"One of the earliest and greatest cultural critics, Leslie Fiedler never wrote an autobiography, but these fascinating reminiscences reveal much about his life and work." — Jeffrey Berman, University at Albany, SUNY
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Cover of Italian Americana: Cultural and Historical Review, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2 Summer 2020 Title text on a white rectangle overlaid onto two black and white photographs: one of a brick building and one of a group of people. Below the title, a green bar with issue information and to the left, a red border.
ICYMI, check out Perri Giovannucci's review of "The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing" by Andrea Ciribuco (@sunypress.bsky.social) from Italian Americana XXXVIII (2). scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
This week's #StaffPick is from Kate Seburyamo, Senior Marketing Manager.
"Teaching Poetry Now is like a mixtape featuring artists who have their own style, genre, and rhythm but who all participate as equals." — Crystal Leigh Endsley
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What can #baseball teach us about #democracy?
In DEMOCRACY AT THE BALLPARK, Thomas Bunting shows how fans’ experiences—community, equality, shared meaning—shape political life & how we understand ourselves & our democracy.
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The Ritz with a Shvitz is a compelling story of dreams and reality, greed and betrayal, corruption and reform and is a microcosm of that era of Tammany's oppressive control of New York City government. Preorder now at tinyurl.com/yp5pb2sd
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For Arab American Heritage Month we're highlighting books on Arab thinkers, politics, and culture. Browse the book collection and save 30% with code SAAHP26 through the end of the month: tinyurl.com/3nuc8xyh
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Calm, cool, careful visions of the Pacific Northwest: Vancouver poet Mary Barnard celebrated - tinyurl.com/weapatzh
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The Brooklyn Rail reviews Zlochov, My Home: Poems by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern: tinyurl.com/3wwzz6mv
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#WPSA2026 Explore how music shapes politics, identity, and resistance.
From “The Star-Spangled Banner” to BLM & Standing Rock, ANTHEMS shows how songs challenge power and redefine democracy.
Nancy Love rethinks sovereignty, justice, and belonging in the U.S.
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This month's 60 for 60 list is one of our favorites to share: 60 Staff Favorites, chosen by the people who helped shepherd these books into the world—some of whom have been at SUNY Press for 30 and 40 years. Each title comes with a story. tinyurl.com/yca6ewtb
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New review of #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork "giving readers a sense of how contemporary New Yorkers viewed the urban world around them." artsfuse.org/326490/april...
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We are saddened to share the news of the passing of Meredith Caprice Trexler Drees, coeditor of Politeia: New Readings in the History of Philosophy with Anne J. Mamary. She will be deeply missed by colleagues and readers around the world. Our thoughts are with her family.
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We’re thrilled to celebrate our eleven incredible finalists for the 2025 #FOREWORDINDIES Book of the Year Awards!
Congrats to all of our authors & editors whose work continues to inspire, inform, & challenge readers everywhere.
Stay tuned, winners will be announced in June!
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In Zen Time, Raji C. Steineck provides a robust contextualization of Dōgen's Uji, the most renowned text on time in Zen Buddhism.
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This week's #StaffPick is from Jenn Bennett. When I Am Italian offers wonderful storytelling by author Joanna Claps Herman about the Italian American experience, raising the central question of this book: To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian?
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What if gaslighting didn’t start in modern psychology, but in the Victorian Empire?
VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING traces how power, “madness,” and false narratives were used to control women and colonized subjects, and why it still matters.
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#SCMS26 discover a bold look at how cinema reveals, and resists, power over life itself.
From Farhadi to Loznitsa, Wang, and Jude, THE BIOPOLITICAL TURN IN WORLD CINEMA traces biopolitics across global film.
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THE WHITE INDIANS OF MEXICAN CINEMA uncovers how Golden Age Mexican films (1930s–1950s) crafted a striking racial paradox: Whiteness performed as Indigeneity.
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New in paperback in May, CELLULOID BABEL is a transnational intellectual history of cinema’s early dream: a universal language that could speak to everyone, everywhere.
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"…[an] erudite, ambitious work. One leaves this book with a feeling that he has received an education—not just about Strauss's career but also about some of the most important intellectual junctions of the twentieth century." — JOURNAL OF RELIGION
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As part of our #60thAnniversary celebrations, we’re revisiting a thought-provoking #OneToOne #AuthorQ&A first published in 2015.
Marti Lybeck, author of DESIRING EMANCIPATION, explores the shifting meanings of gender, sexuality, & identity in pre-Nazi Germany & beyond.
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#ASEH2026 may be ending, but our conference discounts continue through April 28, 2026!
From climate change to environmental justice, explore our latest and recent books in environmental studies, and save 30% with code SASEH26.
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#SCMS26 What if cinema could rethink who shapes the city?
SEEING SYMPHONICALLY by Erica Stein shows how avant-garde films (1939–64) reimagined NYC, challenging urban planning through experimental form.
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REMNANTS OF REFUSAL explores how French & Chinese films & literary works respond to erased historical trauma through feminist affect, tracing melancholy, ambivalence, & exhaustion as powerful modes of refusal.
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Great to see Hannah Holtzman at SCMS! Her book is Through a Nuclear Lens: France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima. tinyurl.com/yje6nk8u
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Seen at SCMS in Chicago: Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf with her new book Remnants of Refusal! Preorder the paperback at tinyurl.com/55ehp5yz.
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Luca Barattoni stopped by the booth at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies meeting in Chicago! Here he is with his new book, The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema, which you can read more about at tinyurl.com/r27vywf8!
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BEYOND EMANCIPATION rethinks freedom before the Civil War, highlighting enslaved people who escaped yet remained in the South. Through writers like Douglass, Jacobs, & Delany, it shows how “small acts” reshape ideas of freedom.
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Headed to #SCMS26 in Chicago?
Stop by the SUNY Press booth and explore our new releases in cinema and media studies.
Not attending? Browse our virtual booth and still save 30% with code SCMS26 through April 29, 2026.
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