🌟Officially out now: "The Politics of Beginning. The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation" with @uofmpress.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... Here comes a thread

As mentioned by The New York Times, the 1910 law applied in Sean Combs' sentencing also featured in the Charlie Chaplin trials. You can learn more in Diane Kiesel's book "When Charlie Met Joan." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/a...

Are you ready for the semester? Author Shiri Noy wrote this piece with advice on setting up a project management system to help get you through this academic year. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Our new book "A Student-Friendly Guide to Move from Civil Law to U.S. Common Law" by Nancy Daspit & Kirsten Schaetzel supports students adapting to a different way of practicing and studying law. Learn more at myumi.ch/bVX39

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Check out a few of our titles below that highlight the history, culture, identities, & contributions of Hispanic and Latinx communities around the world. Read about some of these titles here: buff.ly/VnJa9kl

Our newest Poets on Poetry book is "Dispatches from the Land of Erasure: Essays and Conversations" by Philip Metres. The book gathers a decade of writing and conversations to discuss the writer's role as a catalyst for justice and a resister of empire. Find it at press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...

Trace the forgotten impact of courtesan's in Chinese theater in Peng Xu's "The Courtesan's Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama!" Learn more and grab a copy here: buff.ly/LIjGeYT

Kodak invented "the Kodak moment" to teach people they needed cameras to remember their lives. Jason Schneiderman sees poems heading down the same commercial track – and he's having none of it! Read more in NOTHINGISM, out now from @uofmpress.bsky.social: press.umich.edu/Books/N/Noth...

🌈 'Queer Throughlines' traces transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activism since the 1990s—mapping solidarity across Seoul & LA, from anti-war protests to church resistance, showing how queer movements weave community & political change across borders. bit.ly/4lRt1el @uofmpress.bsky.social

📱 'Cultural Production of Hallyu in the Digital Platform Era' explores how the Korean Wave is reshaped by global platforms like Netflix & TikTok, highlighting the power dynamics between creators, tech, and audiences in today’s digital cultural industries. 🌏 bit.ly/47jVoy4 @uofmpress.bsky.social

Just got my advance copy! Unsettling Catan releases Nov. 4 lookingglance.com/unsettling-catan/ #boardgames @uofmpress.bsky.social

Happy 10th anniversary to "In the Name of Editorial Freedom: 125 Years at the Michigan Daily" edited by Stephanie Steinberg! To celebrate the book's anniversary, we are offering 50% off. Just use the discount code "UMFREEDOM" on our website: press.umich.edu/Books/I/In-t...

Just got my copy! @uofmpress.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

Betsy Small was interviewed about her book "Before Before" and her time in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone for SoftPower/FulStories! To listen and see photos, visit www.softpowerfulstories.org/5-betsy-small/

"Broken Record" by Michael S. Lynch and Anthony J. Madonna is now available! This new title to our Legislative Politics and Policy Making series explores how roll call voting as contributed to political polarization. Read here: buff.ly/XOcnIx5

Michigan readers love @uofmpress.bsky.social books! The "Read Michigan" Program impacts every county in the state. Launched in collaboration with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social, "Read Michigan" features works of 3 MI university presses, incl. MSU and Wayne State's. ebc.press.umich.edu/stories/2025...

Go to the their booth and buy all the books, including arguably the greatest political science book to ever use the word “fleek” or reference Animal Crossing: New Horizons. #APSA2025 #APSA25

Heading to APSA? Swing by Book 411 to see our latest Political Science titles and meet our editor Madison Allums. Get 40% off all Political Science titles with code UMAPSA25 until Oct. 14! Browse here: buff.ly/Lm6ciat

"The Politics of Beginning" by Alejandro Esguerra is now available! This new edition to our Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics series explores our understanding of how to translate knowledge into new political projects. Read here: buff.ly/YL7dBG2

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social is now available! As the inaugural volume of the film|minutes series, this book offers a minute-by-minute analysis of James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Start reading here: buff.ly/U96DFVI

"Screening Precarity" by Megha Anwer & Anupama Arora is now available! This Media Studies title frames post-millennial Hindi films as cinema of precarity and explores how marginal identities are shaped when neoliberalism and authoritarianism enmesh. Read here: buff.ly/7nt56Nj

"The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide between Congo and Rwanda" examines how Banyamulenge soldiers’ narratives reveal the intertwining of violence, memory, and identity in the aftermath of genocide and ongoing conflict. Explore more here: bit.ly/47IlHOy @uofmpress.bsky.social

Grateful for this work and the work of the work

Such a powerful and necessary book, @philipmetres.bsky.social. It’s been an honor to work with you and my colleagues at @uofmpress.bsky.social to bring it out.

Check out this impact story and webinar recording about @uofmpress.bsky.social digitally converting its entire backlist of ~3500 monographs! Learn more about how UMP made their older scholarly works digitally available, high-quality, accessible ebooks on Fulcrum:

Julia H. Fawcett's "Movable Londons" is now available! This #OpenAccess title explores how people can shape a city's spaces and how a city can shape its people. Start reading: buff.ly/08s67qR

Next month author Shiri Noy will be leading a workshop on project management for researchers! More details at odum.unc.edu/event/projec...

"Arthurian Intertextualities" by Fiona Tolhurst & K.S. Whetter is now available! This new Medieval Studies title reinterprets Malory's major contexts and characters. Start reading: buff.ly/2iTuXz5

The new book "Publishing Beyond the Market" by Samuel A. Moore @samoore.bsky.social reimagines a more ethical, noncommercial approach to open access publishing. Start reading the #OpenAccess book at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

Pre-order "Crip Authority" today - Bearden explores how Renaissance writers used disabilities to transform consolatory literature into empowerment, challenging authority over time. bit.ly/4mUJHCo #DisabilityStudies @uofmpress.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

Podcast en español sobre mi libro Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (@uofmpress.bsky.social, 2021) en el New Books Network en Español con Yasmín S. Portales-Machado. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyPz...

Jody Enders’s translation of the farces of medieval France makes these plays both accessible and teachable for a contemporary audience. Read @marcul.bsky.social's review of Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage @uofmpress.bsky.social! buff.ly/f9YAaXC

David Tenorio's "Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad" is now available! This new addition to the University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social Triangulations series is an escapade into the nightly ambiance of Mexico City. Start reading: buff.ly/h7XZR7j

David Tenorio's "Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad" is now available! This new addition to our Triangulations series is an escapade into the nightly ambiance of Mexico City. Start reading: buff.ly/h7XZR7j

Happy publication day to Ideas on Fire author David Tenorio! 🥳 Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad is out now from @uofmpress.bsky.social press.umich.edu/Books/Q/Quee... #IoFAuthors

We're so excited to celebrate the newest Big Ten Open Books Collection focused on Indigenous North Americans! Featuring 12 UMP books, this collection highlights the histories, cultures, languages, and contributions of Indigenous North Americans. Read more with this blog post: buff.ly/1zcMF6K

Officially published today! There are exactly two (2) intentional cat jokes in this book. I make no guarantees about the number of additional unintentional cat jokes.

Academic collections aren't usually bittersweet, but this one from @uofmpress.bsky.social on age & aging in the #theater is: incomparable scholar Elinor Fuchs (1933-2024) was among its instigators. My interview with the remarkable critic, Bonnie Marranca, is within... press.umich.edu/Books/L/Late...

We have a new blog post on "The Human Element of Disability History." Author Leah Pope Parker shares the story of King Alfred the Great and how he relates to the new book "Light of the Everlasting Life." Read it at press.umich.edu/Blog/2025/08...

"Light of the Everlasting Life" by @parkerchronicle.bsky.social is now available! This new addition to the Corporealities series explores disability representations and the afterlife in Old English literature. Start reading: buff.ly/SgNgGOx

🎉 "A Domestic Cook Book" has been selected for the 31st Gourmand Awards, which honour the best food and wine books. Russell's book brings new life to the oldest known published cookbook written by an African American woman. Congratulations! Discover more here: bit.ly/4lMy9QG @uofmpress.bsky.social

There's one more week until submissions to the 2025 Tobin Siebers Prize close! Submit today: myumi.ch/n1V8R

A new week means a brilliant selection of new titles from our distributed presses. First up, "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" from Lever Press's ASIANetwork Books collection. Find it here: bit.ly/3Vcoc47 @leverpress.bsky.social @mackenziecooley.bsky.social

Why can’t we stop imagining dystopian futures? My new book explains how dystopias escaped the fiction section and took over political thought - from the totalitarian century to our technological age. It’s out now from @uofmpress.bsky.social. Check it out: press.umich.edu/Books/F/Fear...

Exploring our political, cultural, and technological contexts, on and off the screen, this new edition of SCREEN CAPTURES by @riffsandmeaning.bsky.social is out March 2026! Read more and pre-order your copy here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

"Waves of Discontent" by Jacob F. H. Smith is now available! The newest addition to our Legislative Politics and Policy Making series understands the link between voter frustration and changing party control. Start reading: buff.ly/fphWHFK

My second book with @uofmpress.bsky.social, "Waves of Discontent," about electoral volatility and congressional wave elections is out today. You can read it open access here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... use code UMWEB30 to get 30% off.

Our newest book "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" by Matthew Benjamin Cole looks at how stories of our world gone wrong haunt political thought. You can start reading this #OpenAccess book at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

Kimberly Jannarone's "Mass Performance: Systems and Citizens" is now available! This volume examines mass performance systems, how they arise during eras of nationalization, and how they are shaped by modernity. Read more: buff.ly/aFp0mZH

🔖📘 How contracts reveal the link between commerce and law in maritime societies: 'Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts' - a @michiganpublishing.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social‬ book on #ScienceOpen 📚 🖇️ #Classics #AncientEconomy #MaritimeTrade #LegalHistory