I am so excited to be in conversation with Ankur Thakkar, whose debut novel BLOW YOURSELF UP is already long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel prize… 🧵 citylitbooks.com/events/58244...

Printers Row Lit Fest may be over, but you can still get 40% off now through the end of September. Just use discount code BOOKFEST at checkout, and enjoy your newest fall reads. nupress.northwestern.edu

With September already in motion, we're diving into our fall reading list! From the phenomenology of religion, to culture and education in Argentina and Chile, to the materialist strain in Novalis, to German Realism, and beyond, we think we might just learn a thing or two.

📣Sept’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! New Caribbean releases, upcoming events & Aug’s bestsellers at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social! trinidadexpress.com/features/loc... #bocas2026 @ayendy.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @nupress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social

“This is the rare campus novel with as much heart as intellect.” Read the @ala-booklist.bsky.social starred review of LIBERAL ARTS by David McGlynn now! Coming in October from @nupress.bsky.social / TriQuarterly. www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

BLOW YOURSELF UP, Ankur Thakkar's novel about love in the time of infinite scroll and what we sacrifice to be seen, is nearly here! Grab your copy to see why R.O. Kwon calls this "a propulsive, capacious debut". Out September 15.

HOW WE SEE THE GRAY by by Rachel León (Curbstone Press/@nupress.bsky.social). Reviewed by @emilyannwebber.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/how-...

So honored and excited that MUD IN OUR MOUTHS @nupress.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2026 Northern California Book Awards—wish me luck on September 19th! poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...

We love that VOGUE ADRIA chose Rachel Feder's THE TURN as a recent read for its unsettling Gothic atmosphere. As summer turns (ha) to fall, we can't think of a better read. “A smart, controlled, and highly effective piece of storytelling.” —Bloody Flicks

Northwestern University’s Poetry and Poetics Colloquium and Northwestern University Press are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Kim has won the 2025 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize for her collection HOW TO BE HER DAUGHTER.

You can buy DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS @nupress.bsky.social via bookshop or wherever you get books:

Differential Diagnosis: Poems

Undoing traditional psychiatric narratives in this innovative and bold first collectionDrawing from queer, trans, disabled, and Mad poetic traditions, Differential Diagnosis introduces a deeply entang...

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"A silly, naughty, and comforting place to hang out." Hannah Korbel's review of “Bisquick: An American Seance” by C. Russell Price (Triquarterly Books) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/08/18/g...

Grief is a Ghost and That Ghost is Your Boyfriend: On C. Russell Price's "Bisquick: An American Seance" - Chicago Review of Books

On a cool June evening at the Haymarket House in Buena Park, I attended a local writers showcase event hosted by the Chicago Review of Books. A handful of Chicago-based authors read from their soon to...

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thanks so much @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social and @sundresspub.bsky.social for the generous & thorough review of DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS @nupress.bsky.social !!! sundressblog.com/2026/08/12/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Differential Diagnosis - The Sundress Blog

Cavar’s sophomore poetry collection, Differential Diagnosis (Northwestern University Press, 2026) is a visceral dissection of postmodern anxieties through the lens of trans* and Mad experiences. Remin...

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"There was no doubting that Papi was this pigeon. Maybe he was all the pigeons in the world, or only the ones in Brooklyn. Maybe when we die, we all reincarnate as pigeons, the details of our personality visible in the particular hues of their wings, their beaded feet for Catholics." 1/

We're pleased to announce that Daniel Majchrowicz and David Boyk are the winners of the 2026-27 Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize for THE AJEEB SOCIETY, a collection of Urdu short stories by acclaimed writer Qazi Abdul Ghaffar.

The first image presented here is the penultimate page of my most recent full-length poetry collection, IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER, published earlier this year by @nupress.bsky.social.

"I can't imagine feeling less, or caring less. That's not the heart I have," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode. Read "Pardon My Heart" by Marcus Jackson — from PARDON: POEMS — and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4wMKzOV 📖: @nupress.bsky.social

NUP has acquired New Studies in the Age of Goethe, the renowned book series sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America. The series publishes innovative research that contextualizes the “Age of Goethe,” whether within the fields of literature, history, philosophy, art, music, or politics.

The 2026 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! Previous winners include current Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda Del Valle, Ama Codjoe, Jenny Xie, Nicole Sealey, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Prize closes 10/31/26.

Thank you for sharing your favorite Gothic novels with me for the @nupress.bsky.social blog! nupress.northwestern.edu/blog/2026/07...

Eight Writers Share Their Favorite Gothic Novels with Rachel Feder | Northwestern University Press

My spooky novella, The Turn, is out! A Gothic governess story in the nineteenth-century tradition, The Turn is inspired in part by many years of thinking

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Join us in celebrating all things theatre and drama in recognition of ATHE's 2026 conference! Use code ATHE40 at checkout now through July 31 to enjoy 40% off.

Thank you to @nupress.bsky.social for the care package of books ❤️‍🩹 screaming and crying over C. Russell Price and Elizabeth Crane 💙🩵💙

If you've spent your weekend thinking about the sound a bow makes when plucked, about duty to guests, divine or otherwise, and about stories that we tell and retell for thousands of years, we have the reading list for you.

HAR MAR by Hilal Isler is here! The women in HAR MAR are all on the verge of something—success, rebellion, revelation—and they want to disappear as much as they want to be seen. Moving back and forth between Turkey and the United States, these stories trace migrations both physical and emotional.

All we want is a nice crisp salad. Maybe some fresh berries. But I guess we can't have that. Here's what we're reading instead.

🏠💀New review! 💀🏠 The Turn by @rachelfeder.bsky.social from @nupress.bsky.social "A short, sharp, deliciously written gothic potboiler that simmers along right up until the moment it explodes in your face"

Review: The Turn by Rachel Feder | FanFiAddict

Synopsis When Baxter, a young writer and recent college graduate, accepts a live-in nanny position for an affluent professor’s family in the foothills of th ...

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Hershel Parker. #MelvilleMonday bsky.app/profile/hest... "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing." —Chapter 5 of Book IV of Herman Melville’s Pierre bsky.app/profile/nupr...

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Please join us in celebrating his life and works. nupress.northwestern.edu/blog/2026/07...

Just having a little cry reading this opening excerpt of a review of all three of my books by the amazing @erinvachon.bsky.social in the summer issue of The Missouri Review missourireview.com/article/the-...

We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of Hershel Parker, our friend, our author, and our partner with whom we had the joy and privilege of maintaining a decades long collaboration. Over the course of half a century, Parker shepherded The Writings of Herman Melville.

Read Salma Hussain's review of Sima Qadeer's Brown Girls, Grown Up (pub. @nupress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...In the end, it is this underlying, pulsating message of self-love in Sima Qadeer’s debut ... that is the most taboo and radical of all. www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-qade...