UC Press Blog

What exactly is the Mishnah? Author Ishay Rosen-Zvi scratches the surface of one of the most daring Jewish intellectual projects of antiquity.

The editor team of "Environmental Sociology Now" on the future of the discipline, the goal of this exciting new volume, and how to use it in classrooms and research agendas.

An exclusive look at Charlotte Brooks's THE MOYS OF NEW YORK AND SHANGHAI with an intro by the author.

Author Laura Horak on the power and possibility of trans-made cinema today.

With the release of Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" in theaters, author Surekha Davies celebrates the "monstrous feminine."

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino

For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.

Author Sérgio B. Martins explains what the trajectory of Antonio Diaz's life and artwork reveals about the history of avant-gardism.

Mark Anderson talks about his ecocritical analysis of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.

Author Namiko Kunimoto on how the work of transpacific contemporary artists exposes colonial trauma and the rise of aspirational fascism.