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Winner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

An Analysis of Activist Videos from Southern Mexico

Explores a Transatlantic News Economy That Circulated Information and Actively Shaped New Claims about the Red Planet

Winner of the 2018 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, implementing what Joy Knoblauch calls “psychological functionalism.” Recruited ...

Pop Culture-Infused Poetry about Climate Change, Gun Violence, and Police Brutality

Lyrical Poems that Interrogate Various Constructions of Ruin, Difficulty, and Reckoning

How Five Celebrity Scientists Used the Art of Public Speech to Advocate for Science as a Powerful Agent for Cultural Change

Combining biographical and institutional history, Thomas C. Lassman examines the professional career of theoretical physicist Edward Condon at Princeton University, Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse Electric Company and Manufacturing Company, and the National Bureau of Standards to illuminate contested visions of the usefulness of science that played out during The Great Depression, the Second World War, and the early Cold War.

Poems that Explore the Dissonance and Delights of Our Current Moment

Humorous Poetry with a Deep Core of Seriousness

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, ...

A Timely, Inclusive, and Intersectional Study on Antiracist Movements in Latin America

A New Approach to Transpacific Studies Linking the Literature and Thought of the Americas and the Philippines

The publication of Ted Kooser’s Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems is a literary event of major importance. Long admired and praised by other poets, Kooser is also accessible to the reader not familiar with contemporary poetry.