T he best book editors publish according to their own taste. While the projects they acquire need to fit in with the overall list of the press, seasoned editors…

’Tis the season … No, it isn’t time to get ready for this year’s winter holidays. It’s time to write and submit those scholarly articles, book chapters and…

On Saturday, attendees at the meeting of the Southern Association for Women Historians tweeted about statements participants made there. Support for the…

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Last week University College London Press, Britain’s first fully open-access university press, celebrated a milestone -- one million downloads of its free…

It’s worked for hotels, restaurants, rock bands and the Urban Canine Doggy Day Spa (“Chicago’s hippest dog walking and dog grooming salon”), but only now has…

Image: iStock As a former book editor in a previous life, I already know "what editors do." But I learned a lot more from a new collection of essays by 27 of…

Special Report AddThis Sharing Buttons June 01, 2017 The Future of the University Press W e asked publishers, press directors, editors, scholars, and other…

Dave Plunkert for The Chronicle Review T his month, Kentucky’s General Assembly overrode Gov. Matt Bevin’s veto of the budget, restoring many of the cuts in…

There is no more humbling experience in my life as a writer than reviewing the copyeditor’s work on a book manuscript. I almost said “humiliating” instead of…

I was rather scared to find my next book announced on Amazon as if it already existed, when parts of it hadn’t even been written yet. It made me realize that…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The University of Minnesota Press with CUNY’s GC Digital Scholarship Lab and Cast Iron Coding announce the release of MANIFOLD 1.0.…

The publisher Charlesbridge recently postponed publication of one of their picture books in response to sexual harassment accusations against its illustrator.…

The National Book Awards, among the most prestigious literary prizes, are going global. Starting this year, the National Book Foundation will recognize works in…

Reading serious literature isn't the norm among American adults these days. But nonprofit Books@Work hopes to encourage adults to continue to read and learn…

O ne of the joys of academic life is contributing to the canon of a field and knowing that other people will read your words and, perhaps, change their…

Don Norman is a legend in UX design. Since the 1960s, he’s been on the forefront of human-computer interaction and was a pioneer in user-centered design (or…

(Illustration: MVM) "What queer disease is this," wrote the late-19th-century psychologist William James, "of holding things and staring at them like that for…

All Images: CBS “Threshold” is one of the most infamous Star Trek episodes ever. You know what’ we’re talking about—the one with Warp 10 and the weird evolved…

T he Modern Language Association’s annual convention is not so much a conference as a traveling city. For four days each year, more than 5,000 members of one of…