What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist itAlgorithms are everywhere, organizing th...| NYU Press
A deep dive into food and Asian American cultureAsian American-inspired foods are everywhere—or so it seems. A decade ago, chop suey, sushi, curry, adobo, ...| NYU Press
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread thro...| NYU Press
We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are c...| NYU Press
Monica J. Casper and Eric Wertheimer are the editors of Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life. MJC: With the reelection of Donald Trump, it feels... READ MORE| NYU Press
A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugeeIn the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Ir...| NYU Press
As a legal academic, I feel lucky to have a job that allows me to spend my time in the pursuit of knowledge, truth, and lifelong learning. My latest book,... READ MORE| NYU Press
Originally published by UC Newsroom on March 28, 2024. Written by Julia Busiek. Safiya Umoja Noble swears she is not a Luddite. But she does think we could all learn... READ MORE| NYU Press
Italian and Irish immigrant experiencesWhen people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. The idea of rites of passage—with...| NYU Press
Examples of trans youth using digital platforms to learn more and find support existed as early as 1989, and they were an irregular presence within established trans spaces online. By... READ MORE| NYU Press
What is the omnivore’s deception? “The omnivore’s deception,” as I call it, is the idea that we can go on raising and killing other animals for food without harming animals,... READ MORE| NYU Press
Article originally published on DemocracyNow.org June 27, 2014. As the United States prepares to celebrate Independence Day, we look at why July 4 is not a cause for celebration for... READ MORE| NYU Press
This excerpt is part of an essay written by Richard Attfield, which describes his experiences within special education and the support he received from his mother outside of his schooling.... READ MORE| NYU Press
Your book, Unequal Lessons, begins with a quote from W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1935 essay “Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?” It reads, in part: “Other things being equal, the mixed school... READ MORE| NYU Press
Article originally written by C. Brian Smith for Mel Magazine. The fourth chapter of Jane Ward’s new book, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, imagines a dinner party with 60 of Ward’s queer friends... READ MORE| NYU Press
Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago’s steel mill neighborhoods. Dra...| NYU Press
Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful courtConsorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-...| NYU Press
Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam...| NYU Press
Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the ...| NYU Press
The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from hi...| NYU Press
Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Animals & NatureThe surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to...| NYU Press
Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle EastThis popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater p...| NYU Press
Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' AssociationThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—t...| NYU Press
Originally Published in How to Queer the World On its face, What the Golf seems like a strange candidate for queer interpretation. Given that the game has no narrative elements,... READ MORE| NYU Press
America is in decline. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. When that decline began is debatable, but few would honestly say things are “going well” right now.... READ MORE| NYU Press
What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapseWhat does it mean to live at the end of life, the end of a family l...| NYU Press
Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York CityIn the two decades that preceded the ...| NYU Press
The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half centuryBoth fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biol...| NYU Press
What do migrants do, feel, think, eat, and carry with them—on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants... READ MORE| NYU Press
Following up on the influential Eating Asian America, Eating More Asian America explores how this subfield of food studies changed in the last ten years. Below is an excerpt of... READ MORE| NYU Press
You interviewed 75 people for this book. What was that experience like? Did anything stand out to you in the interviews? Writing this book was unlike any writing experience I... READ MORE| NYU Press
As Arab American Heritage Month draws to a close, we encourage readers to expand their own definition of the “canon.” In history and literature courses, it can sometimes seem like... READ MORE| NYU Press
On Monday, January 20, Donald Trump was sworn in for the second time as President of the United States of America. On Sunday evening, the day before his inauguration, he... READ MORE| NYU Press
Ten days after NYU Press published my new book, Republic of Dreams, I arrived in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq carrying an ancient black duffle bag that – tipping the... READ MORE| NYU Press
We’re living in an era of neverending political chaos and mass environmental destruction (to put it mildly). People — perhaps especially young people — are pessimistic about the future of the planet, and the future... READ MORE| NYU Press
As you assert in the book, reproduction is not a marginal issue — it is not just a women’s issue, and it should be treated as integral to how we... READ MORE| NYU Press
A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to in...| NYU Press
History is messy. We try to grant the people in our own present-day lives the space to be complicated, but we sometimes forget that people in the past were complicated,... READ MORE| NYU Press
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for “Black girls”...| NYU Press
In October of 2022, two environmental activists walked into room 43 of The National Gallery in London and threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s 1888 painting Sunflowers. As the yellow... READ MORE| NYU Press
Cheryl Troupe and Doris Jeanne MacKinnon are co-editors of Métis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition, published by University of Regina Press Metis women, generally of advanced age, hold a place of... READ MORE| NYU Press
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we want to acknowledge how the oppression of Indigenous populations shaped the United States and what can be done to remediate it. Each... READ MORE| NYU Press
Let’s start with the very questions with which you open To Be a Jewish State, and some basic definitions of the terms you employ. Can you explain the differences between “Judaism” and... READ MORE| NYU Press
Originally Published by Slixa In the ever-changing world of sex work, the newly released book Sex Work Today edited by Bernadette Barton, Barbara G. Brents, and Angela Jones offers a groundbreaking... READ MORE| NYU Press
Vincent Collette is co-author of Nakón-wico’i’e né uspénic’iciyac / Practising Nakoda: A Thematic Dictionary, published by University of Regina Press. Like many Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, the Nakoda... READ MORE| NYU Press
This October, you joined NYU Press as our Director. What drew you to NYU, and how has your professional background informed your new role? When asked in my interview why... READ MORE| NYU Press
You begin the book with your own personal “hair story,” and describe how hair care connected you to your mother by giving you all quality time spent together. How did... READ MORE| NYU Press
Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Di...| NYU Press