Northwestern University Press

EVANSTON, IL— The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Northwestern University Press (NUP) are pleased to announce that Daniel Majchrowicz and David Boyk are the winners of the 2026-27 Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize for The Ajeeb Society, a collection of Urdu short stories by acclaime...

EVANSTON, IL—New Studies in the Age of Goethe, the renowned book series sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America (GSNA), has been acquired by Northwestern U...

To celebrate the publication of their debut story collections, we put Hilal Isler and Sima Qadeer in conversation to discuss writing, displacement, stereotypes, and creating new narratives in which women can be complicated, rebel, fall in love (ill-advisedly), have sex, and grow old.

Isler’s collection

My spooky novella, The Turn, is out! A Gothic governess story in the nineteenth-century tradition, The Turn is inspired in part by many years of thinking and writing about, and teaching, the history of Gothic fiction. The title is a nod to Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, there’s a line from Carmilla hidden in the book, and it’s also ha...