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A Tribute to Jerome Rothenberg
May 01 2024
Jerome Rothenberg at UC Press in 2017, seated beside his collections: “Technicians of the Sacred” and “Symposium of the Whole.”Jerome Rothenberg, who passed away on April 21, was a giant in the poetry community and a longtime author, anthologist, and translator for University of California Press
Futures of Literary Criticism
Jan 04 2024
Christopher Newfield’s 2023 MLA Presidential address, "Criticism After This Crisis: Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study," was published in Representations 164 (Fall 2023). As the 2024 MLA conference commences, we thought it an opportune time to revisit Newfield's 2023 address,
Q&A with Laura Jansen, Guest Editor of Classical Antiquity’s Special Issue “Anne Carson’s Euripides”
Jan 04 2024
Following her experimental translations of Euripides in Grief Lessons (2006), Anne Carson’s recent dialogue with Euripides is amongst her boldest. The Trojan Women (2021), a graphic ‘comics poem’, and H of H Playbook (2021), an ‘explosion of thought’ in the shape of a playbook with illustrations and
Q&A with C. Luke Soucy, Translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Dec 11 2023
Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In this boldly lyrical translation, C. Luke Soucy revives the magnum opus of Rome’s most clever and creative poet, faithfully matching the epic’s wit and style while confronting the sexuality, violence, and
A Look Inside Novel Palestine
Nov 01 2023
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah examines these imaginative structures so that we might move bey
Explore Literary Studies and Interdisciplinary Journals at #MLA24
Oct 23 2023
Explore Literary Studies and Interdisciplinary Journals at #MLA24
A Look Inside Sea Change, a Stunning New Atlas for Our Times
Apr 22 2023
"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit
Q&A with Marsha Gordon, author of Becoming the Ex-Wife
Apr 05 2023
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best sellers, Hollywood film deals, marriages and divorces, and run-ins with the law made
Q&A with Tony K. Stewart, Translator of Needle at the Bottom of the Sea
Mar 14 2023
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 the challenges of living in the Sundarban swamps of Bengal, but also to ease hostilities born of social
Spotlight on Nathan Osorio, Humanities Institute Public Fellow at UC Press
Mar 06 2023
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Nathan Osorio received a 2022-2023 Humanities Institute Public Fellowship to work with UC Press for the duration of the school year. He is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Chapbook Fellowship for his collection, The Last Town Before the Mojave. His