The Journal of Southern History has reviewed New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy, edited by Thomas Aiello: “New Orleans Sports: Playing...
Review
“The Chemistry of Fire is a whirlwind of observation, knowledge, and expression.”
"The topics of the essays collected here range from mountain climbing to deep-sea exploration, outer space, and the loss of loved ones, and each...
Summer Farah reviews Strip by Jessica Abughattas at Anomaly
“As a Palestinian writer, sometimes I am afraid no one will care what I have to say outside of my marginalization — every poem must be about the...
Kirkus Reviews says the essays in The Chemistry of Fire “explore what it means to be human.”
“Reflective essays explore what it means to be human. Whether he’s swimming in an underwater cave or touring a NASA center in Huntsville, Alabama,...
A Theory of Birds Reviewed in The Adroit Journal
Maha Ahmed has reviewed A Theory of Birds: Poems by Zaina Alsous in The Adroit Journal. A Theory of Birds, Ahmed writes, is "a poetry collection...
Yesterday Today Reviewed in Missouri Historical Review
Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks, Catherine S. Barker’s 1941 book drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the...
Starred Review in Publishers Weekly for The Chemistry of Fire
“Gonzales, a former National Geographic feature writer, proves himself a chronicler par excellence of nature—including of the human variety—in this...
Fugitivism Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History
"Fugitivism," Shaun Wallace writes in the May 2020 issue of The Journal of Southern History, "enriches scholarly knowledge and understanding of...
The Taste of Art reviewed in Food and Foodways
Dr. Natalie Jovanovski has reviewed The Taste of Art: Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices, edited by Silvia Bottinelli and...
Fugitivism reviewed in Environmental History
Kathryn Olivarius, of Stanford University, has reviewed S. Charles Bolton's Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860...
Two reviews for Defending the American Way of Life
“The machinations of the role of sport throughout America’s Cold War battles is both familiar and unexplored territory, something that this...
Jose Padua interviewed at Rain Taxi
“A Short History of Monsters explodes like a cluster bomb of hilarious, acerbic, menacing, satirical, clear-eyed, and self-effacing poetry that...
Inventing Authenticity reviewed in The Journal of Southern History
“Unfurls a series of fresh insights…. this book uses a niche text—the recipe headnote—to weigh in on a debate that is not going anywhere...
Booklist reviews A Short History of Monsters
“Padua is a very wry poet who, in his first book, presents stinging and riotous poems, as in the two-stanza ‘Barbie’: ‘I am Barbie / I live...
Two reviews in the Journal of Southern History
“While this edited volume will appeal to devotees of Arkansas history, it would be a mistake to assume that its value is only to that...
Two Food and Foodways Series Titles named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
“This edited volume breaks new ground in exploring decolonial movements connecting food to territory, subsistence, labor, local knowledge, memory,...
Booklist Reviews Teeth Never Sleep and Protect Yourself at All Times
“Toxic masculinity” has become a hot topic in debates over gender and culture, yet one might not think to turn to contemporary poetry as...
The Sculpture of Robyn Horn excerpted at Arkansas Life
Read an excerpt from "Defiance of Gravity" by Henry Adams, an essay in The Sculpture of Robyn Horn at Arkansas Life magazine.
Choice reviews three UA Press titles
“This edited volume breaks new ground in exploring decolonial movements connecting food to territory, subsistence, labor, local knowledge, memory,...
Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Paraíso
The Costa Rican–American poet Jacob Shores-Argüello is another fabular shape-shifter, whose forays into cross-cultural spaces, fluid identities, and...
Choice calls Making March Madness “an engaging read.”
“Based on archival material as well as a wealth of other primary and secondary sources, Making March Madness provides an in-depth account of a...