French has long had the reputation of being a difficult language. Difficult to speak, for foreigners, and difficult to spell, as both a mother and foreign| Northwestern University Press
The thoroughly revised third edition of the bible of improvisational theater.Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice o...| Northwestern University Press
As I write, internet trolls and Fox News pundits are attacking the city where I was raised, the city where I raise my child. ICE agents are arresting our neighbors... READ MORE| Northwestern University Press
Intimate Inequalities is a study of the everyday performance enacted by migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon, analysing a collection of| Northwestern University Press
The Image That Won’t Go Away by David McGlynn| Northwestern University Press
Everything We Could Do is not an autobiographical novel, but it is rooted to a very personal moment. Two days after my younger son was born, he had| Northwestern University Press
Our Chicago summer was one for the books...literally! We were so pleased to bring such wonderful works into the world. June brought us into the stars with| 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
