Stanford University Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/stanford-university-press/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:38 +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 Stanford University Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/stanford-university-press/ 32 32 “To Reach across Boundaries”: Laleh Khalili Talks Solidarity and Global Trade https://www.publicbooks.org/to-reach-across-boundaries-laleh-khalili-talks-solidarity-and-global-trade/ Thu, 11 May 2023 15:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52215 “It is precisely because we are unlike, or we haven't had the same experiences, that solidarity can be built.”

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]]> The Text: Do Not Disturb https://www.publicbooks.org/the-text-do-not-disturb/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:00:34 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49207 Does loving a work of literature mean seizing it? How should critics feel about their feelings toward a text?

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]]> The Art of Intelligence https://www.publicbooks.org/art-artificial-intelligence-joanna-zylinska-mark-amerika/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:00:45 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48759 Art made by AI subverts our usual understandings of creativity as a uniquely human power.

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]]> When the Revolution Left Kate Millett Behind https://www.publicbooks.org/when-the-revolution-left-kate-millett-behind/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=38506 What was happening in the streets of Iran—what one white feminist couldn’t see—was a revolution, looking for different freedoms than the West.

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]]> Public Picks 2020 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2020/ Fri, 22 May 2020 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36167 Each year around this time we send our readers into summer with a thoughtfully curated list of the titles appearing over the past 12 months that dazzled, moved, and challenged us most.

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]]> Terminal Whiteness https://www.publicbooks.org/terminal-whiteness/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=31867 While doing fieldwork in Tennessee for his eye-opening and often harrowing new book, Dying of Whiteness, Vanderbilt University Professor Jonathan M. Metzl met Trevor. A 40-something-year-old former ...

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]]> How Does Copyright Matter? https://www.publicbooks.org/how-does-copyright-matter/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:00:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=29818 Copyright as we know it is a surprisingly recent development. It has been with us just a few decades—only as long, roughly, as Hello Kitty and the Star Wars ...

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]]> How Capitalism Changed American Literature https://www.publicbooks.org/how-capitalism-changed-american-literature/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=29381 Fifty years ago, almost every publisher in the United States was independent. Beginning in the late 1960s, multinational corporations consolidated the industry ...

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]]> Public Picks 2019 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2019/ Fri, 17 May 2019 14:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28300 Each year around this time we send our readers into summer with a curated list of the titles that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us most over the past year. For this, the seventh-annual edition of Public Picks, we’ve asked our editors for the Public Thinker series, Literary Fiction, Higher Education, Children’s & Young Adult Literature, […]

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]]> The Future of Migration https://www.publicbooks.org/the-future-of-migration/ Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=27498 In 2008, in a town of about 2,000 people, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 389 workers and charged them with civil immigration violations and identity theft. The Bush administration had decided to experiment with mass workplace arrests and assembly-line judicial proceedings. The target was a kosher meatpacking plant in rural Postville, Iowa. What most […]

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