Hurricanes of Color

Iconic Rock Photography from the Beatles to Woodstock and Beyond

Mike Frankel

“Mike Frankel’s keen eye manages to capture the essence of rock ’n roll in all its sexually charged, mysterious, and hallucinatory intensity. His images are unsparing and authentic.’—Bob Spitz, best-selling author of The Beatles and Led Zeppelin

Isfahan

Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran

Farshid Emami

“Emami’s approach to Isfahan considers this imperial city as a total lifeworld filled with movement, smells, sounds, and people. His prose is simply superb: it is such a pleasure that it transforms an otherwise deeply researched scholarly study into a spirited page-turner.”—Christiane Gruber, author of The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images

Farming for Us All

Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability

Michael Mayerfeld Bell

Climate change. Habitat loss. Soil erosion. Groundwater depletion. Toxins in our food. Inhumane treatment of farm animals. Increasing farm worker exploitation. Hunger and malnutrition in the midst of plenty. What will it take for farmers in the United States to embrace sustainable practices?

Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror

Appeals to Family Memory in Putin’s Russia

Ekaterina V. Haskins

“Haskins’s innovative theoretical approach to ambient memory yields important insights into contemporary Russia and the way Stalinism and nationalism have returned to the fore. Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror is an important scholarly work and an intervention into current global trends.’Kendall R. Phillips, editor of Framing Public Memory

Vogue says that Audrey Flack’s With Darkness Came Stars “traces Flack’s sweeping career as an artist as well as the nitty-gritty of her personal life, including an abusive first marriage and the challenges of parenting a child with autism.”

Cornucopia Magazine says of Deniz Türker’s The Accidental Palace: “Every page contains revelations about the palace and the reign.”

Photographica World calls William Gallois’s Qayrawān “a remarkable piece of writing, one that breaks new ground in methods of approaching and interpreting the vast corpus of photographic imagery that has been produced by colonial occupiers of the Arab world.”

Reading Religion says that Religion Around Walter Benjamin by Brian Britt “is a detailed survey that indubitably does justice to the religious and theological atmosphere of Benjamin’s life and work.”

The first published issue of Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes is live online!

The first article of 2024 for the open-access journal Journal of Information Policy has been posted under Advance Publication.

A special issue of Bulletin for Biblical Research: “Sons of Women in the Bible” published earlier this month. View it here.

We are very excited to announce a new startup journal for 2025: American Gothic Studies! Keep an eye out for more info.

The Southern Wall of the Temple Mount and Its Corners

Past, Present and Future

Edited by Yuval Baruch, Ronny Reich, Moran Hagbi, and Joe Uziel

“The Temple Mount/Haram aš-Šarīf has fascinated scholars since the dawn of modern archaeology, and the pious for millennia before that. The studies assembled here document excavations and conservation at the southern and southwestern retaining walls of the Herodian Temple, with special care for all periods—from the Iron Age to Herod the Great to medieval Islam. This magnificent volume is a monument to decades of dedicated research, a resource for generations to come!”—Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University

Before There Were Kings

A Literary Analysis of the Book of Judges

Elie Assis

“Assis utilizes a close reading of the book of Judges and interacts with the secondary literature while contributing to a reading of the text that explains how the parts produce the whole. Before There Were Kings makes an important contribution, not simply in the method of reading, but in the particular way in which Assis’s perspective contributes to an understanding of the book.”—K. Lawson Younger, Jr., Divinity School, Trinity International University

Good Girls Go to Hell

Tohar Sherman-Friedman

“A delicate coming of age tale illuminating contemporary Israeli society. A powerful graphic novel that masterfully tackles the major conflicts of our time, including religion versus atheism, conservatism versus liberalism, and occupied territories versus the big city. Through her unparalleled talent and mastery of the comics form, Tohar Sherman-Friedman proves herself to be one of the most important voices in graphic literature today.”—Asaf Hanuka, author of The Realist

Escaping Wars and Waves

Encounters with Syrian Refugees

Olivier Kugler

“Artistically masterful. . . . Sketchbooks like Kugler’s make readers feel as if they are sitting beside the artist—watching the refugees climb onto the beach of the Greek island of Kos after crossing the Aegean from Turkey, or smelling the tea sold by a vendor in an Iraqi refugee camp.”—New York Review of Books