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"I hope 'One Battle After Another' wins a million awards": A Q&A with Peter Coviello
Feb 26 2026
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.
Erosive Forms and a Climate of Violence in the Work of Juan Rulfo: A Q&A with Mark Anderson
Feb 11 2026
Mark Anderson talks about his ecocritical analysis of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.
Carlyle’s "Past and Present" and Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol"
Dec 15 2025
The overlooked influence of Carlyle's "Past and Present" on Charles Dickens' famous "A Christmas Carol."
Help Us Grow Our FirstGen Program!
Apr 22 2025
UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.
50 Years Since the Vietnam War: The Cleaving
Apr 12 2025
Excerpts from "The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora"
Bringing Visibility to Vietnamese American Writers
Mar 12 2025
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, co-editor of "The Cleaving," on the invisibility of Vietnamese American writers and poets and bringing light to their work.
Q&A with Andrew Campana, author of "Expanding Verse"
Mar 11 2025
Author Andrew Campana discusses his book "Expanding Verses: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media"
UC Press Becomes Publisher of Science Fiction Studies, which Releases New Special Issue on "Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction as Slipstream"
Mar 06 2025
The guest editor of UC Press's new journal answers the question, "Why have a journal special issue on Southeast Asian speculative fiction?"
The Enduring Relevance—and Inspiring Optimism—of Thomas Carlyle’s Writings
Feb 19 2025
It has been surprisingly easy for Victorian scholars to overlook Thomas Carlyle in recent years as an unfashionable “Victorian sage.” But in his time, in George Eliot’s description, Carlyle was like an oak leaving fertile acorns of ideas that would grow and spread with good influence.
Ten Intriguing Facts about Fearless Writer Sanora Babb
Oct 17 2024
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb," shares 10 intriguing facts about intrepid writer Sanora Babb — peerless author of midcentury American literature who was silenced by John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."