University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best articles from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. (And look back at our University Press Roundup Manifesto to see why we do this post every Friday.)

Ever experience frustration while learning French? Cambridge University Press’s blog tackles that pesky challenge of French word order. Read about questions over word inversion or whether or not that adjective goes before the noun thanks to French grammar expert, Ron Batchelor.

“Despite legal and procedural reforms, Missoula remains in murky territory where people on all sides of the issue cling to the fiction that society can somehow expel, arrest, prosecute, imprison, and censor its way into a less sexually violent future.” This week, Beacon Broadside Press explores the controversy growing around Jon Krakauer’s new book Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town in the Montana town on which it covers. Read writer and activist Kay Whitlock’s take on the matter.

Read the last of Duke University Press’s celebration of National Poetry Month with their Poem of the Week. On display this week is Ariel Dorfman’s “First Prologue: Simultaneous Translation” from his 2002 book In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land.

This week John’s Hopkins University Press has a better solution for Doug Hughes in order to get the attention of Congress without flying a gyro-copter onto the White House lawn. Read professor and writer Benjamin Alexander’s portrayal of Jacob Coxey and Carl Browne and their 1894 attempt to march up to the Capitol with an army of unemployed men.

Need an update on your go-to salsa recipe for this weekend? Minnesota Historical Society Press has got you covered with chef and writer Sue Doeden’s take on a honey balsamic black bean and mango salsa.

Did you know that the internet is powered by light? Check out other things you never knew about light on Oxford University Press’s blog this week in their post celebrating 2015, the year the UN has deemed the “International Year of Light.”

This week, The University of Virginia Press has posted a full recording and transcript of a March 19, 1971 conversation between Nixon and Kissinger regarding the withdrawal of troops in Vietnam to observe the fortieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Hear Nixon voice his worry over his upcoming campaign.

Anxiously awaiting your chance to read Toni Morrison’s new book God Help the Child? Read author Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman’s take and praise and her musings about its relationship to her own scholarly work in the meantime on The University of Texas Press blog.

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