We’re excited to announce that our Spring Sale starts today. Save 50% on all in-stock and pre-order books and journal issues with coupon code MAY50 through May 24. Our distributor in the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Pacific, Combined Academic Publishers, is pleased to extend the same 50% off discount to our customers there. Since overseas shipping can be slow and expensive, we highly encourage everyone in their territory to order directly from them using the same MAY50 coupon code. Customers in Canada may order directly from the University of Toronto Press ..read more

We are excited  to unveil our Fall 2024 catalog, which is full of fantastic new books and journal issues that will be published between July 2024 and January 2025. Many of these titles are available for preorder on our website now. Here are just a few highlights. The cover image is from Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation by Fred R. Myers and Terry Smith. It is entitled The Trial and is by Charlie Tjaruru (Tarawa) Tjungurrayi. In the book anthropologist Myers and art critic Smith discuss six paintings by Indigenous Australian artists featured in a 2022 exhibition in New York ..read more

The Weekly Read for May 11, 2024, is “A Tranifesto for the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory,” a roundtable with Erique Zhang, Julian Kevon Glover, Ava L. J. Kim, Tamsin Kimoto, Nathan Alexander Moore, æryka jourdaine hollis o’neil, and LaVele Ridley. The article appears in “The Shape of Trans Yet to Come,” a recent special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (10:3-4), edited by Abraham B. Weil, Francisco J. Galarte, and Jules Gill-Peterson. Read this article for free through June 30, 2024. Buy this special issue and use coupon code SAVE30 for a ..read more

The Weekly Read is At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz by Darren Mueller. The book examines how musicians used the jazz industry’s adoption of the long-playing record to redefine the uneven power relations of the heavily segregated music business. Kevin Fellezs writes, “A profound reconception of jazz historiography, At the Vanguard of Vinyl forces us to confront our deepest-held notions about jazz through close attention to the musicians and record-industry personnel who shaped the ways in which we hear and appreciate the music.” Darren M ..read more

It’s the end of the semester! Celebrate the start of summer with some of the great new titles we have coming out in May. For twenty years, Terry Bisson published a regular “This Month in History” column in the science fiction magazine Locus. Tomorrowing collects these two decades of memorable events—four per month—each set in a totally different imaginary yet possible, inevitable yet avoidable future. A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History by Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow is a guide for college and high school educators who are teaching Indian Ocean histor ..read more

Happy International Jazz Day! To celebrate, we are highlighting a few of our new and recent titles on all things jazz. In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s. Mueller demonstrates that the LP emerges as a medium of sound and culture that maps onto the more expansive sonic terrain of Black modernity in the 1950s. In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritize ..read more

Catch our authors at in-person and online events in May. May 1, 5 pm BST: Anne Allison, author of Being Dead Otherwise, gives an in-person talk  at Cambridge University. Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge May 2, 7 pm EDT: Moon Charania, author of Archive of Tongues, appears in person at Lost City Books. 2467 18th Street Northwest, Washington, DC May 2, 12 pm PDT: UC Berkeley’s Social Science Matrix hosts an in-person Author Meets the Critics event for Juana María Rodríguez, author of Puta Life. Social Sciences Building, 8th Floor, Berkeley, California May ..read more

The Weekly Read for April 27, 2024, is “Transnational Queer Materialism” by Rana M. Jaleel and Evren Savci. The article is the introduction to a recent special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly edited by the authors. Read this article for free through June 30, 2024. Buy this special issue and use coupon code SAVE30 for a 30% discount. The introduction to this special issue takes up the narrations and values produced by the travels of words like queer of color, race, and racial capitalism to both comobilize and retheorize queer of color critiqu ..read more

Congratulations to our designers who were recognized for excellence in the 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket and Journal Show! The annual show, now in its 59th year, honors the university publishing community’s design and production professionals; recognizes achievement in design, production, and manufacture of print publications; and serves as a spark to conversations and source of ideas about intelligent, creative, and resourceful publishing. A. Mattson Gallagher was honored in the Scholarly Illustrated category for his design of A View from Venice, edited by Kristin Love Huffman. In the Ja ..read more

We look forward to meeting authors, editors, and friends of the Press in person at the 2024 AAAS conference! Courtney Berger is joining you in Seattle, and you can find us in the exhibit hall. Browse books and journals in Asian American studies on our conference landing page. Or, check out our complete list in the field. Use coupon code AAAS24 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through June 7, 2024. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Combined Academic Publishers. Don’t miss the editors ..read more