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This year we celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday of Spiritus. It affords an opportunity to reflect on the journal’s rather remarkable trajectory, and to honor those who have contributed so much to its flourishing during its first quarter-century of publication...

Book banning may seem a minor matter in light of recent spikes in anti-trans legislation. But as “Trans Literatures,” a special issue of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies argues, the targeting of trans books is at once symptom and...

On May 8th, I was honored to accept the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing award on behalf of Dr. Charles Rowell, the founder and longtime editor of Callaloo. Callaloo started with Dr. Rowell’s vision for Black literature, namely for the inclusion and...

Koritha Mitchell is is a public intellectual, a professor of English, a literary historian, an award-winning author and cultural critic, and as of last year she is also a member of the Hopkins Press Advisory Board. Her work has already had quite an impact both...

Witches, devils, ghouls...and books! This Halloween, explore hauntingly good books from Hopkins Press, including Preserved, The Secret History of the Jersey Devil, and Dead Women Talking and uncover the mysteries and legends of the spookiest time of the year.

The Autumn 2022 issue of Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory is a special issue devoted to the later work of American poet, essayist, and feminist Adrienne Rich. While Rich's early work garnered much literary attention, her...

A recent issue of Diacritics took a look at Jonathan Culler's 2015 book Theory of the Lyric, which examined the Western lyric tradition. Elizabeth S. Anker, a colleague of Culler's at Cornell University, guest edited the issue, which grew out of the 2017...

June 8, 2019, is World Doll Day, and the most important attribute of these playthings – Jerry Griswold points out in this excerpt from Feeling Like a Kid – is how they are alive. The very young child, psychologist Jean Piaget observed, does not distinguish...

April 22 (1899) is the birthday of Vladmir Nabokov, the Russian-American author who died in 1977 and is most remembered for his controversial novel Lolita. What is extraordinary–Jerry Griswold suggests in this edited excerpt from his Audacious Kids: The...

When did the twenty-first century begin? There may briefly have been a temptation to say it began at 12:01 on the first day of January in the year 2000, in that burst of elation and relief when everyone discovered that the dreaded “Y2K bug,” instead of...