51ÁÔÆæ

Oscar-winning documentarians, filmmakers, a cine-historian and video-essayist, the list goes on. Throughout this volume, which completes MacDonald’s “avant-doc trilogy,” readers will find interviews and essays that “model a generalist approach to modern audiovisual media, prioritizing remarkable cinematic accomplishments that can get lost within our overwhelming modern mediascape.”

Winner of the 2023 Bunny chapbook contest, Naughton’s slim book of poetry describes debt as something intensely private, yet significantly interconnected with global systems of power.

Through a series of compelling conversations with Lassoe, a psychotherapist, a woman named Diane shares the story of how she overcame significant hardships and abuse with unwavering resilience. Her intimate memories as a white woman who spends most of her life in an African American community also offer a fascinating perspective on race relations.

By trade, Worden is a lawyer who focuses on helping people and corporations reach fair settlements in high-stakes lawsuits. In this book he shares several surprising stories about individuals and events that led to the three pivotal American wars.

This collection features 12 stories (11 of which have been previously published in literary magazines) set in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas. Also included is the first chapter of one of two novels the author has written in the last six years.

The author, an associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and enduring incubators of Marcus Garvey’s Black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and its offshoots.

(Oxford University Press, 2025).

Along with Merouan Mekouar, a York University social scientist, Jumet compiled “narratives from 19 scholars, representing 15 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, South America, Central Asia, and South Asia, who conducted fieldwork in their native repressive and/or illiberal countries,” according to the publisher’s description.

(Northwestern University Press, 2025)

A study of how unusually bright comets appeared not only in the sky in 1664-65 and 1680-81, but also in ballets and theater, letters and journalism, architecture and institutions, theology and literary style. The author, a French literature and culture professor at the University of California Davis, discusses how these comets — considered at the time to appear in random and unpredictable locations — sparked curiosity, scrutiny, resistance, and doubt regarding the epistemological status of observation.

(Skyhorse Publishing, 2024)

For many families, homelessness is no longer someone else’s problem. It is right around the corner, a real threat in their own immediate future. The author goes on to maintain, “Our housing crisis is the result of a long history of government policies, court cases, and political manipulation. While these disparate causes make up a tangled web, they have one surprising root: the attack on private property rights. For more than a century, government policies and court decisions have attacked, undermined, and eroded private property rights. Whether it be exclusionary zoning, eminent domain abuse, rent control, or excessive environmental regulations, the cumulative impact of these assaults on private property is that it’s become increasingly difficult — or even impossible — to build adequate housing supplies to meet market demands. We are fast approaching a time when millions of typical Americans will, quite literally, have nowhere to live.” 
         

(Marrowstone Press, 2024)

In this, his fifth self-declared “last book” of poems (this time he probably means it!), Weltner devotes the first half to reflections on his time at 51ÁÔÆæ. The collection that fills the section “Late Winter Snow on College Hill” is dedicated to members of his Class of 1964 and in memory of his longtime friend Sam Crowl ’62.