University of California Press

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

Surekha Davies on Machines, Monsters and Why Humanity is Still Worth Fighting For

 
By Surekha Davies  February 6, 2025
Biography

Correcting for the Male Gaze: On the Unique Challenges of Writing Biographies of Women

By Iris Jamahl Dunkle  October 17, 2024
Militarism

Agency, Power, and the Armed Forces: On the Shifting Role of Women at War

By Cynthia Enloe  September 22, 2023
The Lives of Women

Women on the Verge: The Jazz Age Origins of Burnout

By Marsha Gordon  July 5, 2023
Shelf Talkers

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Elliott Bay Book Company

By Literary Hub  October 25, 2022
Journalism

On the Legacy of Hunter S. Thompson and Gonzo Journalism

By Peter Richardson  January 5, 2022
Biography

Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

By Gabrielle Selz  October 28, 2021
Revolutions

A Revolutionary Reading List from PEN America’s World Voices Festival

By Literary Hub  May 20, 2021
Indigenous Peoples

Native Spaces: Tracing the History of California Indians and Sacred Land

By Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr.  April 21, 2021
Cundill History Prize

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

By Richard M. Eaton  October 14, 2020
Incarceration

Literature for Justice: Seven Books that Rethink Mass Incarceration

By Literary Hub  September 30, 2020
Incarceration

America’s Long History of Imprisoning Children

By Laura Briggs  June 19, 2020
Fascism

On the Revisionist Histories at the Heart of Fascism and Populism

By Federico Finchelstein  May 21, 2020
Daily Fiction

Ithaca Forever: Penelope Speaks

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Neuroscience

A Brief and Awful History
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By Andrew Scull  July 30, 2019
Economics

How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

By Lisa Duggan  May 31, 2019
Civil Rights

MLK’s Radical Alternative to Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty

By Sylvie Laurent  January 2, 2019
Biography

“Luminous Traitor”

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SILENCE = DEATH: How an Iconic Protest Poster Came Into Being

By Avram Finkelstein  December 1, 2017
Deep Dive

Ralph Ellison’s Tragicomic Soul

By Alejandro Nava  October 3, 2017
Excerpts

How French Cuisine Took Over the World

By Henry Notaker  September 13, 2017
Design

26 Maps Reveal a New York City Hiding in Plain Sight

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 29, 2016
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The Art Scene Rebels of San Francisco

By Anastasia Aukeman  September 2, 2016
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