First, I have a bias. I went to Wayne State University in Detroit as a journalism and English major in the mid-’80s. I love Detroit, through good times and bad, and enjoyed almost every day at WSU. With its an urban campus, an older... Read More

University presses are the intellectual vanguard of publishing. Their aims can never be solely commercial or corporate. They operate under different parameters than other publishing houses as both stewards of intellectual and artistic... Read More

It has been said that Michigan was first in the recession, and last out. So, by 2006, with the decline of the auto industry already under way, it took a bit of chutzpah for a university press based in one of the most-maligned, grittiest... Read More

University presses are the intellectual vanguard of publishing. Their aims can never be solely commercial or corporate. They operate under different parameters than other publishing houses as both stewards of intellectual and artistic... Read More

It’s no secret: we love university presses, and this annual feature represents our ten favorite books from the eighty or so universities we regularly cover. A Canterbury Pilgrimage / An Italian Pilgrimage Elizabeth Robins Pennell Joseph... Read More

Dig Darwin. Down as he was with climbing the social ladder, albeit out of the primordial swamp. Make something of yourself, amoeba. Get the evolutionary process started. Bring on opposable thumbs, consciousness, wisdom and language, Plato... Read More