Flamboyant Fictions - Northwestern University Press
Exposes a stylistic tradition of flamboyantly failed passing in queer literature and film This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving ex...| Northwestern University Press
Exposes a stylistic tradition of flamboyantly failed passing in queer literature and film This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving ex...| Northwestern University Press
Published on July 15, David Zurick's The Third Coast is a beautiful celebration of the Great Lakes and the Midwestern culture they make possible. Locals| Northwestern University Press
A seminal work of trans theater brought to the page for the first time When Pony, a formerly incarcerated trans guy, moves to a small rural town to start ...| Northwestern University Press
I can’t even start writing a play until I have mapped its inner world. Sometimes the outer world, but mostly, what it feels like to be inside it.| Northwestern University Press
Northwestern University Press publishes books of enduring scholarly and cultural value, including works of poetry, philosophy, and criticism.| Northwestern University Press
The acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir from Wendy C. Ortiz A darkly vibrant and daring memoir, Wendy C. Ortiz’s Excavation challenged the standard te...| Northwestern University Press
A cartography of Hollywood and transformational wanderings, back in print A daylight traipse through early-aughts Los Angeles, Hollywood Notebook enc...| Northwestern University Press
The dreamscape of a haunted and hopeful woman, back in print Dubbed a “dreamoir,” Bruja is a bold and harrowing journey through the dream worlds of ...| Northwestern University Press
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is important both for its content and for the influence it has h...| Northwestern University Press
Spooky Season is upon us! The leaves here in Evanston have begun their yearly transition, and it’s the best time of year to work on a nineteenth century| Northwestern University Press
What are academic conferences, and more importantly, why do they matter? Northwestern University Press attends many academic conferences throughout the| Northwestern University Press
Curbstone Books, an NUP imprint, is known for innovative books focused on promoting equity, justice, and intercultural understanding. This month, we have| Northwestern University Press
With a June filled with first beach days and heat waves, we can’t recommend enough taking a peak at our sparkling new titles. We have starry stories in Samantha Edmonds’s... READ MORE| Northwestern University Press
EVANSTON, IL— The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Northwestern University Press (NUP) are proud to announce that Annie Tucker is the winner of... READ MORE| Northwestern University Press
Perhaps I read more than necessary for my new book out from Curbstone, Agrippina the Younger. I wasn’t a deep fan of Ancient Roman history—I didn’t have the broader context of... READ MORE| Northwestern University Press
Before springing into the summer months, May has brought us a moment to slow down and enjoy everything that the final month of spring has to offer. This| Northwestern University Press
Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure everyday experience, is...| Northwestern University Press
When I’m asked what provided me with the impetus for writing an entire collection of essays, the most convenient explanation I can come up with is my| Northwestern University Press
A young Filipino writer’s odyssey toward home, in the wake of the loss of her poet father Feeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away w...| Northwestern University Press
A debut full-length poetry collection from Sarah Lyn Rogers rewriting girlhood and summoning mischief Sarah Lyn Rogers’s debut full-length collection is a ...| Northwestern University Press
Spring makes the weather in Chicagoland a bit unpredictable, perhaps matching the pervasive unpredictability of everything else in our world. We at the| Northwestern University Press
Back in 2014 when my first book, Excavation, was published, my full-time job was co-parenting a three-year-old and working my required 3000 hours of| Northwestern University Press
Promoting your own work can be stressful and confusing in the best of times. Even in a perfect world, it can be unclear where to start, and with| Northwestern University Press
What has stayed with you from The Great Gatsby? One thing that stayed with me from The Great Gatsby, when I first read it in high school, was| Northwestern University Press
Spring has (more or less) sprung in Chicagoland, and NUP’s spring season has blossomed alongside. NUP’s presence at the AWP conference in LA last week was| Northwestern University Press
It’s winter and I’m on my knees, working a spade into the mud, down to bulbs that sprout countless stems of sourgrass, hoping to contain the patch that’s| Northwestern University Press
When, in 1784, Immanuel Kant considered the question, “Do we live in an enlightened age?,” his answer was restrained but optimistic: “No,” he wrote, “but| Northwestern University Press
We celebrated one full season of Incidental Noyes on the blog last week, and we’d be remiss not to celebrate the truly phenomenal Fall 2024 season that| Northwestern University Press
And just like that...our Fall/Winter 2024 season has come to a close! This season marked the publications of some incredible collections of poetry, essays| Northwestern University Press
We’re one month into 2025, and it’s already been quite a year. Despite the bitter cold here in Evanston and the general veil of uncertainty over| Northwestern University Press
It wasn’t by design—not on my part at least—but when I first held a copy in my hands, I was delighted to discover that Flamboyant| Northwestern University Press
In the summer of 2020, my husband and I bought a 1984 Nimble 20—or in layperson’s terms, a little sailboat—and for two months, we spent as much time as we| Northwestern University Press
It’s 2025, and we are so thrilled to wish you all a very Happy New Year! 2024 was a fantastic year for us, publishing a total of 56 books, ranging from| Northwestern University Press
