University of Chicago Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university-of-chicago-press/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png University of Chicago Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university-of-chicago-press/ 32 32 What Works: Lessons on Fighting Oppression and Building Power From Across the Globe https://www.publicbooks.org/what-works-lessons-on-fighting-oppression-and-building-power-from-across-the-globe/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56793 When, how, and why does collective organizing achieve positive effects for those engaging in this difficult, and oftentimes risky, endeavor?

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]]> Interpret or Judge?: John Guillory on the Future of Literary Criticism https://www.publicbooks.org/interpret-or-judge-john-guillory-on-the-future-of-literary-criticism/ Thu, 02 May 2024 15:00:21 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56049 “‘Professing criticism’ is a contradiction and maybe even an impossibility. I’d like to hope that it’s not, that it’s just an innovation, historically.”

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]]> Surfing; Or How to Consume a Beach https://www.publicbooks.org/surfing-or-how-to-consume-a-beach/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:00:15 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55223 The keys to surfing—wetsuits, surf forecasting, and surfboard manufacturing—emerged from Southern California’s military-industrial complex.

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]]> This Is Your Brain on Books https://www.publicbooks.org/this-is-your-brain-on-books/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:00:21 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54302 “Reading occupies a strange position in today’s world, being at once physiologically unnecessary and culturally central.”

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]]> Oil and Injury in Los Angeles https://www.publicbooks.org/oil-and-injury-in-los-angeles/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:00:36 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53744 The city’s ports may be physically located in the imperial core—inside the barricades of the USA—but their tendrils span the globe.

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]]> What Really Makes Cities Global? https://www.publicbooks.org/what-really-makes-cities-global/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:00:45 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53104 To ask what kind of city Los Angeles is today is, also, to wonder what kind of city it could be tomorrow.

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]]> Neoliberal Keywords: Creative, Passionate, Confident https://www.publicbooks.org/neoliberal-keywords-creative-passionate-confident/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52573 When did we all become so empowered, passionate, and self-enterprising?

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]]> Finding the Latinx City with Mike Amezcua and Pedro A. Regalado https://www.publicbooks.org/finding-the-latinx-city-with-mike-amezcua-and-pedro-a-regalado/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:00:57 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52547 “Sometimes Latino urban history is thought of as the history of a cultural community and that’s a little dismissive. I examine people contesting and reshaping the use of space.”

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]]> Dual Use: When Technology Both Helps and Hurts https://www.publicbooks.org/dual-use-when-technology-both-helps-and-hurts/ Thu, 25 May 2023 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52314 The struggle between the use of math for benevolent or malevolent purposes carries from at least WWII into today’s debates on AI.

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]]> Ogden & Hardwick’s Everyday Enigmas https://www.publicbooks.org/ogden-hardwicks-everyday-enigmas/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51872 “Good afternoon, ma’am. Do you ever feel that it is so hard to know how to be happy?”

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