University of Chicago Press

09/25/2026

Congratulations to Alison Pouliot whose magical new book, FUNGA OBSCURA, has been highly commended by the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Illustrative Books! Please join us in celebrating both Pouliot's work and the wonder of all things fungi 🍄

09/24/2026

"While many have pontificated on this, Stelzner brings new depth to the topic, highlighting how advertising, competitive social comparison and corporate incentives to stimulate human desires are all embedded features of the contemporary economy." Read The Financial Times review of Mark Joseph Stelzner's GROWTH MACHINES today!
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09/24/2026

Join danah boyd and Jonathan Zittrain for a discussion of boyd's new book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, at the Harvard Book Store!
🗓️ Thursday, October 1st
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09/23/2026

Join danah boyd and Albert E. Fontenot Jr. at on Friday, September 25 to discuss Data Are Made, Not Found, a story of the people who made the US census and the growing threats to their work. See you at 7pm at The Wharf!
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📍 Politics and Prose at The Wharf
610 Water St SW
Washington DC, DC 20024

09/22/2026

Joseph Turow discusses THE PROBLEM WITH PERSONALIZATION with Disruptor Confessions. https://buff.ly/i8N3nmC

"Most people have no clue about the kinds of data that companies ar...

09/22/2026

Before literary fiction and genre fiction split into separate lanes, 19th-century writers moved freely between ghost stories, mysteries, and character studies. Michael Gorra, author of *The Storytellers*, on how that unified world of the short tale came apart—and what we lost: https://buff.ly/i7uf97f

09/18/2026

"Michael Gorra has long been one of the finest literary critics in America. His new book surveys a landscape both familiar and strange...the development of the short story." Read Gorra's interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education about this new book THE STORYTELLERS:

Michael Gorra on “public writing,“ short fiction, and academic activism.

09/18/2026

App-controlled labor is less a technological novelty than yet another chapter in a much longer history of employer legal circumvention. Read the piece in Dissent discussing Brian Callaci's THE CHAINS OF COMMAND and how franchising gave rise to the gig-economy.
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App-controlled labor is less a technological novelty than yet another chapter in a much longer history of employer legal circumvention.

09/17/2026

Why do poor, often sick, rural citizens vote for Republicans even after they slash funding for Medicaid and close rural hospitals? Michael Shepherd, RURAL PAIN, REPUBLICAN GAIN, describes how conservative politicians and media have successfully built support for those cuts. Listen today from KPFA!
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Why do poor, often sick, rural people vote for Republicans even after they slash funding for Medicaid and close rural hospitals? Michael Shepherd describes how conservative politicians and media have successfully built support for those cuts by claiming programs like Medicaid only help city dwellers...