Happy Holidays from Syracuse University Press! 2024 was a full and busy year for the press as we published dozens of new titles with more coming in 2025. As the year ends, we wanted to share some of our favorite moments from the year and celebrate some of 2024’s award winning books.
Author Emily Orlando’s introduction to the newly annotated “A Decoration of Houses” is featured on LitHub.
Phil Arnold discusses environmentalism and conservation based in religious tradition, as well as his book “The Urgency of Indigenous Values” with the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology.
In their review, the Jewish Book Council says of Rachel Mines’ translation of Jonah Rosenfeld’s “A Plague of Cholera,” “It’s a mitzvah that Mines continues to reintroduce Rosenfeld’s work to the world.
“War Remains: Rumination and Resistance in Lebanon” by Yasmine Khayyat received an honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies.
Nina Shengold read from her book, “Reservoir Year,” on the Holiday Story Hour episode of the Valley Girls Podcast.
“We Never Swim in the Same River Twice,” by Hassouna Mosbahi and translated by William Maynard Hutchins was featured in Markaz’s top 10 books to look forward to this fall.
Anjili Babbar’s The Finders won the 2024 Macavity Award for Nonfiction/Critical from Mystery Readers International.
Author Peter Lourie talks to North Country Public Radio about his canoe journey down the entire Hudson River and his book “River of Mountains.”
Syracuse University Press will be closed at the end of the day on December 20 and will reopen on January 2, 2025. Book orders can still be made through the website during this time.