Brandeis University Press

02/18/2025

02/11/2025

We have an amazing lineup of free events celebrating BOOKSTORE ROMANCE and Valentine's Day this week! We hope to see you at one (or all 🥰) of these wonderful talks. Registration information for each date at the link in our bio.

02/07/2025

Valentine's Day is just around the corner... and so are our events celebrating BOOKSTORE ROMANCE! We're soooo in love with this amazing chalkboard art on display at . We hope you'll join author Judith Rosen and Community Engagement Coordinator Alex Schaffner at the bookstore on Feb. 13 for a conversation about indie bookstores, community building — and love!

02/05/2025

Happy Black History Month! We’re celebrating this month by featuring some titles that highlight the Black experience, from a biography of the first Black student to graduate from the Ivy League in 1828, to stories about Black healthcare workers, we hope these perspectives deepen your understanding of Black American history. 

02/05/2025

BOOKSTORE ROMANCE:LOVE SPEAKS VOLUMES celebrates in words and pictures not only a couple’s love for each other but their passion for books and their bookstore. Written by Judith Rosen, former long-time bookselling editor and New England correspondent for Publishers Weekly, the book features the stories of 24 couples who celebrated their engagements and weddings at bookstores around the country. A portion of the proceeds benefits Binc.

And Brandeis University Press is having a giveaway centered on bookish love via their social media. Check it out!


Brandeis University Press

01/31/2025

Looking for love? Why not try a bookstore? We’re giving away five copies of our brand new book, BOOKSTORE ROMANCE: LOVE SPEAKS VOLUMES and five special edition tote bags.
Follow us, tag us, and use for a chance to win! Winners will be announced on Valentine’s Day... 
We can’t wait to hear about your love stories... and your favorite bookstores!

From proposals to “I do”, book-lovers find their perfect match at bookstores they love.... BOOKSTORE ROMANCE is an irresistible book of stories and pictures of couples who celebrated their engagements or weddings in their favorite independent bookstores. This lovely book is a « bibliophile’s time capsule and an enduring record of love and literary obsessions » and « a swoonworthy coffee table book » (Foreword Magazine Reviews).
A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to

01/29/2025

Find out how the Oscars shaped the entire film industry in THE ACADEMY AND THE AWARD — a fascinating deep-dive into film history and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 🌟🎥🌟

01/24/2025

Mazal tov to Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks on winning the 74th National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies for "Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women's Rights in Israel"! A Brandeis University Press publication in the Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law, under the auspices of HBI, "Holy Rebellion" details the impact of orthodox feminism in modern day Israel and offers incisive analysis of the possibilities for change in the future. https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/74th-national-jewish-book-award-winners Jewish Book Council

HBI will be hosting two events marking the launch of "Holy Rebellion". If you are in the Boston area, join us in person on March 3rd for a special panel discussion. On March 12, join us for an online event with the authors in our Sandra Seltzer Silberman Conversations Series. More information: https://bit.ly/HBIEVENTS

01/24/2025

Just published! 👉 https://bit.ly/40I7Eoc
A Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University talk in partnership with American Ancestors and Brandeis University Press with Nicholas Nugent and William Fowler Jr. to talk about Nugent's book, the Spice Ports and how the pursue of spices shaped the world.

01/13/2025

Thanks to all who came to Nicholas Nugent’s talk and book signing. We were thrilled to have such an engaged audience!
You’ll have another opportunity to hear Nicholas Nugent speak about his brilliant new book, The Spice Ports, on Tuesday Jan. 14 (tomorrow!) at 6pm eastern. This is a free, virtual webinar, hosted in partnership with and . Link to register is in our bio.

01/09/2025

You’ll have plenty of opportunities to catch author Nicholas Nugent at one of these exciting events celebrating his fascinating and gorgeously illustrated book The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade. Links to register are in our bio! (Argosy Books event does not require advance registration)

The Spice Ports is available at your local bookseller or on our website.

12/19/2024

If you enjoyed watching Escape at Dannemora on , we recommend you pick up a copy of Michael Benson’s book Escape From Dannemora: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt for an even deeper dive into this 2015 prison break.

12/16/2024

Check out our upcoming titles! From a cultural history of the Atlantic told through coquilla nut artifacts, to a New York City birding guide, to a new edition of a seminal work of sociology and literary criticism (and much more in between), there’s something for everyone in our Spring 2025 catalog... Let us know in the comments what you’re most excited to read!

12/13/2024

In honor of our spectacular intern’s last day, we sampled some cookies. And of course we had to match them to some of our books. Here is our definitive ranking of the cookies (but we’re not ranking the books — we love all of our books equally 😌):

1- Cinnamon Crunch
2- Raspberry Butter Cake
3- Semisweet Chocolate Chunk
4- Cowboy Cookie
5- Cookies & Cream
That is all. Thank you, Vanessa, for an incredible semester.

12/09/2024

Calling all Swifties mourning the end of tour — don’t these Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry...?

This gorgeous new edition of William Wordsworth’s THE PRELUDE, edited by James Engell and Michael D. Raymond, is the perfect holiday gift for the poetry lover in your life. Filled with contemporaneous illustrations from the Yale Center for British Art and other prestigious collections, this poetic masterwork is revived for readers in this immersive edition.

But hey... what are our words worth? 😉 Check out these illustrations from THE PRELUDE and decide for yourself!

11/21/2024

Just published 💬 https://bit.ly/3AFCHHn
Author Susan Eaton discusses her latest book, The Other Boston Busing Story, which gives voices to graduates of METCO, America’s longest-running voluntary school desegregation program with Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University - Brandeis University Press

11/13/2024

University Press Week is here! We're proud to share that Annette Kehnel's THE GREEN AGES is featured in the gallery on Science & Environment, spotlighting how university presses advance and promote innovative ideas and scholarship. Association of University Presses

This week, THE GREEN AGES is 20% off on our website. Use code GREENAGES at checkout.