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Here at HUP, where we try to keep the flame for Walter Benjamin in some respects, we maintain connections with legions of Benjamin devotees throughout the academic world. One of them, Rachel Jacoff, Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T...
This month, we're publishing a new verse translation of a Renaissance epic, a poem that inspired Borges, Calvino, Vivaldi, Hayden, Handel, Shakespeare, Spenser, Byron, and a host of others. Its significance in Western literature simply cannot be exaggerated...
The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry was endowed in 1925 by C. C. Stillman to honor the university's first Professor of the History of Art...
The renowned literary critic and many-time HUP author Barbara Johnson died on August 27...
From The Economist:In the courtliest of tones, Mr. Sen charges John Rawls, an American philosopher who died in 2002, with sending political thinkers up a tortuous blind alley...
Since we're publishing this month a collection of the wit and wisdom of one of our most formidable and literate First Ladies, thought we would re-post a link to the video of an event we put on in 2007 to celebrate the publication of My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, in which we...
This month we're publishing The Quotable Abigail Adams, edited by John P. Kaminski. For the book, Kaminski mined Abigail's writings--including letters to friends, neighbors, family and even heads of state--and selected quotations that best embody her wit and wisdom...
[click image for full size]Michael Hardt is the author, with Antonio Negri, of Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth. Commonwealth is available from HUP late-September 2009.
Just got the first finished copies of an exciting book from our Fall list...
The HUP Display Room as it looked in 1966: The Display Room, located in the Holyoke Center arcade in the heart of Harvard Square, closed on June 17 of this year. More on the display room plus a few more photos from Harvard Magazine.
G. A. Cohen, perhaps "the leading political philosopher of the left," has died, aged 68. Guardian obituary here; a personal remembrance from Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber; Cohen's thoughts on Rawls covered on the HUP blog.
Over at the Hoover Institution, Robert Service and Christopher Hitchens have begun adiscussion of Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Service is a senior fellow at the Hoover and the author of of seven books with Harvard Press, including Lenin, Stalinand the forthcoming Trotsky...
We've just put up a new site dedicated to A New Literary History of America, the massive tome via which a distinguished editorial board and cast of hundreds have set out to build an answer to the question "what is America?" The first review is in -- a "mighty history and reference work for our...
