To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic, edited by Rachel B. Herrmann, has won the 2020 book award for an edited...
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NOW AVAILABLE: Artivate Volume 9, Number 1
Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts issue 9.1 (Spring 2020) is now available. The newest issue of Artivate opens with observations...
NOW AVAILABLE! A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine, 1799–1989
"In the early days of the republic," Bill J. Gurley writes in the foreword to A Family Practice, "health care was certainly not viewed as a right...
Zaina Alsous named winner of the 2020 Norma Farber Award
Zaina Alsous has won the 2020 Norma Farber Award for her collection A Theory of Birds. The Norma Farber Book Award honors a first book of original...
The Best of the University Presses: 100 Books to Escape the News (LitHub)
The University Press community has compiled a list of books to help readers escape the news, and the titles have been collected at LitHub, which...
P. Scott Cunningham teaches you how to write a zip ode
The zip ode is an original form invented by O, Miami and WLRN designed to transform ZIP codes into occasions for lyrical neighborhood celebration....
NEW IN PAPER: Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow
In the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates, Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley in a...
NOW AVAILABLE: Blood in Their Eyes
“This expanded edition of Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919 is a valuable resource for coming to grips with one of the most...
172 Books: A Look at Moroccan Literature Available in English from ArabLit Quarterly
ArabLit Editor Nadia Ghanem surveys the twentieth- and twenty-first century Moroccan literature available in English at ArabLit Quarterly, including...
Free print book when you buy the ebook!
Select ebooks are now available for direct purchase from www.uapress.com, at 25% off list price. For a limited time we are also offering a free...
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The University of Arkansas Press continues to operate as staff work from home. Please review our staff listing and feel free to get in touch via...
University of Arkansas Press shipping update
Due to the impact of COVID-19, the governor of Illinois has issued a stay-at-home order for the entire state, beginning Saturday, March 21, 2020....
The Press Remains Open
Life in our community, much as it is around the world, feels like a dramatically altered state, and we understand how unsettling the...
Patricia Smith Named Editor of Miller Williams Poetry Series
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Acclaimed poet Patricia Smith has been named series editor for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and will select the winner and...
Jose Padua Named 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Winner
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Jose Padua has won the 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize for his collection A Short History of Monsters. A finalist was also...
Journal of Sport History reviews Sport, Culture, and Society titles
“DC Sports would be a useful addition to undergraduate courses in sports history, sociology, and African American studies.” —Journal of Sport...
The First Twenty-Five featured in Arkansas Life
On May 23, 1961,” Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver writes in the opening lines of her new book, “the Little Rock School Board designated twenty-five...
LaVerne Bell-Tolliver interviewed on KUAR
A new book, "The First Twenty-Five: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock's Public Junior High Schools," shares the experiences of...
Journal of Social History reviews Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood
“Anderson has written an intelligent study of one of the more popular cultural heroes of the Progressive period. For countless readers, Frank...
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NPM17: “Feed” by Laura McCullough
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, the University of Arkansas Press will present poetry every day for the month. Today, we present...