Need/Emergency by Benjamin Lewis Robinson is out! "Need/Emergency articulates an illuminating argument about the special relation between theatricality and politics in the modern era." —Kevin McLaughlin, Brown University https://ow.ly/C55050ZvYGg

Happy publication day to Profiling! In this book, philosopher Philippe Huneman aims to offer an unprecedented and systematic understanding of a simultaneously banal and singular phenomenon of modern life: the digital profile. https://ow.ly/PSPq50ZvYp0 #ReadUP

Adorned is, at its heart, a defense of poetry. Its broadest claim is that common readers in the Romantic age embraced poetry, or language adorned, as a means of completing, elevating, honoring, and praising—gestures that are as challenging and as essential today as ever. https://ow.ly/ukS350ZvZxh

Adorned is, at its heart, a defense of poetry. Its broadest claim is that common readers in the Romantic age embraced poetry, or language adorned, as a means of completing, elevating, honoring, and praising—gestures that are as challenging and as essential today as ever. https://ow.ly/ukS350ZvZxh

August is Women in Translation Month! Introducing Dina Kalinovskaya (1934-2008), translated into English for the first time by Harriet Murav & me for our new book with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. She was from and wrote about Odesa; I especially loved working on this paragraph about the Odesa harbor.

A new review of @profmarycollier.bsky.social's @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, 'Reimagining Aid,' in Pacific Affairs: "[...] rare, ground-level insights into how aid is experienced and negotiated by those implementing it." ⬇️

Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women's Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia

Published in Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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NEW IN STOCK - Diving into algorithms, Huneman examines the way in which an individual becomes a predictable subject, both due to their digital profile and unwitting subject of digital marketing's attempts to influence beliefs and behaviors. 📚️ buff.ly/1COhUqZ @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Need/Emergency by Benjamin Lewis Robinson is out! "Need/Emergency articulates an illuminating argument about the special relation between theatricality and politics in the modern era." —Kevin McLaughlin, Brown University https://ow.ly/C55050ZvYGg

Happy publication day to Profiling! In this book, philosopher Philippe Huneman aims to offer an unprecedented and systematic understanding of a simultaneously banal and singular phenomenon of modern life: the digital profile. https://ow.ly/PSPq50ZvYp0 #ReadUP

LBI Fellow Jordan Katz Publishes New Book on Jewish Midwives Congratulations to Jordan Katz, from LBI’s 2016/17 fellowship cohort, on the publication of her monograph Delivering Knowledge, which appeared in April 2026 with Stanford University Press. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/06...

August is Women in Translation Month: one of the writers Harriet Murav & I translated for our new book is Rivka Rubin--a Soviet Yiddish author now published in English for the 1st time. We have two stories of hers in the book; here's an excerpt from "That Kind of Day.” @stanfordpress.bsky.social 1/2

My book has gotten its first review! Thank you very much to @tdocarmo.bsky.social for taking the time to do it. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Review of “Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia”

Mary-Collier Wilks opens Reimagining Aid at a USAID workshop in Phnom Penh where a debate erupts over whether Western ideas about gender empowerment can co

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"The ethnography is vivid, the practitioner-centered approach overdue, and the aid chain framework offers a valuable lens for understanding how norms travel and transform." 👏 Learn more about Reimagining Aid (@stanfordpress.bsky.social): www.sup.org/books/sociol...

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My book has gotten its first review! Thank you very much to @tdocarmo.bsky.social for taking the time to do it. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

With close readings and innovative theoretical paradigms, Common Measures recasts the relationship of the Romantic period to the basic terms of modernity. 📚 buff.ly/ujctsPk Visit MNGs exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/TiIMH7o @stanfordpress.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

The Arms Control Paradox began years ago as a simple question: how do we build lasting agreements in a world where technology outruns treaties? This week, my author copies arrived from @stanfordpress.bsky.social. To everyone who challenged my ideas or encouraged me—thank you. lnkd.in/enmfXVyT

OTD in 1966, Batman the movie premiered. It was the summer of the Bat, with a concert at Shea Stadium and Andy Warhol and Nico in a cosplay photoshoot. Reportedly, producer Tom Wilson scheduled recording sessions so he could get home to watch. #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

July 1965, Dylan went electric at Newport, yes. But the background was Tom Wilson's producing Bringing It All Back Home, side 1 in January, which ends with a track introduced by Wilson's own giddy laughter ("Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"). #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

In today's fast-moving business world, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) plays a critical yet often misunderstood role. Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles's Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO offers a deep dive into what it takes to succeed as a second-in-command. https://ow.ly/pzIR50ZtAxO

Iran is home to one of the largest Middle Eastern Jewish communities outside of Israel, numbering around 10,000 people today. Jewish Iran by Daniel Amir explores the 20th C history of Iranian Jews as they grappled with global political movements & Iranian national identity https://ow.ly/B52E50ZtB2W

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the regional economy across Korea and Japan during the Korean War. https://ow.ly/ycfQ50ZtAQs

Iran is home to one of the largest Middle Eastern Jewish communities outside of Israel, numbering around 10,000 people today. Jewish Iran by Daniel Amir explores the 20th C history of Iranian Jews as they grappled with global political movements & Iranian national identity https://ow.ly/B52E50ZtB2W

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the regional economy across Korea and Japan during the Korean War. https://ow.ly/ycfQ50ZtAQs

Drawing on diverse British sources, this book explores the links between religion and sexuality, highlighting the contingency of the categories used to understand them. Browse our virtual #BAVS2026 exhibition here: buff.ly/TnA2pdr #VictorianStudies @bavs-uk.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

In today's fast-moving business world, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) plays a critical yet often misunderstood role. Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles's Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO offers a deep dive into what it takes to succeed as a second-in-command. https://ow.ly/pzIR50ZtAxO

Excited for the upcoming publication of 'Lives in Limbo' by UQ's Gerhard Hoffstaedter, our former LKS NUS-Stanford fellow on Southeast Asia. Published by APARC with @stanfordpress.bsky.social, the book explores refugee place-making and survival in Malaysia.

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How do refugees create meaningful lives amid systematic exclusion? Based on over seventeen years of research, including two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, this book follows Chin and…

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Behind Tom Wilson's work with The Velvet Underground and Zappa in 1966-67 was a fascinating early stereo experiment he produced in 1962, Pop+Jazz=Swing. The genres were recorded on left and right channels so you could play either or both at once! #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

Two gifts for you to start the week: a photo of my new puppy checking out my author copies hot off the press; and a coupon to pre-order my new book for 20% off. Please share! (The puppy hasn't chewed my books yet even though he has destroyed two library books so far. His taste skews historical YA)

The @waterstones.bsky.social 25% Off RRP On Upcoming Books promotion is in its final hours 👇

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Hello UK friends! Three of our books are featured in Waterstones' 25% Off RRP On Upcoming Books summer promotion: Shakespeare's Tragedies by Robert N. Watson, Everything Is Everything by Steven E. Jones and Almanach by Helen Solterer. For offer details: https://ow.ly/PQEy50ZrA80

Hello readers in the UK! Almanach: A Natural History of Time and Fiction by Helen Solterer is part of @waterstones.bsky.social's 25% Off RRP On Upcoming Books summer promotion. Use code SUMMER26 at checkout to get the discount www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul...

Hello music lovers in the UK! Everything Is Everything by @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social is part of @waterstones.bsky.social's 25% Off RRP On Upcoming Books summer promotion. Use code SUMMER26 at checkout to get the discount Details: www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul...