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This spring, Vice President JD Vance announced the release of his new memoir, Communion, prompting a grassroots social media campaign that urged readers to—as The Word Is Change bookstore in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn put it—“make sure if any book called Communion...

The United States of America turns 250 years old this July — and in that time a lot of history was made!To commemorate the occasion, we dove into our catalog to surface a selection of the books and journals published by Hopkins Press exploring milestone events...

Political theorist William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, passed last week, leaving behind an influential body of work studying democracy, capitalism and culture. A frequent contributor to our...

“Ill fitting the situationOf the obsolescently skilled:Life is no goblet to be drainedBut a measure to be filled.”The prolific, witty poet and children's author X.J. Kennedy passed over the weekend, leaving us a rich body of work, including many publications...

Guest editors Grégory Pierrot and Abigail Susik introduce their new special issue of African American Review: "Black Surrealisms" — now available at Project MUSE.During his 1945 visit to Haiti, André Breton declared surrealism to have “a common cause with...