covers" category, showcasing the unique publishing program of Hopkins Press. https://tr.ee/hjPthQ

Barry Davis, author of "The Preventioneers," shares the stories behind health practices, like handwashing, that are now often considered common sense, in an interview with Texas Standard

Andrew Wehrman, author of "The Contagion of Liberty," joins GBH's 'Morning Edition' to discuss the battle of smallpox that was fought alongside the American Revolution, 250 years ago. 😷 Listen to the piece using the link below! 🎧

How did the rat become the symbol of one of history's deadliest diseases? Christos Lynteris joins @NewBooksNetwork's 'New Books in History,' to discuss his new book "How Plague Got Rats." 🐀 Listen to the full episode below! 🎧 newbooksnetwork.com/...

In "Cats: A History," Rod Phillips shares a sweeping cultural and social history of felines, tracing their shifting place across societies and centuries, from medieval Europe's suspected familiars of witches to today's cherished internet icons. 🐈 https://tr.ee/T6Madp

David M. Perry (David M. Perry) on why scholars can help us understand the most urgent issues in the news. Thanks, Susan D’Agostino!

Jeremiah Day's monologue "The Chair Remains Empty / But The Place is Set" considers the humble political power of the town meeting From ASAP/Journal; read free at Project MUSE thru 15 June: tiny.one/3hrasf68 #LItFriday

Lorraine Hansberry's 1950s short form writing—periodicals, poems, short stories—was a black freedom practice more expansive in nature than the legal pursuit of freedom, writes Soyica Colbert in Callaloo Journal Read free through 15 June: tiny.one/yc6z6uy4

Today on the podcast, Katie O'Hara-Krebs of portal: Libraries and the Academy chats with Harvard librarian about how academic libraries can develop metrics to translate library services into data responsive to institutional performance indicators tiny.one/2s4dbd5p

"People think divorce is a failure. For me it was an achievement." Anahid Nersessian on her divorce.

Is your reality being bent? Sanford F. Schram analyzes "Trumpism as Discourse," breaking down how gaslighting, co-opting, and boomeranging are used to normalize extremism and push us toward authoritarianism. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

New from @hopkinspress.bsky.social! THE EQUITY-EXCELLENCE IMPERATIVE IN ACTION, edited by Steven P. Dandaneau, offers rich answers—showing how equity and excellence are not competing ideals in #HE but mutually reinforcing commitments. Available throughout Europe from your local bookshop!

"Poetry asks you to stop. To sense the war within yourself. To love, strangely, the stranger." —Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Don't miss out on 30% off all books, from bestsellers like "The Caring University" to new releases including "It's (Just) Rocket Science," with code HMOR26 at checkout. Plus, get free shipping on your $50+ order! https://tr.ee/woLKQl

Jeremiah Day's monologue "The Chair Remains Empty / But The Place is Set" considers the humble political power of the town meeting From ASAP/Journal; read free at Project MUSE thru 15 June: tiny.one/3hrasf68 #LItFriday

The Rise of Political Violence in the United States: how can we stop it?

📢Registration is open for the 50th Annual German Studies Association Conference #theGSA2026 in Phoenix, AZ! Visit our website to register and find more information: 👉 thegsa.org/member-servi... We are looking forward to seeing you there! 🚄🛬🌵

Dr. Susan Zieger’s blog post teases her article and discusses the circulation of coal and its artistic depiction in the nineteenth century through the paintings of Turner, Van Gogh, and Monet. Blog on our website: victorianreview.org?p=2622 Article on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56547

ICYMI: the 20 most-read journal articles last month include a piece from the new issue of Journal of Democracy, forthcoming articles from the Review of Higher Education and Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology and more! See them all: www.press.jhu.edu/ne...

How can academics best do public scholarship? In 16 minutes we'll start talking with the excellent @lollardfish.bsky.social about his recent book, a very accessible, practical guide for every academic. Join us here: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Got Theory? Mai Hassan and Kathleen Klaus theorize that the property rights gap in #Kenya is less likely to close in #autocratic #regimes compared to #democratic regimes. Learn more about the centrality of land to Keynan #politics here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Available in Europe! @hopkinspress.bsky.social's CONFRONTING CHRONIC PAIN by Steven H. Richeimer & Alexander Chen reflects major changes in the understanding of #pain. Covers #arthritis, #fibromyalgia, #backpain, #neuropathy, #headaches and #cancer, along with the latest options for relief.

#TBT to Fall 2001: “Altered States of Consciousness.” From the neuroscience of brain function to the history of drug policy and the “War on Drugs,” we explored the science, culture, and ethics of how we experience—and regulate—our minds. www.jstor.org/stable...#TBT

Called "meticulously researched and readable" by the "Library Journal," Kevin Kokomoor's "The Cherokee War of 1776" uncovers the forgotten history of the US war against the Cherokee during the early days of American independence. https://tr.ee/AcOUaH

The book is dead! Long live the book! yalereview.org/article/shei...

Relationships author Kate King writes for therapist website, Welldoing, about one of the themes—"the comfort trap"—of her @hopkinspress.bsky.social book MEND OR MOVE ON: A GUIDE TO HEALING OR LEAVING TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS. Book available to buy in Europe! welldoing.org/article/the-...

A fab review by @nhbs.bsky.social of @hopkinspress.bsky.social's THE RISE OF MAMMALS IN AFRICA by Emmanuel Gheerbrant, illustrated by Charlène Letenneur & Alexandre Lethiers—how animals that seem intrinsically African did not originate there! Book available in Europe! www.nhbs.com/the-rise-of-...

"All great writers are great colorists, just as they are musicians into the bargain; they always contrive to make their scenes glow and darken and change to the eye." Virginia Woolf, from the archives.

John Barth was born OTD in 1930; Spencer Hupp considers the literary and cultural context of Barth's first published short story, which appeared in the pages of @hopkinsreview.bsky.social in 1950: hopkinsreview.com/features/bes...

Volume V of the USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, is now available on Project MUSE. This volume illuminates the vast and lethal scope of the racial persecution, detention, and murder of non-Jewish victims by the Nazis and their allies. https://tr.ee/1qcRju

“I feel no hatred for this beautiful woman. Nor hatred for the dead man for having left me. I have my sins toward him with which to contend.” —Lorrie Goldensohn, “Curious, I Go to Her Website”

📢German Studies Review 49.2 is now available and accessible to GSA members as part of their membership! For information on how to sign in and access the latest issue, see our website here: thegsa.org/node/830

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW The French Review 99.4, May 2026 tiny.one/yszb35ed CONTRIBUTORS Carine Bourget Shanaaz Mohammed Taoues Hadour Myers Martine Gantrel Frank Lasmézas Melissa Barchi Panek Michèle Bissière Laurence Denié-Higney Marie-Magdeleine Chirol Roxane Lécrivain Maurice Tetne and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Callaloo Journal 44.2, Spring 2026 tiny.one/yt6btrv3 CONTRIBUTORS Kyla Kupferstein Torres Safia Elhillo Arnisha Royston Maya Henry Lewis Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi Gathondu Mwangi Emmy Parker Jalen Eutsey Diannely Antiga Migwi Mwangi Adams Adeosun and many more

Don't miss David M. Perry (David M. Perry) discussing his new book "The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook" on Bryan Alexander (Bryan Alexander)'s Future Trends Forum—this Thurs at 2pm ET!

"Books are fantasies. They're there to remind me of my own desire for more knowledge." Sheila Liming on why she keeps the books she hasn't read.

When kids use AI to complete schoolwork, they're not offloading skills they already have—they're skipping the process of developing them. Rebecca Winthrop makes the case for treating this as "cognitive stunting" and what it means for policy.

"Reading is not just an exercise in empathy or in broadening our ideas; it's no mere thought experiment. It is also something that happens to the body." Samanta Schweblin on what reading does to us.

Time for another Encode/Decode! We look into how Hans Lueders uses #data to test his theory that #regime change makes citizens' #political attitudes malleable. Read his full article, “When Democracy Brings Insecurity,” here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Jazz giant Sonny Rollins, who passed away over the weekend, gave an interview to John A. McCluskey for the pages of Callaloo Journal in 2018 In celebration of his memory, we've unlocked the interview on Project MUSE; read free through 15 June: tiny.one/bddp4za6

In "Political Identities in Changing Politics," Tilly explores how identity struggles shift over time, from Henry VIII’s era to post-9/11 society, showing how rights rely on negotiation. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a... 2/2

#BOTD in 1929 in Lombard, IL: Sociologist Charles Tilly transformed how we view conflict and state-building. A prolific scholar at the New School and beyond, Tilly rigorously examined the mechanics of social movements, democracy, and inequality. 1/2

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW German Studies Review 49.2, May 2026 tiny.one/ymbvzs3e CONTRIBUTORS Jonathan Gentry Lars Boomsma Lilû Kruspe Jennifer M. Lynn Per Rolandsson Briana Smith Gwyneth Cliver Jon Mathieu William Patch Ross Shields Karen S. Feldman Nicole Grewling Jens Erik Mogensen and more

“My stomach plunging in dread, I go to the website of the dead woman who broke up my marriage in 1968.” “Curious, I Go to Her Website,” by Lorrie Goldensohn, TYR’s Poem of the Week:

Read "The Local Scholars of Late Antique Athens" by Colin M. Whiting in the latest issue of Journal of Late Antiquity for free! This, and the whole issue, is available #S2O #OpenAccess at @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Children's Literature 54, 2026 tiny.one/4wzhhrs8 Lisa Rowe Fraustino Sarani Roy Kiera Vaclavik Megan L. Musgrave Joe Sutliff Sanders Gregory Bryan Mike Cadden Patricia Crain Chris Crowe Myers Enlow Amber P. Hodge Chad Benito Infante Wesley Jacques Nick Kleese and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Christianity & Literature 75.1, March 2026 tiny.one/2p98epj4 CONTRIBUTORS Ken Jackson Judith Stuchiner Scott Crider Ben Porter Harold Schweizer Lucy Fernandes Ignatik Ken Fontenot Colette Tennant Aaron James Weisel Philip Irving Mitchell Blake I. Campbell and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Classical World 119.1, Fall 2025 tiny.one/5xkw88yj CONTRIBUTORS Bill Beck Kathleen Cruz Fred K Drogula Chris Murray Faye Bakovsky Erin M Hanses Robert S Santucci Gareth Williams Scott Goins Lee T. Pearcy Andrew R Dyck

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Phoenix 80.1, Spring/printemps 2026 tiny.one/ye23vnbv CONTRIBUTORS Leah Kronenberg Lukas Spielhofer Martin Bauer-Zetzmann Dominik Berrens Andrew Meadows Christopher Erdman Pauline Ripat Martina Garibotti Jan-Mathieu Carbon Cristiana Zaccagnino Fabian Horn and more