Stanford University Press

12/11/2025

Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950–51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/political-undesirables

"Elegantly argued and absorbing, Political Undesirables underscores how citizenship practices can be deployed as forms of state and colonial governmentality. Zainab Saleh provides invaluable analysis and conceptual tools to grapple with our urgent times."
—Attiya Ahmad, The George Washington University

12/10/2025

Happy to spot Genre Bending by Jeremy Rosen in some very good company!

On this week’s Front Table, dive into a study of how today’s writers transform popular genres, step into an autumn day that never ends, and explore a visual history of music that spans from ancient instruments to modern art. Discover 50 fresh voices defining contemporary poetry, rethink upheavals through an expansive history of revolutions, and glimpse the early brilliance of a legendary songwriter’s fiction. Finally, uncover a sharp examination of “smart authoritarianism” and how it shapes global power.
Stanford University Press
September Publishing
Verso Books
Grove Atlantic
Cornell University Press
New Directions

12/10/2025

Examining what today's most critically acclaimed and widely read literary writers have done with the genres of genre fiction, Genre Bending reveals the values, practices, and forms, as well as the tensions, that constitute literary fiction today. https://ow.ly/1bni50XG46h

Rosen reads across the outpouring of fiction of the last several decades by writers like Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Kazuo Ishiguro, Chang-rae Lee, David Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, and Colson Whitehead. He finds that literary writers' embrace of popular genres is the product of several seemingly contradictory forces, including their attempt to extend a modernist-inspired project of formal experiment, to pursue high cultural prestige, and to preserve the distinctiveness of the literary, which they perceive to be under threat, while also embracing the role of providing pleasure to readers.

12/09/2025

Worthy of Justice is out now! https://www.sup.org/books/law/worthy-justice

"Worthy of Justice provides an in-depth, well-executed look at Veteran Treatment Courts (VTCs) to understand both the policy frameworks that drive them and how they work out on the ground. Rowen fills an important gap in the literature by considering a court that is in some ways defined by the general belief that its participants are worthy and deserving. A highly interesting and important book."
—Julie Novkov, University at Albany, SUNY

12/08/2025

We are in the final stretch of our sale! Don't miss the chance to get 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* before it shuts down at 11:59 PM tonight (12/8).

We're having a cyber week sale! Need to reboot your winter reading? This byte-sized cyber sale can help. Take advantage of 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* starting today, 12/1, through Monday, 12/8. For details: https://www.sup.org/about-our-cyber-week-sale

12/04/2025

We're having a cyber week sale! Need to reboot your winter reading? This byte-sized cyber sale can help. Take advantage of 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* starting today, 12/1, through Monday, 12/8. For details: https://www.sup.org/about-our-cyber-week-sale

12/04/2025

Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system—including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi—forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the planet, stretching across eastern South Asia, mainland Southeast Asia, and southern China. The Range of the River uncovers the entwined histories of these vast waterways and the empires, human actors, and other-than-human forces that have shaped Asia since the 1850s. https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/range-river

"This is a work of considerable conceptual originality based on a great deal of rich empirical research, and it will be lauded for opening up new ways of doing transnational histories. The geographical argument that sees communities link across the upland rivers in this macro-region is quite innovative in the realm of Asian studies. As such, the book is a powerful, important achievement."
—Prasenjit Duara, Duke University

12/03/2025

Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with city residents, demolition workers, and public officials, as well as analyses of administrative archives, Demolishing Detroit examines the causes, procedures, and consequences of empty-building demolitions in Detroit. https://ow.ly/M3x150XAj8o

"Nick Caverly has written a book for these mean times. Demolishing Detroit provides a history of the theory and practice of development by destruction. But, even more than that, it suggests and substantiates a notion of the ways that racism has been built so insistently into the material fabric of our everyday lives that it frames and determines the results of even the best-intentioned efforts of address it."
—Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

12/02/2025

Enduring Hostility by Dalia Dassa Kaye is a timely and rigorous analysis of a half-century of American policymakers' shifting perceptions of Iran, and how they have driven US-Iran relations. https://ow.ly/3jC050XAhBF

"In this incisive and timely book, Dalia Dassa Kaye tells the story of over four decades of America's effort to contend with Iran's regional role and nuclear ambitions. A much-needed resource on an urgent topic and a must-read for policymakers and academics."
—Vali Nasr, author of Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History