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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day

For Indigenous Peoples Day, we’re celebrating the work of poet and member of Haudenosaunee tribe Eric Gansworth, whose book, A Half-Life of Cardi-Pulmonary Function charts the tensions of those struggling against the norms of the dominant culture with humor, heart and image-laden lines. Below are excerpts from A Half-Life of Cardi-Pulmonary Function, including some of the art pieces from the book. The Way Howdy Reveals In this poem you would thinkHowdy was a greeting, likeSomething from those old westernsWhere the Indians are defeatedAgain and again, no matterHow many of them there areAnd how many arrows they have but you would…

Excerpt: Mad Scholars

The following is an excerpt from Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, edited by Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafai and published by Syracuse University Press, Copyright 2024 by Syracuse University Press. The excerpt is drawn from the introduction, written by the editors. This collection explores how our Mad selfhood is understood, articulated, and engaged through our capacity as scholars. It wonders where we might go if we embraced that overlap instead of shunning it: if we probed its depths and exploded its boundaries.” From the start, Mad Scholars has emerged from a place of hopeful, desperate imagining. What…

Halloween Reads from SUP

Happy Halloween, readers! Alongside our many celebrated series, SUP has published a number of books fitting the holiday, such as tracing the history of werewolf legends, examining the minds of killers and a psychiatrist with an unhealthy appetite, and deeply analyzing one of the most famous and iconic vampires of all time. That being said, this year, we wanted to know what really scares the SUP staff and put together a list of some of our recommended literary horror tales. Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano “Creepy” is the main descriptor for this one. When the protagonist visits a tiny island…

Holiday Planning with ‘The Sensible Cook’

As Thanksgiving and winter holidays approach, many people return to classic and treasured family recipes, returning to traditional favorite foods. At Syracuse University Press, we wanted to see what books in our library may help plan a traditional Thanksgiving. With that in mind, we turn to The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World. Originally published in Dutch in 1667, the SUP edition was republished in 1998 with a new translation and commentary by Peter G. Rose, The Sensible Cook allows a look back at middle class Dutch life in the 17th Century, both in the…

Holiday Sales picks for everyone on your list!

Happy Holidays, readers! Until December 15, all of our books are 40% off in our annual Holiday Sale. That’s hundreds of titles across dozens of our series. For those less sure of what they’re looking for, we can offer some suitable gifting advice for the season. The Decoration of Houses Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses, co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated on the design of the author’s Massachusetts home, The Mount, advocated for…

New in paperback from Syracuse University Press

As 2024 comes to a close, don’t miss a chance to take a look at some of the Syracuse University Press titles available for the first time in paperback this year. These books are also available in our ongoing Holiday Sale! “Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History: New York Oral Narratives from the Notes of H. E. Allen and Others” by Anthony Wonderley explores the uniquely Haudenosaunee and Oneida components in the Native American oral narrative as it existed at the beginning of the 20th Century. “In Search of Walid Masoud: A Novel” by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra is the story…

News and Reviews from SUP

Recent coverage and events Talar Chahinian wins the Society for Armenian Studies Outstanding Book Award Anjili Babar wins the 2024 Macavity Award for Nonfiction/Critical from Mystery Readers International for The Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction Book launch for War and Imagination: Perspectives from the Hudson Review at the New York Society Library on October 15. Talar Chahinian’s Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile named an honorable mention for ASEEES’ 2024 University of Southern California Book Prize. Maha AbdelMegeed on publishing her book, Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda on the TRAFO…

Open Access Week: Building Equity in Scholarly Publishing

“Community over Commercialization” is the theme for Open Access Week this year—and the SU Libraries and SU Press are both helping to build a scholarly publishing community centered on equitable access for all. In the spring of 2023, the Libraries subscribed to the Path to Open collection at the same time that SU Press signed up to make some of its e-books available through this pilot program. This innovative initiative comes from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in partnership with the University of Michigan Press, the University of North Carolina Press, and JSTOR. It aims to create a…

Q&A with Uncommon Allies author Alan Shore

Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting against Hitler, 1933-1945 illuminates the origins of this interfaith collaboration, demonstrating that Judeo-Christian values were present before the Holocaust. Using an impressive array of English and Yiddish newspapers to inform his work, Alan Shore paints a vivid picture of vibrant rallies at Madison Square Garden, with both Christians and Jews eager to speak out against the terror of Nazism. We sat down with Shore for a quick Q&A about the book and his research process. What pushed you to write this book now? What do you hope to accomplish with your audience? One…