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What do Walt Whitman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Langston Hughes, and Bruce Springsteen all have in common? Each was captivated...
09/09/2026

What do Walt Whitman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Langston Hughes, and Bruce Springsteen all have in common? Each was captivated by Atlantic City.

As Atlantic City grew to become one of the largest tourist destinations on the East Coast, it loomed ever larger in the imaginations of American writers. Generation after generation of novelists, journalists, musicians, and poets walked the Boardwalk.

This collection traces the city’s history from its beginnings as a quiet health resort to its rapid ascent as "the world’s playground," its gradual decline, and its hopeful future. Through fiction, poetry, drama, memoirs, and journalism, it takes us inside the glitz and glamor, while holding a lens to the city’s complex history of political corruption, racial discrimination, and urban decay.

We remember Gloria Steinem—feminist writer, activist, media spokeswoman, and lecturer.The Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair i...
09/04/2026

We remember Gloria Steinem—feminist writer, activist, media spokeswoman, and lecturer.

The Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies is an innovative collaboration among the Rutgers Institute for Women's Leadership, School of Communication and Information, and the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the School of Arts and Sciences.

Read a brief history of Steinem’s rise to prominence—from humble beginnings and in spite of a male dominated society.

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/media/wysiwyg/sample-pages/steinem_excerpt.pdf

Excerpted from "Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Social Movements" (edited by Mary K. Trigg and Alison R. Bernstein)

08/28/2026

For the first time ever, Roger Farrington’s complete photo series from John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1980 studio comeback is collected in one stunning volume. Starting Over is a must-have for Beatles fans, collectors, and photography lovers. Releasing September 8.

Grab your pre-order copy below!

https://go.rutgers.edu/i47zrmz0

"Elizabeth Detention Center: A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States" Edited by Ul...
08/27/2026

"Elizabeth Detention Center: A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States" Edited by Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/elizabeth-detention-center/9781978845848

Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been detained at the privately-run Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey, under inhumane conditions. This volume unites the perspectives of formerly detained migrants, scholars, journalists, lawyers, and advocates who situate local struggles within the wider landscape of immigration detention in the US.

"Interiority in German Women's Writing" Edited by Beate Allert and Amy Emmhttps://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delawar...
08/26/2026

"Interiority in German Women's Writing" Edited by Beate Allert and Amy Emm

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/interiority-in-german-women-s-writing/9781644534267

"Interiority in German Women’s Writing" reclaims interiority ("Innerlichkeit") as a feminine discourse with literary and philosophical origins in the Age of Sensibility ("Empfindsamkeit"). The volume gathers case studies and literary analyses through which interiority emerges as a spectrum of approaches to defining, resisting, and transforming the innermost self.

Published by University of Delaware Press.

"Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany" by Christopher Hutchinsonhttps://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delawar...
08/25/2026

"Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany" by Christopher Hutchinson

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/medical-misinformation-in-early-modern-germany/9781644534298

"Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany" explores how sixteenth-century German doctors and writers responded to print’s rapid expansion and its impact on medical knowledge. Examining literary texts and vernacular pamphlets on plague, syphilis, and the English sweating sickness, it investigates how writers reflected on questions of audience, vernacularity, and medical authority in their own responses to disease and reveals a widespread anxiety about print’s reliability and its effects on public health.

Published by University of Delaware Press.

Welcome back to Rutgers Summer Reads! ☀️ 📚 Throughout the summer, we’ll be posting book recommendations from our list f...
08/24/2026

Welcome back to Rutgers Summer Reads! ☀️ 📚 Throughout the summer, we’ll be posting book recommendations from our list from staff members at the Press. Next up is Nicole Solano, our Editorial Director and Associate Press Director, who recomends "In Hush to Harbor" by La-Toya L. Scott. Nicole says, "In Hush to Harbor is a project I loved working on, both because of the focus of the work and because of the author. Dr. Scott is a pretty amazing person in addition to being an impressive scholar and I’m thrilled to have worked with her. The book traces how Black communities have carved out safe spaces from slavery to today's digital world and I always love a project that directly connects our history to the present circumstances we find ourselves in." You can find this and other great books on our website!

"Starting Over with John & Yoko" traces the dramatic story of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s triumphant return to the record...
08/24/2026

"Starting Over with John & Yoko" traces the dramatic story of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s triumphant return to the recording studio after a self-imposed five-year absence. For photographer Roger Farrington, the opportunity to get “the shot” was the assignment of a lifetime.

Preorder now.

https://go.rutgers.edu/qhmy8p6b

"The Savage Library of Roberto Bolaño: Radical Readings" by Benjamin Loyhttps://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/...
08/24/2026

"The Savage Library of Roberto Bolaño: Radical Readings" by Benjamin Loy

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/the-savage-library-of-roberto-bolano/9781684485949

This book offers the first comprehensive study of intertextuality in Roberto Bolaño’s work, tracing references from baroque to postmodern literature. Combining close readings with the history of ideas, it reveals how Bolaño engages with writers like Pascal, Sor Juana, Baudelaire, and Perec, offering fresh insights into his complex literary universe.

Published by Bucknell University Press.

"American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century" by David FreelandHow the Waldorf-Astoria hotel became ...
08/21/2026

"American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century" by David Freeland

How the Waldorf-Astoria hotel became an internationally recognized symbol of elegance and luxury while playing an essential role in New York’s rise as a world capital.

Buy your copy now!
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/addtobasket?sku=9780813594392

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