New #OpenAccess book drop! AUTOTHEORY AND ITS OTHERS, a metacritical conversation that showcases this emergent genre’s diversity while also charting its multivalent future directions. FREE to download here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
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The Later Years of the CPUSA Reconsidered: a review of vol. 1 of RED LIVES: Our Years in the US Communist Party (1950-2000): mronline.org/2026/07/30/t... "Citing their own experiences, they show that the CP remained a significant influence on the country’s political development into the 1990s."
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The McCarthy Era and the controversies of the 1960s and 1970s might not seem terribly relevant to a new generation of activists. But the old questions remain, and the left still needs to confront them...
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Very happy to have a piece in Autotheory and its Others, out now from @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
GRATEFUL to the Zurich University of the Arts Library for supporting us via the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! This is #library funding for #OpenAccess #Books in action. Every book we publish is a gift from libraries! 🥳 tinyurl.com/2j58z4hp
Punctum Books Library Program Welcomes the Zurich University of the Arts
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"California is a death cult..." this was just recommended to me and i was pleasantly to surprised to see it's offered by @punctumbooks.bsky.social !! punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
The Case of California — punctum books
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Dissident sexualities and the rewiring of queer intimacies during a pandemic in 1980s Brazil: read the first English translation of Nestor Ponce's THE SPECTERS OF AIDS, released this week #OpenAccess! FREE to download here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5... #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Brazil
New from @punctumbooks.bsky.social — Autotheory and its Others, edited by Becky McLaughlin, Eric Daffron, Maria Gil Ulldemolins, and Kris Pint. Includes a piece by Jeremy Stewart titled ‘A Note on the Impossible Novel: For Roland Barthes’. punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
Autotheory and Its Others — punctum books
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Join the adventure of your dreams at the link in bio 🌏 Poetry Review: J. Michael Wahlgren Reads Eric Weiskott’s Collection Cycle of Dreams @punctumbooks.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/07/27/c...
Poetry Review: J. Michael Wahlgren Reads Eric Weiskott’s Collection Cycle of Dreams
In Cycle of Dreams, Eric Weiskott presents this notion of an individual on a quest. It’s a common notion in literature to be on a quest, whether that quest be spiritual or a journey from one physic…
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"Weiskott takes us on an adventure using imaginatif. He reveals his “Inner Dream” through his word choice and through his own mortality." – Poetry Review: J. Michael Wahlgren Reads Eric Weiskott’s Collection Cycle of Dreams Read it here: heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/07/27/c...
Poetry Review: J. Michael Wahlgren Reads Eric Weiskott’s Collection Cycle of Dreams
In Cycle of Dreams, Eric Weiskott presents this notion of an individual on a quest. It’s a common notion in literature to be on a quest, whether that quest be spiritual or a journey from one physic…
heavyfeatherreview.org
punctum author Liam Mitchell on parasocialism! youtu.be/DgzhqgSTtvg?...
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What should I do? What's the right thing? In INNER CONFLICTS, Sana Sheikh brings her reader right to the center of what it is to live a feeling-filled inner, relational, and socio-political life, that is, a life with ambivalence. New #OpenAccess book drop; FREE to download: tinyurl.com/5e7kkk46
Inner Conflicts — punctum books
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Reflecting on the life of Frank Rosenblatt, queer pioneer in early AI, in light of punctum book -- part poetry, part cultural biography -- on Rosenblatt's legacy, PERCEPTRON, by James Dobson and Rena Mosteirin: www.ronslate.com/frank-rosenb... DOWNLOAD book here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
“Frank Rosenblatt in Passing: The Rebirth of the Mimetic Impulse” – On the Seawall
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How might the inarticulate (or inarticulable) communicate in the sounds of poetry? And how might poetry teach us to attend to what is beyond language or even beyond figuration? NEW #OpenAccess book drop! Jocelyn Saidenberg's ECHO OTHERWISE. FREE download here: tinyurl.com/2zv8smuj #poetry #verse
Echo Otherwise: A Poetics of Sound and Loss in Ancient and Contemporary Poetry — punctum books
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WE'RE 15! punctum books, a SCHOLAR-led & QUEER-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since. 500+ books and counting! Help us celebrate by becoming a subscriber! punctumbooks.com/support/ #GIVE #DONATE #BOOKS
GRATEFUL to the Newcastle University Library for supporting us via the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! This is #library funding for #OpenAccess #Books in action. Every book we publish is a gift from libraries! 🥳 tinyurl.com/3xpubkez
Punctum Books Library Program Welcomes the Newcastle University Library
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"And if my double had its double too? Would its double be me then?" "WHO IS I?" An interview with Alta Ifland, author of punctum's re-release of Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice (originally published by Les Figues Press). modernliterature.org/who-is-i-an-... #poetry #autobiography #translation
“Who is I?” - An Interview with Alta Ifland by John Taylor
“Who is I?” An Interview with Alta Ifland by John Taylor I have enjoyed a stimulating connection with Alta Ifland’s Voix de Glace / Voice of Ice ever since the book was first issued by Les Figues Pr...
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I recorded this ages ago for my peers and colleagues at @punctumbooks.bsky.social. There's several 5" lathes for the staff. I need to figure out getting to them, but in the meantime, I thought I'd share it digitally, given the whole context. hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/bump-o...
bump onto suck, by kevin sanders
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How might the inarticulate (or inarticulable) communicate in the sounds of poetry? And how might poetry teach us to attend to what is beyond language or even beyond figuration? NEW #OpenAccess book drop! Jocelyn Saidenberg's ECHO OTHERWISE. FREE download here: tinyurl.com/2zv8smuj #poetry #verse
What should I do? What's the right thing? In INNER CONFLICTS, Sana Sheikh brings her reader right to the center of what it is to live a feeling-filled inner, relational, and socio-political life, that is, a life with ambivalence. New #OpenAccess book drop; FREE to download: tinyurl.com/5e7kkk46
What should I do? What's the right thing? In INNER CONFLICTS, Sana Sheikh brings her reader right to the center of what it is to live a feeling-filled inner, relational, and socio-political life, that is, a life with ambivalence. New #OpenAccess book drop; FREE to download: tinyurl.com/5e7kkk46
So excited to read this! If you’ve been waiting to snag your free or physical copy of what we’re lovingly calling HOGS, now’s a great time!
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion@punctumbooks.bsky.social · last mo.Big news: Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be is a 2026 IPPY Awards Finalist! 🎉 We're incredibly proud to see this work in game studies receive national recognition. Read the book here: tinyurl.com/98t48we9
GRATEFUL to the University of Stavanger Library for supporting us via the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! This is #library funding for #OpenAccess #Books in action. It takes a community & every book we publish is a gift from libraries! 🥳 tinyurl.com/39y9wh8e
Punctum Books Library Program Welcomes the University of Stavanger Library
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In today's 'Things You May Not Have Realised', the OBC and its publisher members are so committed to bibliodiversity, we even have a text in Klingon in our catalogue! May we present @punctumbooks.bsky.social's 'paq'batlh: The Klingon Epic'!
paq'batlh: The Klingon Epic
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How might the inarticulate (or inarticulable) communicate in the sounds of poetry? And how might poetry teach us to attend to what is beyond language or even beyond figuration? NEW #OpenAccess book drop! Jocelyn Saidenberg's ECHO OTHERWISE. FREE download here: tinyurl.com/2zv8smuj #poetry #verse
Maria Galli Stampino's review essay "History, Autobiography, Mythography: Luisa Passerini's Writings" in Italian Americana XLIII, No. 2, discusses "In Defense of Don Giovanni. A Feminist Mythobiography" by Luisa Passerini (@punctumbooks.bsky.social). scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
Jocelyn Saidenberg’s Echo Otherwise, published by @punctumbooks.bsky.social, listens to sound and loss across ancient and contemporary poetry. Open access, free PDF: 🐚 sonicfield.org/echo-otherwi...
Yet another award nomination for a book made by one of our publisher members. Congratulations @punctumbooks.bsky.social and all the editors and authors! 🎉
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion@punctumbooks.bsky.social · last mo.Big news: Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be is a 2026 IPPY Awards Finalist! 🎉 We're incredibly proud to see this work in game studies receive national recognition. Read the book here: tinyurl.com/98t48we9
Big news: Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be is a 2026 IPPY Awards Finalist! 🎉 We're incredibly proud to see this work in game studies receive national recognition. Read the book here: tinyurl.com/98t48we9