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- The Gilded Age on Syracuse’s James Street selected for the CNY Heritage Award
November 21, 2025
The Gilded Age on Syracuse’s James Street by Dennis Connors and edited by Gregg Tripoli was selected for the Preservation Association of New York’s CNY Heritage Award. The award will be presented at PACNY’s 2025 Annual Preservation Awards on December 5 at St. Paul’s Syracuse. Order Tickets
- Zaghmout in Literary Hub’s roundup of translations
November 21, 2025
In honor of University Press Week, Literary Hub selected 17 exemplary translated books including The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout and Translated from the Arabic by Wasan Abdelhaq. Also making the list is translator of Castigation, Shelley Fairweather-Vega. Read more
- Veterans Writing Weekend featured in the Daily Orange
November 21, 2025
Moderated by Cassiah Sears the military veteran panelists—Robin Caudell, Brian O’Hare, Dewaine Farria, and Jenny Pacanowski—discussed why they joined the military and their experiences with writing on Friday night. Later in the weekend, each one got a chance to read some of their work for other workshop participants. Read the article
- Castigation reviewed in Asymptote
September 26, 2025
Castigation by Sultan Raev and translated from the Kyrgyz by Shelley Fairweather-Vega was reviewed in Asymptote. “Rich with polyphony and plethoric subtexts, Castigation rewards careful reading—and rereading.” Read full review
- Adirondack Daily Enterprise reviews Sketching the Adirondacks
August 29, 2025
Adirondack Daily Enterprise reviews Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness by Edward I. Pitts “Today, travel through the Adirondacks is easy, summer traffic notwithstanding. This entertaining and instructive volume will convince any reader that it wasn’t always so.” Read full review
- The Man of Middling Height reviewed on Underrated Reads
August 20, 2025
“A gripping work of speculative fiction—thought-provoking, unsettling, and difficult to put down. Zaghmount’s imaginative story forces us to question the “natural” order of our own world, revealing just how arbitrary and dangerous such hierarchies can be.”—Underrated Reads Read the full review
- Interview with Shareah Taleghani
August 20, 2025
Antidote Zine published interview with Shareah Taleghani, author of Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights that explores the intertwined relationships between prison writings, oppositional political movements in Syria, and modern Arabic literary experimentalism. Read the interview
- Suciyan interviewed on the New Books Network
August 11, 2025
Talin Suciyan, author of Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces was interviewed by Ari Barbalat on the New Books Network. Summary: The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the backdrop to modern Turkey. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s exhortation ...
- We Never Swim in the Same River Twice reviewed by World Literature Today
July 2, 2025
We Never Swim in the Same River Twice by Hassouna Mosbahi and translated was recently reviewed by World Literature Today “Mosbahi’s high reputation as a novelist will not be hurt by this very readable work, which gives a vivid if not especially pleasant picture of post–Arab Spring Tunisia; nor will anyone but the most intransigent of ...
- Chicago Tribune column features Watching TV
June 16, 2025
When Harry met Wally, the result was a definitive book on how to watch television by Rick Kogan They were young wide-eyed students when they met at Northwestern University. Walter Podrazik was from Bridgeport and Harry Castleman from Boston and it did not take them long to discover that they shared a passion for The Beatles. They ...
- The Preservation Association of Central New York Award Ceremony
12/05/2025
- SU Press at the Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference
12/14/2025 - 12/16/2025