Has the university no-confidence vote lost its teeth? @mikenietzel.bsky.social @drchucka.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

The World Cup ends, but the conversation on national identity continues across continents. How do migration, citizenship, and FIFA eligibility rules redefine international football? Explore the complex legal and cultural forces shaping the game with Gijsbert Oonk. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

VPR 58.4 is hot off the press! It's great reading-whether you're gearing up for #RSVP26 in Dublin this week or just following the conference on our socials. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57248 @rs4vp.org

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Victorian Periodicals Review 58.4, Winter 2025 tiny.one/3p4h4d36 CONTRIBUTORS Shih-Wen Sue Chen Morgan Tanith Coleman Sarah Bliss Ruth Quante Mary L. Shannon Lesley Peterson Madeline B. Gangnes Teja Varma Pusapati Chetna Jena

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Reviews in American History 54.2, June 2026 #S2O #OpenAccess @ProjectMUSE tiny.one/yc4mfwp5 #S2O#OpenAccessONTRIBUTORS Andrew Hartman Carla J. Mulford Carol Faulkner Samantha Seeley Amy Murrell Taylor Paul S. Sutter Barton J. Bernstein Benjamin E. Varat Andrew C. Isenberg and more

Congratulations to Patrick McKelvey (@pmckelveyphd.bsky.social) on winning the 2026 ATHE Outstanding Article Award for his @TheatreJournal article charting out the fascinating history of service dogs Read "Honest Work Done By Honest Dogs" free at @ProjectMUSE thru 31 July tiny.one/2p8znmsv

How did the Tisza Islands take down Orbán? muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Today on the blog, Rachel Lesser reviews Christopher Nolan's new Odyssey film: classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/rle...

Michael W. Shurgot reviews Seattle Shakespeare Company and A Contemporary Theatre’s 2025 production of Twelfth Night, directed by Annie Lareau 🎭: www.unionartscenter.org/twelfth-night/ 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992532 📷: Howard Shack

The U.S. declined to renew USMCA on July 1—but it didn't collapse either. Kari Heerman talks with Christopher Sands and Duncan Wood about what "failure to renew" actually means and why negotiations continue.

Thrilled to receive ATHE's 2026 Outstanding Article Award for this piece! (This is the first writing toward what I hope to be book 3, a history of the performance cultures surrounding service dogs in the 20th-21st century US) doi.org/10.1353/tj.2...

How to Combat Transnational Repression muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

The new issue of @callaloojournal.bsky.social includes a pair of poems from Baltimore-born literary pioneer Quandra Prettyman: Carousel, and: Late Crape for My Mother Read free thru 31 July @ProjectMUSE tiny.one/3cme2ks6 #LitFriday

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Leviathan 28.2, June 2026 tiny.one/yc8c5j9v CONTRIBUTORS Jamie Parra Dawn Coleman Brian Yothers Steven Olsen-Smith Wyn Kelley Christopher Freeburg Peter Michael Martin Jake Heggie Andrew Kopec Mary K. Bercaw Edwards Paul M. Wright Jeffrey G. Adams Alan Van Brackel and more

New graphic to reflect our new issue-- inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue coming soon (January 2027) from @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Is economics a science? Susan Haack explores this complex question, diving into Robert Heilbroner’s critiques and comparing empirical methods across the natural and social sciences. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

bell hooks is in the news again, and Callaloo editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres shares a timely reminder of the riches in the prescient writer's work Read Callaloo's guest blog + a selected reading list from Hopkins Press journals and elsewhere: tiny.one/4e98jz4m

As the World Cup draws to a close this weekend, there's still time to catch up with our reading list about the world's most popular team sport, featuring readings from Social Research, Theatre Journal, American Quarterly and more Read free thru 20 July: www.press.jhu.edu/ne...

“The ladies watch whose jewels sparkle as they breathe, the stander in wet boat, his net flinching with fish, the city at the lagoon, surfboat and speedcar see the whole country” From Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Shortest Way Home,” a poem in TYR’s archives:

Is AI a disruption to writing as we know it today? Matthew Kirschenbaum argues no. In his latest essay, he explores LLMs as the logical completion of a "scriptural economy," where writing is merely a tokenized asset for value extraction. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Congratulations to Mitchell Scott and Rachel Scott on winning the 2026 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for Best Article in portal: Libraries and the Academy! Read about the award from the portal editorial board: tiny.one/5f4y5kuz

Call for Papers! Consider submitting proposals to a themed issue on Decolonizing Historical English Literary Studies. This call welcomes essays that imagine new possibilities for the study of historical English literature beyond colonial frameworks. Full CFP and on our website sel.rice.edu/open-cfps

Less than one percent of philanthropy is directed to democratic freedoms. Yet freedom is essential for everything—health, education, climate—philanthropy tries to accomplish. It is the most underpriced asset, and we are due for a market correction. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

USPS carried roughly 99 million ballots in 2024—nearly a third of American votes. Elena Patel explains what the Postal Service does, and doesn't, control in elections.

Democracies have always sparked conflict, disagreement, and deep ideological divisions. Polarized politics are hardly rare in democratic life. So under what conditions does polarization turn violent, and how can this danger be contained? muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Looking for some summer reading? Check out our latest blog posts! Justin Vorhis shares strategies for building a strong undergraduate Greek program: classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/jus...

The new issue of @callaloojournal.bsky.social includes a pair of poems from Baltimore-born literary pioneer Quandra Prettyman: Carousel, and: Late Crape for My Mother Read free thru 31 July @ProjectMUSE tiny.one/3cme2ks6 #LitFriday

The latest installment of the "Letters from the Field" by Caroline Hovanec and Anne Raine continues to ask how we study modernism in an era of climate crisis, ecological loss, and ongoing catastrophe? Read the letters on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

We have two excellent podcast episodes for your summer listening! Check out Lauren Duval's "The Home Front" and Chiara Formichi's "Domestic Nationalism." You can find both episodes (and more!) on our website: jwomenshistory.org/author-inter...

What turns a group into a collective force? For #TBT, we’re looking at “The Crowd.” From the aesthetics of protest in Kyiv to the politics of pelting, this collection explores how crowds shape identities, networks, and political change. muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...#TBT,

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Theatre Topics 36.2, July 2026 tiny.one/2jbunfnp CONTRIBUTORS Brian D. Valencia Bryan M. Vandevender Ying Lan Melissa Sturges Nigel O'Hearn Khristián Méndez Aguirre Xu Caifang Rosemary Ewing Susanne Shawyer

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW portal: Libraries and the Academy 26.3, July 2026 #S2O #OpenAccess @ Project MUSE tiny.one/58kp5wmv#S2O#OpenAccessCONTRIBUTORS Leo S. Lo Matthew Daley Tracy MacKay-Ratliff Valrie Minson Kat Nguyen Daniela Suzarte Li Yining Sarah G. Park Lisa Romero Stephen Zweibel and more

Make your research and discovery more efficient with a personalized MyMUSE account. With an account, you'll be able to save journal articles and books to your personal library, easily create citations, and much more. https://tr.ee/Eru3zu

Sheila T. Cavanagh reviews the 2025 production of Othello, directed by Kenny Leon 🎭: www.ethelbarrymoretheatrenyc.com/othello-at-t... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992526 📷: Julieta Cervantes

A New American Grand Strategy for the 21st Century

“But the ruined mills, but the ghost-towns, but the gaunt adolescent short-sleeved, torn-trouser, before the final beach!” From Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Shortest Way Home,” a poem in TYR’s archives, originally published in 1939:

Philosopher Jacques Derrida, #BOTD in 1930, revolutionized how we understand language, meaning, and truth. As the father of deconstruction, he challenged Western metaphysics, revealing how texts inherently hold shifting, multiple meanings. 1/3

“What solutions, exactly, can the study of literature contribute to the survival of the public museum?” Read Lucy Mensah's review of *Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature,* by Emma Bond, out now! asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Got Theory? Tobias Böhmelt does. Analyzing peacekeeping missions in post-Cold War #Africa, Böhmelt theorizes that missions can take on an #environmental protection orientation, and having #civilian personnel can help to enforce the environmental #regulations. #ClimatePolitics doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Hershel Parker, a “Melville scholar of Ahab-like obsessiveness,” has died. His magisterial “Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1” was a 1997 Pulitzer Prize finalist and was published with great fanfare—but also controversy. www.nytimes.com/2026...

Baseball, Arendt, and the flâneur? In a compulsively traditionless America, the diamond offers more than just a game—it provides a vital balance to modern solitude. 1/2

What a read! THE #CHEROKEE WAR OF 1776 by Kevin Kokomoor sheds light on a dirty, gritty and violent struggle of the #AmericanRevolution, including the role of founding fathers in Native dispossession and destruction. Buy this @hopkinspress.bsky.social book in Europe from your local bookshop!

Listen to @hopkinspress.bsky.social author Dr Erum Ilyas talk about her latest book, NO-NONSENSE #SKINCARE, with the UK's patient health hub, My Health Focus. Dr Ilyas explains why more products so rarely mean better skin. Book available to buy in Europe! myhealthfocus.com/podcast/the-...

Today on the Newsroom Blog, Callaloo editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres offers a timely reminder of the riches within the work of bell hooks Read her entry, along with a selected reading list from Hopkins Press journals and elsewhere: tiny.one/4e98jz4m

Liberté, égalité, fraternité! This #BastilleDayexplore our 1989 issue “The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity” featuring Eric Hobsbawm, Theda Skocpol, and others as they parse the event’s enduring impact on global politics and society. jstor.org/stable/10....#BastilleDayexplore

"Freedom functions as the infrastructure for everything else that philanthropy tries to accomplish." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

"The Fed’s nearly 50% decline in enforcement actions since COVID leads one to wonder whether the banks they regulate are that much more compliant or whether the Fed is choosing not to issue formal enforcement actions."

Interested in scholarly Spanish-language books from Latin American university presses? Thousands of these titles are available through a variety of library acquisition models on Project MUSE. Request more information to learn how your institution can access this collection. https://tr.ee/N5ibOP

For decades, sleep researchers have reached the same conclusion: teenagers need more sleep. "Educating the Exhausted" examines the history of adolescent sleep research alongside decades of efforts to translate that research into meaningful educational policy. https://tr.ee/GqeqH3

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW New Literary History 57.1, Winter 2026 tiny.one/2p948z5e CONTRIBUTORS Joshua Barnes Sara Crangle Philip Dickinson Graham Huggan Matthew Levay Carmen Faye Mathes Jahan Ramazani Matthew Sussman