Leo Strauss on Plato’s Euthyphro

The 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings

Edited by Hannes Kerber and Svetozar Y. Minkov

“Leo Strauss on Plato’s ‘Euthyphro’ is a most valuable work of scholarship and it will prove to be of tremendous interest, and even indispensable, to scholars and students of political philosophy, religion, philosophy, and classics as a whole and of Leo Strauss and Plato in particular.”—Peter Ahrensdorf, author of Homer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy: Encounters with Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche

Prints of a New Kind

Political Caricature in the United States, 1789–1828

Allison M. Stagg

“Thoroughly engaging with a well-crafted narrative, Prints of a New Kind is a long-awaited study filling a significant void in the history of American print culture. Allison Stagg sets the stage for a modern and popularized notion of political satire. This elegantly written book, lavishly illustrated, places the American tradition of caricature as separate from its European origins, with its own merits and history worthy of detailed examination.”—Nancy Siegel, author of Along the Juniata: Thomas Cole and the Dissemination of American Landscape Imagery

Debt and Redemption in the Blues

The Call for Justice

Julia Simon

“A fabulous and much-needed book. It is a pioneering study of musicking, protest, and political economy, a call for reparations even as it directs our attention to that call in the blues. It will open our eyes, unclog our ears, and strengthen our hearts to learn that Black musicians have been leading us to justice all along. It is up to us to follow.”—Charles McGovern, author of Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945

A Laughable Empire

The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840–1890

Todd Nathan Thompson

In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., “other”) to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this substantial archival corpus, attempting to make sense of nineteenth-century American humor about Hawai’i and the rest of the Pacific world.

Fairvote says of Christopher Beem’s The Seven Democratic Virtues: “As warning signs flare about the state of American democracy, we should consider both cultural and institutional solutions. Beem’s The Seven Democratic Virtues is an empowering text that gives readers actionable steps to promote democracy through their individual behavior.”

Sun News Austin calls Notes on Footnotes “a really fascinating look at a subject that few have given more than a passing thought to.”

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research is available online for free until further notice. Check out this amazing scholarship of policy-oriented articles.

The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies is concluding its twenty-three-year journey, and the introduction to the final issue is open access indefinitely!

The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part II

Letters from Southern Babylonia

Edited by Grant Frame and Simo Parpola

The present volume completes the critical edition of the political correspondence of Assurbanipal, the first part of which was published in SAA 21. The 163 letters edited here were sent from southern Mesopotamia and Elam, mostly by governors or other high-ranking local administrators and military commanders.

An Annotated Sumerian Dictionary

Mark E. Cohen

Sumerian was the first language to be put into writing (ca. 3200–3100 BCE), and it is the language for which the cuneiform script was originally developed. Even after it was supplanted by Akkadian as the primary spoken language in ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian continued to be used as a scholarly written language until the end of the first millennium BCE. This volume presents the first comprehensive English-language scholarly lexicon of Sumerian.

Marry Me a Little

A Graphic Memoir

Rob Kirby

“Panel by panel, this graphic memoir is wry, intelligent, compelling, and adorable.”—starred review, Kirkus Reviews

The Mare

Seth C. Martel

“Centering conflicts both fantastical and mundane, Martel delivers a tale redolent in suspense and earned plot twists.’—Publishers Weekly