Whistler’s Legacy

Daniel E. Sutherland

“Dr. Sutherland’s well-established expertise continues with his insightful conclusions drawn. Whistler’s Legacy will assuredly enrich and enliven Whistlerian contexts as did his previous publications. Dr. Sutherland deftly steers readers through past scholarship while introducing impressive original perspectives to inspire new topics to pursue. He examines witnesses, offers explanations, and ultimately frames Whistler’s established image via popular culture to provide a fuller portrait of one of the most consequential artists of the nineteenth century.”—Catherine Carter Goebel, Director, Centre for Whistler Criticism

Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!

The Trials of William Rotch

Text by Sarah Crabtree, Art by Melissa Philley

“In art and text, Crabtree gives us a brilliant demonstration of the power of comics to illuminate the journey of the historian, the contingencies of narrative, and the motivations of humans.”—Trevor Getz, author of Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History

Purity Culture, Bodies, and Beliefs

Stories of Religious Trauma

Edited by Victoria Houser and Mari Ramler

“Purity Culture, Bodies, and Beliefs is a brave collection. I applaud this assembly of contributors who name traumas and explore ways they have pursued healing. The project is timely and its approach original. With the turn to critical auto ethnography, contributors mine and frame lived experience in order to confront trauma-inducing discourses within religious environments. This turn is a most compelling and welcome one.”—T J Geiger II, author of Faithful Deliberation Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings

The Aquatic Metropolis

Urban Design and Environmental Change in Tenochtitlan-Mexico City

John F. López

“John F. López’s sharp-eyed art-historical chronicle tracks Mexico City’s current ecological crisis back to its source. The Spanish invasion of the Aztec city unleashed a centuries—long struggle over water, during which environmental ideologies clashed and technological fixes failed. Vanquish water like an enemy? Live with water as an ally? Drawing on Indigenous manuscripts, urban maps, oil paintings, and other images, The Aquatic Metropolis reveals how competing water epistemes shaped the historic city.”—Barbara E. Mundy, author of The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

Reading Religion called Adriaan van Klinken’s Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature “an ambitious and valuable monograph.”

The Friend said of Sarah Crabtree and Melissa Philley’s Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!: “It’s an extraordinary story, but so is this book’s format, which tells the tangled and complex tale beautifully by presenting the Rotches’ lives in comic strip form.“

New in 2027: Arab Americana! This biannual journal will adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding Arab American life in the United States and across the Arab American diaspora through refereed secondary scholarship and original work produced in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and professional fields such as education, public health, the law, social work, informatics, media studies, business, and government affairs. Arab Americana is sponsored by the Center for Arab Narratives, A National Institution of ACCESS, and supported by the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis.

“[George] Orwell thought writers had an obligation to report honestly on the human situation as it played out in front of their eyes (or, as he would have put it, in front of their noses), especially in politically divisive times. . . For Orwell, Dickens was the epitome of this kind of writer, someone ‘who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened’. . . Dickens epitomized the idea of the writer as moral watchdog, the conscience of a society.” Read “Fellow Travelers: Wilson, Orwell, Trilling, Dickens” from Dickens Studies Annual 57:1 for free through 7/3.

Discover, read, and share a collection of free journal articles from The Chaucer Review, curated by the new editors, Dr. Megan E. Murton (The Catholic University of America) and Dr. Leah Schwebel (Texas State University). The articles will be free to read through June 30, 2026.

Congratulations to Eric Novotny, founding co-editor of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, on his retirement from the Penn State University Libraries after more than 25 years of service!

Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Comparative Study of Semitic Languages

Proceedings of the 7th and 8th Meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics

Edited by Tawny L. Holm and Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala

This volume offers a wealth of perspectives on comparative Semitic linguistics emerging from the seventh and eighth meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics (IACS): the Madrid symposium (2016) was devoted to the role of Akkadian in the study of Comparative Semitics, and the Córdoba meeting (2019) focused on Syria at the historical crossroads of Semitic languages.

Hippos (Sussita) of the Decapolis

The Civic Basilica and the Southern Bathhouse

Arleta Kowalewska and Michael Eisenberg

“Kowalewska and Eisenberg’s Hippos (Sussita) of the Decapolis is a major achievement in Classical Archaeology of the Near East. The volume presents a wealth of new data with clarity and scholarly precision, offering fresh insights into Hippos’s urban development and cultural history. Particularly striking is the Civic Basilica, whose stucco decoration makes it a unique monument in the region. With contributions by leading experts, this book is an indispensable resource for researchers and libraries alike.”—Achim Lichtenberger, coauthor of Hellenistic Nysa-Scythopolis I: The German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project, the 2019–2020 Seasons

Gay Mormon Dad

Written by Chad Anderson, art by Remy Burke

“An illuminating, exhilarating graphic memoir. . . about escaping from a stifling, closeted life to achieve fulfillment and independence.”—Foreword Reviews

Infected for Science

Written by Sydney Halpern, art by Trygve Faste

“A winning work of graphic medicine”—starred review, Booklist