October 15, 2025
As I write, internet trolls and Fox News pundits are attacking the city where I was raised, the city where I raise my child. ICE agents are arresting our neighbors… READ MORE
October 1, 2025
Intimate Inequalities is a study of the everyday performance enacted by migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon, analysing a collection of soundwalks recorded and co-edited with workers themselves…. READ MORE
September 17, 2025
Everything We Could Do is not an autobiographical novel, but it is rooted to a very personal moment. Two days after my younger son was born, he had to be transported… READ MORE
September 3, 2025
Our Chicago summer was one for the books…literally! We were so pleased to bring such wonderful works into the world. June brought us into the stars with Samantha Edmonds’s A Preponderance… READ MORE
July 23, 2025
Published on July 15, David Zurick’s The Third Coast is a beautiful celebration of the Great Lakes and the Midwestern culture they make possible. Locals affectionately call the Great Lakes… READ MORE
July 9, 2025
I can’t even start writing a play until I have mapped its inner world. Sometimes the outer world, but mostly, what it feels like to be inside it. Sometimes I… READ MORE
June 25, 2025
With a June filled with first beach days and heat waves, we can’t recommend enough taking a peak at our sparkling new titles. We have starry stories in Samantha Edmonds’s… READ MORE
June 12, 2025
EVANSTON, IL— The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Northwestern University Press (NUP) are proud to announce that Annie Tucker is the winner of… READ MORE
June 11, 2025
Perhaps I read more than necessary for my new book out from Curbstone, Agrippina the Younger. I wasn’t a deep fan of Ancient Roman history—I didn’t have the broader context of… READ MORE
May 28, 2025
Before springing into the summer months, May has brought us a moment to slow down and enjoy everything that the final month of spring has to offer. This month, we… READ MORE
Never Done Learning: Justice, Life, and Chicago Theater by Maggie Andersen