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Introducing the Read New York Challenge

We are thrilled to announce a new initiative at the press this year, encouraging readers to take a look at the stories being told in and about the Empire State. The New York Reads Challenge highlights New York state books from our catalog. Sign up for the challenge and receive a free ebook each month, 40% off of the print edition, and a monthly newsletter spotlighting the book of the month. Follow us on social media for updates on each month’s selection, author profiles, and an opportunity to share your thoughts on the book. Interested in signing up for the…

Jewish art and mapping boundaries in December’s new books

The end of the year is upon us and two new books are out this month from Syracuse University Press.

Meet the Press’ Summer Intern

Arianna Taylor was awarded the Humanities Center’s Next-Generation Doctoral Internship for SU Press during summer 2025. Originally from the Bronx, they’re going into their third year as an English PhD student at Syracuse University. They also received their bachelor’s from the University of Rochester in Language, Media, and Communications (English). Currently, they’re studying African-American popular culture and how Black kinship moves between Black cultural texts to link/create Black Diasporic kinship. They’re specifically interested Black popular culture, performance studies, critical race studies, and ideas on transnational blackness. What drew you to the press? I’ve always been interested in publishing. When I…

New books in April: A final opera and a portrait of rural Egypt

This April, the press is publishing two new trade titles, one championing the life and final work of Carlisle Floyd and a new work of translated Arabic fiction.

New books out this month

Take a look at all of the new titles released this month.

New from Syracuse University Press this April

Take a look at some of the new books from SUP.

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…

New titles in October

This October, three new books from Syracuse University Press explore the lives of Syrian refugees, Palestinian marriage practices, and the mushrooms of the Empire State.

New York History Month Reading List

Celebrate New York History Month with a reading list of local history.

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…