Spring 2024 University Press Recommendations

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Spring 2024 Book Recommendations by . . .

General Interest
World Cultural Studies
American Studies
Ancient and Medieval Studies
SF / Fantasy / Horror Studies

Some notes about my recommendations:

• The lists below are organized alphabetically by the author surname.

• These recommendations reflect my personal interests as well as my scholarly ones, and as such cannot wholly capture all the many hundreds of interesting, worthwhile, and significant books put out by university presses this season.

General Interest

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Alani, The Flavors of Iraq: Impressions of My Vanished Homeland (Penn State)

Almond, The Buddha: Life and Afterlife Between East and West (Cambridge)

Aurell, What Is a Classic in History? The Making of a Historical Canon (Cambridge)

Benjamin, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (Princeton)

Berglund, Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age (Bloomsbury)

Berne, The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers (Chicago)

Blake and Gilman, Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises (Stanford)

Bollmer and Guiness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube (Stanford)

Bowen and Watson, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins)

De Cruz, Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think (Princeton)

Drew, Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke)

Driscoll, What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age (Bloomsbury)

Eagleton, The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form (Yale)

Edmans, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do About It (California)

Frankel, Extinctions: From Dinosaurs to You (Chicago)

Ghilarducci, Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy (Chicago)

Guenther, The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It (Oxford)

Haerdle, Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation (MIT)

Jones, A History of Mysticism (SUNY)

Kadlecová, Cyber Sovereignty: The Future of Governance in Cyberspace (Stanford)

Kory-Westlund, Grad School Life: Surviving and Thriving Beyond Coursework and Research (Columbia)

Lewis, The Public Humanities Turn: The University as an Instrument of Cultural Transformation (Johns Hopkins)

Martínez-Vu and Chavez-Garcia, Is Grad School for Me? Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students (California)

Mejias and Couldry, Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back (Chicago)

Morton, Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology (Columbia)

Negri, trans. by Emergy, Story of a Communist: A Memoir (Eris)

Nelson, Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film (Rutgers)

Niekerk, Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism (Penn State)

Pálsson, The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction (Princeton)

Petre, All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists (Princeton)

Rahman, Muslim Women and Misogyny: Myths and Misunderstandings (Hurst)

Said, ed. by Capitain, Said on Opera (Columbia)

Sasser, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future (California)

Sinnreich and Gilbert, The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance (MIT)

Stanfill, Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture (NYU)

Stonechild, Challenge to Civilization: Indigenous Wisdom and the Future (Regina)

Tassier, The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks (Johns Hopkins)

Tsing, et al., Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature (Stanford)

Ward, Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram (California)

Wyatt, Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem (Texas)

Zola and Zola, Teaching as if Students Matter: A Guide to Creating Classrooms Based on Relationships and Engaged Learning (SUNY)

World Cultural Studies

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Abman, Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan (Toronto)

Adamovsky, A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present (Duke)

Aijazi, Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (Penn Press)

Aldhouse-Green, Enchanted Wales: Myth and Magic in Welsh Storytelling (Wales)

Alidou, Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders (Michigan)

Badder and Norman, The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (Wales)

Barenberg: The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)

Baruah, The Contest for the Indian Ocean: And the Return of Great Power Politics (Yale)

Benton, They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton)

Benvenuti, Nehru’s Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy (Hurst)

Biswas, Passages through India: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 (Cambridge)

Blanc, The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil (Duke)

Bose, Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century (Harvard)

Brandenberger, ed. and trans., Stalin’s Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR (Stanford)

Braw, Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (Yale)

Brintlinger, Why We Need Russian Literature: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others (Bloomsbury)

Brokaw and Garcia Loaeza, eds.,The Nahua: Language and Culture from the Sixteenth Century to the Present (Colorado)

Carey-Webb, Eyes on Amazonia: Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier (Vanderbilt)

Casteel, Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art (Columbia)

Cho, Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy (Michigan)

Cook, A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (Princeton)

Coon, The Serpent’s Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement (SUNY)

Davis, Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union (Bloomsbury)

Dove, Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History (Yale)

Dwivedi and Mohan, Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics (Hurst)

Eedy, Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic (Berghahn)

Elia-Shalev, Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth (California)

Elverskog, A History of Uyghur Buddhism (Columbia)

Emerson, The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century (Hurst)

Ertürk, Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union (Columbia)

Falk and von Sponeck, Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope (Stanford)

Ferguson, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema

Fernández-Armesto and Giraldo, How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History (Reaktion)

Feygin, Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform (Harvard)

Flannery, Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (Penn Press)

Forth, Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement (Toronto)

Germond, Seapower in the Post-Modern World (McGill-Queen’s)

Givens and Trauschweizer, eds., Berlin and the Cold War (Ohio University)

Grandpierron, Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline (McGill-Queen’s)

Green, Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal (California)

Guingona, China and the Philippines: A Connected History, c. 1900–50 (Cambridge)

Harms, The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998 (Pittsburgh)

Hatch, Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790–1840 (Penn State)

Healey, The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin’s Labour Camps (Yale)

Heitzer, et al., eds., After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR (Berghahn)

Hendessi, The Kurds: The Struggle for National Identity and Statehood (Agenda)

Hoffman, Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps, 1915–1918 (Duke)

Jarquín, The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History (North Carolina)

Jian, Zhou Enlai: A Life (Harvard)

Johnston, Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969 (Stanford)

Jonas, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire (Harvard)

Karatnycky, Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia (Yale)

Keith, Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France (California)

Kent, The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste (Wisconsin)

Kimmage, Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability (Oxford)

Kirschenbaum, Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip (Cambridge)

Kudaibergen, What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani? Power, Identity and Nation-Building (Hurst)

Lee, Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora (Illinois)

Lerner, Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (Toronto)

Lewis, Occupation: Russian Rule in South-Eastern Ukraine (Hurst)

Li, A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge)

Lim, The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema (Duke)

Lin, When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia (Princeton)

Long, Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought (Bloomsbury)

Mandhwani, Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India (Massachusetts)

Mathews, Zanzibar Was a Country: Exile and Citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf (California)

Matsumura, Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan’s Empire (Duke)

Middleton, Quinine’s Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter (California)

Mishra, V. S. Naipaul and World Literature (Cambridge)

Muir, Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen (Yale)

Mullaney, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (MIT)

Niehuus, An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo (Duke)

Nilsson, Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury)

Ogden, Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River: The Global Fight for Indian Independence and Citizenship (Oregon State)

Orme, The History of England’s Cathedrals (Yale)

Palen, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton)

Pang, Singer of the Land of Snows: Shabkar, Buddhism, and Tibetan National Identity (Virginia)

Patton, A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era (Ohio State)

Petrović, Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People’s Army (Duke)

Pulford, Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea (Stanford)

Rai, Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema (Cambridge)

Rele Sathe, The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood: Cinema, Popular Culture, and Identity (Intellect)

Reshetnikov, Chasing Greatness: On Russia’s Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium (Michigan)

Riley, Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire (Harvard)

Robertson, Mediating Spaces: Literature, Politics, and the Scales of Yugoslav Socialism, 1870–1995 (McGill-Queen’s)

Robinson-Smith, Of Canoes and Crocodiles: Paddling the Sepik in Papua New Guinea (Alberta)

Ross, Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World (Princeton)

Roy, The Political Outsider:Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism (Stanford)

Samuels, Alfred Dreyfus:The Man at the Center of the Affair (Yale)

Sharma, Crossing the Border to India: Youth, Migration, and Masculinities in Nepal (Temple)

Shinzato and Iwasaki, Basic Okinawan: From Conversation to Grammar

Sierra, The Roma and the Holocaust: The Romani Genocide under Nazism (Bloomsbury)

Sircar, Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India (Cambridge)

Slate, The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India (Pittsburgh)

Smith, Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan (Penn Press)

Sommer, The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia)

Stewart, Legitimating Nationalism: Political Identity in Russia’s Ethnic Republics (Wisconsin)

Subrahmanyam, Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 (Texas)

Taki, Russia’s Turkish Wars: The Tsarist Army and the Balkan Peoples in the Nineteenth Century (Toronto)

Teixeira, A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal (Princeton)

Tesster, Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics (Stanford)

Toal, Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe (Oxford)

Touloumi, Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior (Minnesota)

Trim and Simms, eds., Harfleur to Hamburg: Five Centuries of English and British Violence in Europe (Hurst)

Tsuchiya, Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010

Walker, Yukikaze’s War: The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific (Cambridge)

Weinberg, Jews under Tsars and Communists: The Four Questions (Bloomsbury)

Welker, Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia (California)

Widener, Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity (Duke)

Wiseman, Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945–1970 (Toronto)

Wolfson-Ford, Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos (Wisconsin)

Xydias, Beyond Left, Right, and Center: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Germany (Temple)

Yordanov, Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991 (Stanford)

Zhang, Chinese Signs: An Introduction to China’s Linguistic Landscape (Cambridge)

American Studies

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Aguiló-Pérez, An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play (Berghahn)

Alff, The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region (Chicago)

Anderson, Voodoo: An African American Religion (LSU)

Anderson and Anderson, Iñupiat of the Sii: Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges (Alaska)

Asai Loftus, From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace (Oregon State)

Boomhower, The Ultimate Protest: Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World (New Mexico)

Brier, Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 (Iowa)

Casey, The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image (NYU)

Cheezu, Chessie: A Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster (Johns Hopkins)

Cherny, San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958 (Illinois)

Clark, Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation (California)

Dennison, Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future (North Carolina)

Docherty, The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles (SUNY)

Dowland, We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump (Virginia)

Ehrbar, Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids (Mississippi)

Etulain, Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose: 1800 to the Present (Nevada)

Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia)

Feld, The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism (NYU)

Felkor-Kantor, DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools (North Carolina)

Feola, The Rage of Replacement: Far Right Politics and Demographic Fear (Minnesota)

Floyd, Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas: Identity in the Unexpurgated Repertoire of Stan Hugill (Mississippi)

Folse, The Globe and Anchor Men: U.S. Marines and American Manhood in the Great War Era (Kansas)

Gasman and Esters, HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Johns Hopkins)

Gibbs, Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide (Columbia)

Goss, F*ck The Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (NYU)

Guise, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II (Washington)

Hamilton, Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess (Georgia)

Hastie, Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder (Duke)

Haygood, Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World (Kentucky)

Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia)

Huegel, Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest (Washington)

Judge, Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism in America (Columbia)

Kahrl, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (Chicago)

Kaminski, The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement after Apollo (Pittsburgh)

Khalil, A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden (Harvard)

Kirner, American Druidry: Crafting the Wild Soul (Bloomsbury)

Krasuska, Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction (Rutgers)

Kroll-Zeldin, Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine (NYU)

Lampros, Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America (Johns Hopkins)

Lavery, Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom (Duke)

Leonard, Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s (Rutgers)

Li, Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War (Columbia)

Linker, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (Princeton)

Liu, Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression (Illinois)

Lockwood, Golden Ages: Hasidic Singers and Cantorial Revival in the Digital Era (California)

Long, Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System (Texas)

Loock, Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture (California)

Marrs, The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History (Johns Hopkins)

Mascarenhas, Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan’s Water War (California)

McCulla, Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans (Chicago)

McLeod, Unveiling the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness (Massachusetts)

McNally, Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness (Nebraska)

Meléndez-Badillo, Puerto Rico: A National History (Princeton)

Mock, Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (Virginia)

Moore, The Witch of Pungo: Grace Sherwood in Virginia History and Legend (Virginia)

Moser, Waikīkī Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture (Illinois)

Newbury, Cold War Photographic Diplomacy: The US Information Agency and Africa (Penn State)

Nguyễn, Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production (Temple)

Peach, Rivers of Power: Creek Political Culture in the Native South, 1750–1815 (Oklahoma)

Pfitzer, “From Boys to Men”: The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series (Massachusetts)

Prats, Hollywood’s Imperial Wars: The Vietnam Generation and the American Myth of Heroic Continuity (Oklahoma)

Price, Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty (Virginia)

Rizzo-Martinez, We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California (Nebraska)

Roady, The Contest over National Security: FDR, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American Politics (Harvard)

Saikal, How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan (Yale)

Schlereth, Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America (North Carolina)

Schneider, Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture (Texas)

Scott, Land of Extraction: Property, Fracking, and Settler Colonialism (NYU)

Singer, Class-Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania (SUNY)

Slotkin, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America (Harvard)

Sperling, Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America (Michigan)

Stokes and Atkins-Sayre, Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia’s Search for Resilience (South Carolina)

Ternullo, How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics (Princeton)

Thompson, Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism (North Carolina)

Tsuria, Keeping Women in Their Digital Place: The Maintenance of Jewish Gender Norms Online (Penn State)

Tyner, The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics (Minnesota)

Walsh, Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right (Yale)

Wiegand, In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries (Mississippi)

Wiewora, Sins of Christendom: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Evangelicalism (Illinois)

Wilkinson, Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights (Washington)

Yamashita, Carceral Entanglements: Gendered Public Memories of Japanese American World War II Incarceration (Temple)

Young, Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right (Chicago)

Zarifian, The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics (Rutgers)

Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern Studies

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Bazaz, Nund Rishi: Poetry and Politics in Medieval Kashmir (Cambridge)

Cline, After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Princeton)

Cline and Fawkes, 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton)

de la Bédoyère, Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome (Chicago)

Dekker, Recovering Old English (Cambridge)

Goodman, Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Yale)

Grethlein, Reading the Odyssey: A Guide to Homer’s Narrative (Princeton)

Jaffe, Food in Ancient China (Cambridge)

Kellogg, A Concise History of the Aztecs (Cambridge)

Laguens, Perspectivism in Archaeology: Insights into Indigenous Theories of Reality (Cambridge)

Lal, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan (Yale)

Lowe, Modern Linguistics in Ancient India (Cambridge)

McBride, The Three Kingdoms of Korea: Lost Civilizations (Reaktion)

O’Donoghue and Parker, eds., The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature (Cambridge)

Reece, The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic (Yale)

Richards and Cummings, The Stone Circles: A Field Guide (Yale)

Roberts, Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture (Princeton)

Schniedewind, Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes (Princeton)

Shaul, Piros and Prehistory: A Study in Tanoan (Utah)

Tyler, trans., The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan (Columbia)

Videen, The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary (Princeton)

Wirts, A Peddler’s Tale: Religious Exile and Community in Early Modern Switzerland (Louisiana State)

SF / Fantasy / Horror Studies

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Backes, Spectral Spain: Haunted Houses, Silent Spaces and Traumatic Memories in Post-Franco Gothic Fiction (Wales)

Barnholden, From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics (Mississippi)

Behrooz, Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Cartographies (Bloomsbury)

Bisson, Tomorrowing (Duke)

Boucher, et al., eds., Space Feminisms: People, Planets, Power (Bloomsbury)

Buhs, Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers (Chicago)

Claverie, Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero (Mississippi)

Cleveland, Africanfuturism: African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds (Ohio University)

Cohen, I, Yantra: Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales (SUNY)

Condis and Sell, eds., Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames (Louisiana State)

Cueva, Horror in Classical Literature: “On a Profound and Elementary Principle” (Wales)

Davis, Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell (Rutgers)

Dobie, The Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation (Catholic)

Donahue, Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre (Mississippi)

Dor, StarCraft: Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy (Michigan)

Eghigian, After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon (Oxford)

Forlano and Glabau, Cyborg (MIT)

Garside, Gay Aliens and Queer Folk: How Russell T Davies Changed TV (Wales)

Goodwin, Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World (Minnesota)

Hamilton, George Pérez (Mississippi)

hoʻomanawanui, et al., eds., An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific (Hawai’i)

Howard, Space for Peace: Fragments of the Irish Troubles in the Science Fiction of Bob Shaw and James White (Liverpool)

Hunt, The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (Penn Press)

Jenkins, Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction (Ohio State)

Keetley, Folk Gothic (Cambridge)

Kortekallio, Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (Bloomsbury)

Lapoujade, Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick (Minnesota)

Li, Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai (Minnesota)

Ollett, The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Filmm (Wales)

Ravalli, ed., Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy (Kentucky)

Rowcraft, Kim Stanley Robinson: Apprenticeships in Narrative (Liverpool)

Shimabukuro and Clayton, eds., Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror Film and Television (Liverpool)

Smith, Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero (Mississippi)

Smith, The Indians Won (New Mexico) [Novel Re-Issue]

Steadman, Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales (Bloomsbury)

Tally, The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse (Bloomsbury)

Taylor, Who Is Big Brother? A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell (Yale)

Telotte, Science Fiction Theatre (Wayne State)

Townshend, Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture (Wales)

Wolcott, ed., Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present (SUNY)

Zaglewski, Neon Knight Forever: The Legacy of Joel Schumacher’s Batman Duology (Bloomsbury)