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INFORMATION & CULTURE 61:2 has now published! Available Open Access on Project MUSE through the S2O Subscribe to Open program: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/57378

ATTENTION! Due to power outages at our distributor, books cannot be ordered on our website at the moment. We expect this issue to be resolved soon!

The 2026 volume of FREEDOM SCHOOLS: A Journal of Democracy & Community is now available! Vol. 3 features new articles and essays including "A Commonwealth of Freedom: Building Citizenship Schools for the Global Era" by Harry C. Boyte, and "Public Philosophy for American Union: Renewing Popular Democratic Republicanism" by Robert M. Ceresa and Nicholas Onuf. Check out the full volume to read these insightful contributions

August has arrived, and so have our newest releases! We are excited to present TRANSCENDENCE, published in partnership with the Art Galleries at Black Studies at UT Austin, alongside PROBLEMATIC PARADIGMS AND THE CONTOURS OF US LATINIDAD and DOCUMENTING IRAN.

Explore our August releases on our website: https://utpress.utexas.edu/

We’re looking forward to this upcoming virtual talk about OUT OF THE GUTTERS hosted by The Book Club of California! Editors Jorge J. Santos and Patrick S. Lawrence will dive into obscenity, censorship, and how California counterculture radically transformed American comics. 🗯️

📚 OUT OF THE GUTTERS: How California Comix Saved Comics
🗓️ Monday, Aug 24 @ 5 PM PT (Virtual)

🔗 Reserve your spot here:

Out of the Gutters: How California Comix Saved Comics - The Book Club of California Out of the Gutters: Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression, edited by Jorge J. Santos and Patrick S. Lawrence, explores US comics that have been challenged for their boundary-breaking content. Covering well-known underground figures like R. Crumb and Charles Burns, newcomers such as C. Spike Trotm...

For nearly sixty years, the public memory of the 1966 UT Austin mass shooting has been dominated by the figure of the sniper, providing a template for our culture’s understanding of such atrocities. But a powerful feature on Literary Hub by Jo Scott-Coe—author of UNHEARD WITNESS: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman—argues that it is time to dismantle this template of sensationalism and look at the stories that go missing in the wake of tragedy.

Read the full essay here: https://lithub.com/restoring-the-voice-of-kathy-leissner-whitman-the-texas-tower-snipers-first-victim/

Learn more about UNHEARD WITNESS, a book that foregrounds a young woman’s experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.

https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327647/

The 2026 volume of STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE is now available.
Here’s a look at the contents of Vol. 44, and as a reminder, this issue is Open Access on
Project MUSE through the S2O Subscribe to Open program!

https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/506

Final days to stack your shelves & save on summer reads! ☀️ Save 40% on print and 50% on ebooks with code UTXSUMMER!

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Summer Book Sale Get 40% off all print books and 50% off all ebooks during our summer book sale. The University of Texas Press is pleased to offer our annual summer book

TEXAS NATIONAL SECURITY REVIEW has just published their latest issue on “New
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