Today on the Hopkins Press Podcast, Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg introduce their guest edited special issue of College Literature on trans literatures, featuring Stephanie Burt on Philip Larkin, Sarah Snyder and Will Anderson on Incarcerated Trans Resistance, and more tiny.one/2p83vvre

Today's #LitFriday featured poet is Sylvia Jones, with two poems from the Winter 2022 issue of The Hopkins Review Perpetual Resin: A Cento and First Black Cop Bop Read free Project MUSE thru 30 April tiny.one/uftwcmu6

Read the new review by Ridwan Muhammed on “Birth Politics: #Colonial Power, #MedicalPluralism, and #Maternity in #Nigeria” (@hopkinspress.bsky.social) by @ogewilliams.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/244dbyf3

I am delighted with this insightful appraisal of my book Discovering the #Okapi published by @hopkinspress.bsky.social from a mentor & friend E.J. Milner-Gulland, now also an #okapi fan www.linkedin.com/posts/e-j-mi...

Small and midsized city downtowns hold real promise—but vacant parcels, idle public land, and excess parking are holding many back. Tracy Hadden Loh, Hanna Love, and Bethany Krupicka identify key challenges and offer four recommendations for downtown recovery that can apply to cities of all sizes.

🆕 ICYMI: APRIL ISSUE OUT NOW! Only free to read through the end of the month! muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...

"Freed from the precision of painting, the linework of these sketches — dare I say, cartoons? — came alive on the page like nothing he'd drawn before." Chris Ware on Richard Scarry.

Today on the Hopkins Press Podcast, Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg introduce their guest edited special issue of College Literature on trans literatures, featuring Stephanie Burt on Philip Larkin, Sarah Snyder and Will Anderson on Incarcerated Trans Resistance, and more tiny.one/2p83vvre

Open Access content on MUSE is freely available to libraries and users around the world, expanding visibility and discoverability, and allowing for wider dissemination of knowledge. Learn more about OA content on MUSE today. https://tr.ee/G7ZcHb

#BOTD in 1942 in Edmonton, Canada, was social theorist and historian Moishe Postone. His seminal Marxist theories revolutionized our understanding of the "treadmill" of capital. 1/4

A reminder of the approaching deadline for our Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social We will consider articles in English, Spanish, or Portuguese (and on literature in those languages + Catalan, etc.)

Today's #LitFriday featured poet is Sylvia Jones, with two poems from the Winter 2022 issue of The Hopkins Review Perpetual Resin: A Cento and First Black Cop Bop Read free Project MUSE thru 30 April tiny.one/uftwcmu6

"From the moment we recognized heredity, we began trying to control it." Anna Hartford navigates pregnancy in an age of risk.

How to Defeat the Authoritarian Message If democracy’s defenders want to push back against authoritarianism, they must learn to tap into patriotic language and a sense of national identity. Such emotional appeals shouldn’t be left to autocrats and demagogues.

Garth Greenwell on art, morality, and God in an unexpected reading of Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater.

In SEL's 64.1, Delucia reads antiabortion feminists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to understand and examine their uncritical adoption of Wollstonecraft’s words into their modern contexts. Find the full article on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/983662

The Strait of Hormuz blockade shows that global trade isn't just about oil—it's about survival. This #TBT looks at “Human Rights and the Global Economy,” with De Schutter and others warning of fragmented governance where trade trumps human rights. muse.jhu.edu/issue/2...#TBT

Attention all JHU affiliates! There are 2 weeks left to submit to the fifth annual Stephen Dixon Fiction Prize! This contest is open to current students, alum, staff, and faculty of Johns Hopkins University. Spread the word. We can't wait to read your work! @hopkinsreview.bsky.social

Join us on Substack for behind-the-scenes conversations with our writers.

What does China's new Five-Year Plan tell us about where its economy is headed? For The Beijing Brief, Jon Czin, Kyle Chan, and Andrew Polk break down Beijing's bet on technology and innovation—and what the plan means for global trade, manufacturing, and competition. Listen to the episode 👇

Only two weeks left to submit to the fifth annual @hopkinsreview.bsky.social Anne Frydman Translation Prize!! This contest is open to all emerging translators (no book) and early-career translators (no more than one full-length book of translation) We can't wait to read your work!

The April issue is online! Authors include Alexander Baturo & @rgolar23.bsky.social; Kaitlyn Chriswell; @dyzenhaus.bsky.social; Lauren Honig, @adamsharris.bsky.social, & Ellen Lust; Yue Hou & Jieun Kim. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56725 #autocrats #crime #land #gender #law #SouthAfrica #Malawi #China #Mexico

Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy "...Large numbers of lower-income voters in advanced democracies [became] relatively adrift in their party systems. Thus space opened for political entrepreneurs who would give voice to disappointment with the effects of globalization." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

"One of the most astonishingly feminist characteristics of Akerman's work is, in fact, the privacy of her characters, who divulge so little." Emily LaBarge on Chantal Akerman.

New on Print Plus: Robert Spoo's article "The Dispossessing of Sylvia Beach: Property, Autonomy, Personhood" which revisits the life and legacy of Sylvia Beach to consider the entanglements that shape women’s lives and labor. Read the article here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/spo...

"My search for the abstract novel has, of course, forced me to consider, appreciate, be seduced by, and employ nonsense." —Percival Everett

The opposition party leader pulled off the most stunning election upset in modern Hungarian history. Magyar did it by taking the fight to the countryside and winning over Orbán voters who were tired of corruption and poor results.

“Ernest has a little cat who rides shotgun on the dashboard. Her name is Penny. What does she think about the road she’s on” —Barbara Hamby, “Daphne Hitchhikes Across Montana and Death Stops for Her”

April is Earth Month - celebrate with 40% off all life science books, and get free shipping on your $75+ order with code HLFE26! 🌱 From recent titles like "Why Whales Sing" to conservation essentials, these titles cover all areas of interest around life science. https://tr.ee/AWmGjO

Hopkins Press publishes 100+ journals and manages 20+ client societies, most focusing on #Humanities and #SocialScience scholarship This week, we join @acls1919.bsky.social in celebrating the crucial work of humanists, social sciences, and interdisciplinary dialogue! bit.ly/4tKI11Y

"For weeks I had imagined the poet like a Teflon god, striding over Antarctica, impervious to frostbite or shame." —Jen Silverman, "Antarctica"

"Everybody loses." That's how Elena Patel and Vanessa Williamson frame the stakes if the IRS and Postal Service can't be stabilized. From rural mail delivery to tax enforcement, both agencies provide services with no real substitute. Full conversation on The Current ⬇️

Happy book birthday to Rise of the Zombie Bugs! Now through 4/30, you can snag a copy for 40% off at @hopkinspress.bsky.social. If you've always wondered how nature's tiniest neuroscientists zombify their bug hosts, my book may align with your interests 🧟‍♀️ 🐜🐛🐝🐌 www.press.jhu.edu/books/earth-...

Today in Encode/Decode we look into how #ambassadors promote domestic exports to a host country and represent interests of their home states. Read how @minjulisettekim.bsky.social and Shu Fu use #data to explain if #trade benefits are equally distributed across the US: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

“He asked me about myself, but what could I say—I’m a Greek girl who ran away from the God of Poetry because I wanted to be free” From “Daphne Hitchhikes Across Montana and Death Stops for Her” by Barbara Hamby, TYR’s Poem of the Week:

Durkheim’s review of Georg Simmel’s “Philosophy of Money” bridges the gap between acknowledging the classics and actually understanding them. A must-read for anyone navigating the deep legacy of social theory. www.jstor.org/stable... 3/3

Émile Durkheim, a founding father of sociology who championed the study of "social facts" and social cohesion, was #BOTD in 1858 in Épinal, France. 1/3

Congratulations to Samanta Schweblin and translator Megan McDowell—Schweblin's story "Welcome to the Club," from our Summer 2025 issue, has been selected by Tommy Orange for a 2026 O. Henry Prize! 🎉 lithub.com/announcing-t...

Today on the blog, Michael Taylor kicks off a new series spotlighting TAPA articles with his take on Duncan MacRae's "Capitoline Futures: The Location of Roman Futurity." classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/mik...

When Populism Can Be Good Populism is too often treated as if it is all one thing. But what if populist politics and democratic backsliding didn’t have to go together? A closer look reveals two kinds of populism, one of which is less threatening to liberal democracy. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

"The no-win binary of hypersexualization or sexlessness: both are narrow, inhumane states that don't account for the vast territory between the mammy and the slut." —Raven Leilani

The opposition party leader pulled off the most stunning election upset in modern Hungarian history. Magyar did it by taking the fight to the countryside and winning over Orbán voters who were tired of corruption and poor results.

Erin Rachel Kaplan reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Hamlet Hail to the Thief, directed by Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet-hail-... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985853 📷: Manuel Harlan

Noel Sloboda reviews the American Shakespeare Center’s 2025 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed by Aidan O'Reilly 🎭: americanshakespearecenter.com/events/the-t... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985862 📷: Lindsey Walters

"If the academic humanities too often address only siloed experts, then pop philosophy too often addresses an audience of imagined idiots." Becca Rothfeld on what today's public intellectuals get wrong.

In SEL's latest issue, Peh places queer antisociality and disability studies’ “crip time” together in order to understand “the ruining effects of reproduction” in Hutchinson’s poetry. Image: Mater Dolorosa (Mourning Mother), 1776. George Romney The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund

Trump’s "plain speak" isn't just style—it’s a calculated linguistic reform. In our most recent issue, Aurora Donzelli explores "metapragmatic gaslighting" and the "linguistic state of exception," where shared norms are suspended to build a hypercapitalist, ultrareactionary order. 1/2

We’re here to Hype that Hypothesis! Anti-protest #propaganda plays an important role in weakening public support for #protest. Read how World Politics contributors Minh D. Trinh and maitruong0526.bsky.social tested this “warning” mechanism in #Vietnam: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

New analysis by Valerie Wirtschafter (@vwirtschafter.bsky.social): AI-generated content flagged on X has surged to record highs since the Iran conflict began. The data point to a coordinated effort to use AI as a tool of information warfare—eroding public support and sowing confusion at scale.

What happens when one day repeats — again and again and again? Clare Carlisle on Solvej Balle’s extraordinary septology.