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Black Voices on Stage collects ten diverse case studies of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century African American singers and actors whose lives and performances address questions of race, identity, musical expression, and audience reception. tinyurl.com/k6v784ds #ForthcomingFriday
Laura Gray-Rosendale was recently interviewed by ProPublica for a major investigative report. Her memoir, College Girl, revisits the memory of a brutal sexual assault and recounts her long, circuitous route from trauma to recovery. Get it now for 30% off with code SXCGP26 at tinyurl.com/93pd3pks
Nathan Widder dropped by the Hotel Bar Sessions Podcast to discuss his new book Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense: hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/dele...
#DerridaToday Stop by our virtual booth to explore new and recent books in deconstruction, continental #philosophy, critical theory, and more. Save 30% with code SDT26 through August 17, 2026. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/2mmxubc9
Thinking Beyond Materialism takes readers on a journey through the implications of relativity & quantum mechanics, revealing a universe built not on inert matter but on the inner dimensions of human experience, relationship, & a productive, existential ambiguity. tinyurl.com/4ww3sept #NewBookTuesday
#SeriesSpotlight: Encouraging interdisciplinary inquiries, the SUNY series in American Constitutionalism features both traditional and new perspectives on American constitutionalism. Browse the series at tinyurl.com/2fwy3hzj #USConstitution #politics
"…DEATH RIGHTS is daring, original, and a valuable contribution to a scholarly conversation on race and rights that is a long time coming." — EUROPEAN ROMANTIC REVIEW #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/khbrfw6k #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryCriticism,#C19, #Romanticism
"Ebet Roberts aimed her camera lens at the creative maelstrom that was downtown NYC in the 1970s and 1980s, emerging with a visual convergence of music and art caught in its moment of transcendent happening." — Lenny Kaye Preorder New York Punk at sunypress.edu/Books/N/New-... #ForthcomingFriday
Calling all Irigaray scholars! Visit our virtual booth for the #IrigarayCircle Conference & discover what's new in #feministphilosophy, #genderstudies, #continentalphilosophy, psychoanalysis, ethics, & critical theory. Save 30% with code SIC26 through August 11, 2026 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/59p5v5em
Congratulations to our 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award winners! We're proud to celebrate 3 Bronze Winners and 2 Honorable Mentions recognizing excellence in biography, #health, #music, and LGBTQ+ #fiction. Congratulations to all of our authors and editors! #WinnerWednesday
Photographer Ebet Roberts' forthcoming book New York Punk fittingly contains several iconic photos of #PattiSmith, including this one taken at Convention Hall in Asbury Park, NJ, 1978. It perfectly captures Smith's unrivaled passionate intensity onstage. Preorder New York #Punk: tinyurl.com/5aphtywx
#SeriesSpotlight: Horizons of Cinema aims to publish accessible, critical, and appealing studies of the history, production, cultural reception, and social meaning of film, considered either retrospectively or with a view to future developments (or both). Browse the series at tinyurl.com/52vtynhk
Bruce Dearstyne talked with Robert Snyder and the Gotham Center for New York City History about Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change. Listen here: tinyurl.com/3hsektxu #podcast #america250 #newyorkstate
"A rollicking stranger-than-fiction cautionary tale from early twentieth-century New York." — Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism: A History The Ritz with a Shvitz is now available at sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-... #NewBookTuesday
This week's #StaffPick is from Tanja Eise, Director of Sales and Marketing. In all our sixty years of publishing, this bestseller remains a foundational text used in university courses around the US and beyond. So grateful to be its publisher! sunypress.edu/Books/T/This...
"…[a] must-read intellectual biography." — THE PRINT #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/mua7x3n7 #IndianHistory #SouthAsianHistory #PoliticalHistory #PoliticalThought
Wishing a happy book birthday to each of our new books for July 2026! #bookbirthdays #july #newbooks #ReadUP #summerreading #SUNYPress60
"Ingólfsson has done a magnificent job...the narrative moves with the pace of good biography, lucid where the material is tangled, humane throughout, and scrupulous in separating what can be documented from what must be surmised." A great review of Music at World’s End at tinyurl.com/z772ftkz
Explore the #AmericanRevolution and its lasting legacy through the rich historical landscape of #NewYorkState and beyond. Our special sale collection illuminates the many experiences that shaped the nation’s early years. 30% off with code SUS250 thru 7/31/26 at tinyurl.com/ytdpu9uv #America250
Bruce Dearstyne (editor of Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change) on why "historians today may have varying interpretations of what caused the Revolution, just as their predecessors did a century ago." tinyurl.com/tc289dyt #america250 #americanrevolution
"Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York is chock full of fascinating tidbits and it both celebrates and questions the Jazz Age in New York City..." What a wonderful review of @newyork1920s.bsky.social at The Irish Echo: tinyurl.com/yab94hzw #newyorkcity #bookreview #jazzage #nyc
A small staff. A lot of books. Sixty years of scholarship is built by people, not just titles. For our anniversary, we asked staff what that work actually looks like from the inside, and their reflections are honest, and a few are surprising. Read about it of our blog: tinyurl.com/kvcky8zp
Here are some nice photos from last night's event, "An Evening with Maury Yeston, Joshua Rosenblum, and Friends: Book Launch, Conversation, and Song"! Rosenblum's new book on Maury Yeston, A Very Unusual Way, publishes tomorrow.
Today's #StaffPick, Gloria Anzaldúa's Prieta Is Dreaming, comes from Kate Seburyamo in marketing. "...Prieta's story is a foundational piece of the dam against erasure and marginalization Anzaldúa spent her life building." — Kirkus Reviews tinyurl.com/3zcza7e7
Our most recent guest blog post is by James Walters, whose new book, Visions in the Frame: Mise-en-scène Between Film and Television, is now available in paperback. tinyurl.com/26kj2hp4 #blogpost #filmstudies #movies #tv
"…this book is an important addition for any scholar or library looking for an overview of Sufism in America, based on the most up-to-date case studies." — NOVA RELIGIO #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/y8vnx5vw #AmericanSufism #Sufism #IslamicStudies #ReligiousStudies
#SeriesSpotlight: Genders in the Global South takes up the challenge to explore more fully the intersection of critical large categories—gender, sexuality, dislocation/displacement—in addition to questions of identity and generation in the global south. Browse the series at tinyurl.com/3rkza8ue
"...describes with laser-sharp precision the current state of play in both film philosophy and film studies...A highly recommended read for both scholars and lovers of world cinema." — Lúcia Nagib, author of Realist Cinema as World Cinema Preorder in pbk at tinyurl.com/4cn6f9f3 #ForthcomingFriday