BEYOND HEALING

An Interview with L. Ayu Saraswati, author of Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain 1. In Scarred, you describe your journey traveling to twenty countries in just over a year…. READ MORE

Banner that reads "To Have Equal Pay, We Need Equal Parental Leave. An Excerpt from Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month Solution by Gayle Kaufman." In the background, a team of people stack their hands together. An image of the book cover, featuring traffic lights with baby bottles on them in front of a light blue background.

To Have Equal Pay, We Need Equal Parental Leave

An Excerpt From Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month Solution by Gayle Kaufman Parental leave may result in lower wages. There is plenty of evidence that mothers experience a wage… READ MORE

5 Books to Read During Ramadan

Join us as we celebrate Ramadan by exploring the diverse experiences of Muslim life. These titles offer a variety of perspectives, exploring Islam and its subcultures through lenses of gender,… READ MORE

The book 'I Write the Yawning Void' lays on top of a gold-tinted picture of Cape Town, South Africa.

I Write the Yawning Void: An Internationally Acclaimed Author Speaks on Writing and Representation

Excerpted from I Write the Yawning Void: Selected Essays of Sindiwe Magona by Sindiwe Magona, published by Wits University Press I can’t believe I have been writing for more than… READ MORE

Inside the Police Academy: An Interview with Samantha J. Simon

Inside the Police Academy

An Interview with Samantha J. Simon, author of Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence You spent a year researching this book at four large, municipal police departments… READ MORE

Live Better in New Jersey

May 7, 2010

That’s the news from the American Human Development Project as reported by the Wall Street Journal. NYU Press will be publishing the 2010-2011 version of AHDP’s report, Measure of America,… READ MORE

Library Journal Stars Holocaust Ghettos

May 5, 2010

Library Journal gave a starred review for the The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust, 2 Volume set This comprehensive encyclopedia—researched and compiled under the auspices of… READ MORE

A New Map of Adolescence

May 4, 2010

The Penn Gazette has a feature article focusing on the pathbreaking research on adolescence by Vivian Setzer, author of Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents…. READ MORE

Favorite Poem: David Freeland

April 23, 2010

My grandmother, Jean Gosse, wrote poems that reflected daily life and concerns in mid-20th century Newfoundland. At the time “The Little Boy who didn’t pass” was written (the early 1950s),… READ MORE

Favorite Poem: Phil Zuckerman

Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has… READ MORE

Favorite Poem: Mark Chiang

April 22, 2010

HOW TO GET THERE by Shessu Foster HOW TO GET THERE: downhill from the jail where deputies in training formation, stragglers staggering up past the school where we played football… READ MORE