"After Covid" is a deeply researched account of a crisis that has fundamentally changed the world, and continues to reshape it in ways we're only beginning to understand. https://tr.ee/WqkUKP

Honor Women's History Month with the latest edition of "The Journal of Women's History," covering work done by female philanthropists during and after the First World War. Available now on Project MUSE. https://tr.ee/d4oK88

World Politics is excited to announce our new page on LinkedIn. We hope you'll join us: www.linkedin.com/company/World-Politics-Journal

"I wrote an ode to reticence, my habit of perfection. The held and holding word, its wetting tract is not, as Hopkins said, renunciation but a space, I think for coiled sound to shift." From "Doublet" by Isabel Neal, TYR's Poem of the Week:

Come find us at @awpwriter.org this week! Stop by booth 430 for subscription deals, merch, and more. Plus: Jonathan Gleason, winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, will be signing books on Friday. @yalepress.bsky.social

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I’ll turn back to Bill Connolly’s Resounding Events in a new thread (#5 today I think?) later today, but I recommend to everyone this free - for the month of March (a different March madness?— access to several of his articles. Thanks to a reader for sending this in (will now look up who that was!)

Political theorist William E. Connolly passed last week, leaving behind an influential body of work studying democracy, capitalism & culture To celebrate his legacy, we're unlocking his contributions to our journals thru 31 March on Project MUSE press.jhu.edu/newsro... 1/3

"From Upheaval to Action" offers a vital update on the shifting landscape of American higher education. Based on visits to more than 60 institutions and organizations, the authors provide an unflinching portrait of a sector navigating a complex, high-stakes transformation. https://tr.ee/RblY3O

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW The Yale Review 114.1, Spring 2026 tinyurl.com/46dxnm6s CONTRIBUTORS Vincenzo Latronico Aria Aber Jorie Graham Jhumpa Lahiri Ted Mathys Dale Peck Emma Copley Eisenberg Saba Keramati Megan O'Grady Rachel Eisendrath Luis Muñoz Garth Greenwell and more The Yale Review

“mistakes are normal. fixing mistakes is ethical.” - @lollardfish.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Remson DeJoseph reviews The Wasteland Theatre Company’s 2024 production of Richard the Ghoul, dir. Jonathan Thomas 🎭: www.wastelandtheatre.com/director-s-b... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981814 📷: Jessica-Star Hussiere

“the teaching voice, rather than the scholarship voice, is the best analogy to public writing. And that’s not about dumbing down or saying things that aren’t true; it’s about having a highly developed sense of audience and context” - @lollardfish.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

People are losing faith in democracy’s ability to deliver social progress. But are democracies better than autocracies at promoting economic growth, alleviating poverty, and creating healthier, more educated, and more peaceful societies? On all counts, the answer is yes.

Jeffrey Feltman reflects on being one of the few Americans ever to meet Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—offering insights into how Khamenei viewed Iran’s place in the world.

Was it freedom—or just a new form of coercion? muse.jhu.edu/article... 2/2

Liberal abolitionists saw emancipation as a shift to wage labor, but revolutionaries demanded land and collective power. Ricardo Vega León’s “The Tensions of Abolitionism and Racial Capitalism” explores the clash between racial capitalism and true liberation. 1/2

How does loss of #government support in hard #economic times get reallocated across nonincumbent #politicalparties? This is just one piece of a puzzle that Timothy Hellwig and Tonya Dodez address in their January article. #elections #democracies #vote doi.org/10.1353/wp.2... @timhellwig.bsky.social

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Lutheran Quarterly 40.1, Spring 2026 #S2O #OpenAccess at Project MUSE tinyurl.com/5enwcbrf#S2O#OpenAccessCONTRIBUTORS Johannes Schimohr Robert Kolb Irene Dingel Gracia Grindal Amy Nelson Burnett Timothy J. Wengert Ronald K. Rittgers Mark Mattes Wade Johnston Timothy R. Schmeling and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Journal of Early Christian Studies 34,1, Spring 2026 tinyurl.com/y6t9dyfk CONTRIBUTORS Jason Borges Sarah Parkhouse Kent Peters Brendan A. Baran Marilena Vlad Adam H. Becker Amy Brown Hughes Mark Smith Georgia Frank Jane Heath Stephen J. Shoemaker Jean-Paul M. Juge and more

Season 5 of the Foresight Africa podcast launched this week 🎉 Hosted by Landry Signé, this season goes beyond the headlines to unpack the forces shaping U.S.-Africa relations—from critical minerals to energy security, trade, and emerging technologies. Listen to the first episode 🎧

The country’s civil society is reemerging, opposition leaders are returning, and activists are taking to the streets. Even more, Washington has the leverage to bring about real change. Will it seize the moment?

Is our most-cited article on your #SundayRead list? Explore Chantal Mouffe’s “Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?” as she critiques the "deliberative democracy" paradigm. 1/2

Listen to the full episode on Iran from January here: www.brookings.edu/articles/ira...

In January on the Current podcast, @asliaydintasbas.bsky.social asked Iran expert Suzanne Maloney what would happen if Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei died in a U.S. bombing campaign. Watch part of their discussion 👇

🎙️Lindsay Weinberg says students have no idea how much their schools are snooping on them using automated exam proctoring that uses facial recognition software to wellness apps. Check out her book, Smart University, via @hopkinspress.bsky.social Listen here: www.wortfm.org/in-search-of...

CFP: VPR will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2027. We’re taking this historic occasion to capture the state of our field in a “KEYWORDS” special issue guest edited by Fionnuala Dillane, @jimmussell.bsky.social & @mdamkjaer.bsky.social. Proposals due March 30. Details: rs4vp.org/vpr-cfp-spec...

Read the full article on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/983661 Image Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington Hogarth, William. 1732. A Harlot's Progress: pl.1.

In SEL's latest issue, McCall's article reads The Fortunate Transport to analyze mid-eighteenth-century connections between labor and race. McCall contends “The novel’s many reproducing women help us situate gendered labor at the heart of eighteenth-century geopolitical and fictional worldbuilding.”

With the semester in full swing and midterms approaching, create a free personalized MyMUSE account to help make your research and discovery more powerful and efficient by saving content, quickly generating citations, and more. https://tr.ee/BfEeiW

Tomorrow in DC! Marine robotics expert James Bellingham will be discussing his new book with NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce Snag a ticket before they're gone. www.eventbrite.com/e...

Influential political theorist William E. Connolly passed last week, leaving behind an influential body of work studying democracy, capitalism & culture To celebrate his legacy, we're unlocking his contributions to our journals thru 31 March on Project MUSE press.jhu.edu/newsro... 1/3

Come say hi to us this week in the AWP exhibit hall, and don't miss our panel with our colleagues in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social, the Writing Seminars, and the online MA programs Johns Hopkins University: Join the Literary Legacy Thursday, 5 March, Room 324 conference.awpwriter.org/in_person_ev...

We’re delighted to announce that @laurenottaviani.bsky.social (KU Leuven) has joined VPR's staff as Associate Editor. Lauren will oversee book reviews, and she welcomes suggestions for special features. Visit rs4vp.org/vpr/ to message the editors or volunteer to review a book. #VictorianStudies

Honest, urgent, and empowering, "Outsmarting Cancer" challenges readers to rethink how we talk about cancer and how we can reduce its burden before it begins. https://tr.ee/fRIpxn

Laurie Higgins reviews The Jamie Lloyd Company’s 2024-25 production of The Tempest, dir. Jamie Lloyd 🎭: thejamielloydcompany.com/productions/ 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981819

Joan Raube-Wilson reviews the American Shakespeare Center’s 2024 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, dir. Dawn Monique Williams 🎭: americanshakespearecenter.com/events/merry... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981819 📷: October Grace Media

Volumes 1 through 4 of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos are available now on MUSE, Open Access and fully searchable, with additional volumes coming soon. Explore this extensive resource from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum now free of charge. https://tr.ee/ty4oq3

Today's Lit Friday features four poems by A.F. Moritz and three by Juan Ramón Jiménez (translated by Moritz) Read free in Literary Imagination thru 14 March via Project MUSE Moritz: tinyurl.com/mrp69kmk Jiménez: tinyurl.com/ymf6mksk

Fantastic news from @projectmuse.bsky.social – over 100 journals across 28 publishers are publishing #OpenAccess in 2026 through their #SubscribeToOpen programme. Congratulations 🎉! #S2O #OA

We are delighted to share that The Yale Review has been named a finalist for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, Literature, Science and Politics, as well as a finalist for the ASME Award for Fiction! Congratulations to our team and to our brilliant writers.

In "The Model of the Text," which appeared in our journal in 1971, he argued that meaningful social action can be read just like a written document, expanding the methodology of human sciences. http://www.jstor.org... 2/2

#BOTD was French philosopher Paul Ricœur in 1913 in Valence, France. Ricœur was famous for bridging the gap between phenomenology and hermeneutics, exploring how we interpret ourselves through the detour of cultural symbols and narratives. 1/2

SEL makes the best conference-traveling companion! Check out our latest winter issue (64.1) on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/56448

We’re delighted to welcome Johns Hopkins University Press as an exclusive PUP sales and marketing client in China! Read more: press.princeton.edu/news/hopkins... @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Part I of the special session I guest-edited for Asian Perspective, “China in the MENA Region,” is now published. Grateful to contributors and to Editor-in-Chief Ho-fung Hung. Pleased it coincides with the journal’s 50th anniversary. Part II forthcoming.

And here is a link to a few of those. Reach out if you want specific recommendations. www.press.jhu.edu/books/subjec... @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Oh man, do I have a reading list for you! We have books on the nuts and bolts of how universities work, on how to read a university budget, and what boards of trustees actually do. We have books on academic freedom—what it is and isn’t... @hopkinspress.bsky.social

The first part of the special session of Asian Perspective, “China in the MENA Region: Within and Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative,” guest-edited by KUASIA Director Burak Gürel, has been published.

ICYMI, last week's Lit Friday features new fiction from Asali Solomon, "End of the Line" from the new issue of Hopkins Review All aboard to Philadelphia -- the story is free to all readers and riders, #S2O #OpenAccess on Project MUSE tinyurl.com/bdezndh6#S2O