The Bengali stories in this collection are first and foremost tales of survival. Each story in Needle at the Bottom of the Sea underscores the need for people to work together—not just to overcome …
Read More >By Christen T. Sasaki, author of Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i Typically, the history of U.S. empire is told as a story of inevitable expansion. Within this narrative, …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the …
Read More >March 8, 1950—International Women’s Day—Marked the Embrace of a Feminist Battle Against Imperialism This post was originally published on Zócalo Public Square and is reposted here with permission. By Elisabeth B. Armstrong, author …
Read More >By Nicole Constable, author of Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations Since the 1990s, I have done field research in Hong Kong among Filipino and Indonesian migrant workers and activists, most …
Read More >This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan’s medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is situated in …
Read More >A stunning collection of classics from around the world, read around the world. The World Literature in Translation program aims to represent a truly inclusive and expansive view of literature from around …
Read More >UC Press is sharing a selection of haiku in celebration of the Winter Solstice and the publication of Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō, which offers 980 poems in English. Andrew Fitzsimons’ translation …
Read More >The Thomas Robbins Awards for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements was established in 2002 by the late Thomas Robbins to recognize outstanding articles published in Nova Religio.
Read More >Earlier this year, Vietnamese literary circles were shocked by allegations of sexual assault and harassment against the poet Lương Ngọc An, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Báo Văn Nghệ.
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