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On June 16, 2022, Foreword Reviews announced the winners for the 2021 INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Over 2,500 entries were submitted across 55 genres, with Foreword’s editors choosing approximately 9 finalists per genre. Those finalist books were then mailed to individual librarians and booksellers tasked with picking the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention winners. Four University of Notre Dame Press…

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On September 1, 2022, the University of Notre Dame Press will publish Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine, translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski, with a foreword by Pierre Manent. Winner of the prestigious 2005 Philippe Habert Prize, the late Émile Perreau-Saussine’s Alasdair MacIntyre: Une biographie intellectuelle…

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The University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to announce that Christopher Rios-Sueverkruebbe, a 5+1 Postdoctoral Fellow, has started his university press publishing career as an assistant editor at Rutgers University Press, where he will be acquiring in religious and Jewish studies. He holds a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Notre Dame. His interests in religious and Jewish studies include their intersections with sociology, anthropology, the body, gender and sexuality, the arts, Latin American studies, national and cultural identity, philosophy, and history. …

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The University of Notre Dame Press is delighted to present two new titles in the Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies series. The series brings senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines. Notre Dame Press then publishes the lectures. These new titles are the eleventh and twelfth volumes of the series: The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse…

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Mother’s Day is observed on May 8 this year. To celebrate our mothers, grandmothers, aunties, godmothers, sisters, and dads who perform both roles on this national holiday and indeed on every day, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce the publication on August 1, 2022, of Maya Sonenberg’s brilliant short story collection Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters…

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The first English translations of Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s books, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 (2021) and Between Two Millstones, Book 2 (2020), have been widely discussed in the media, most recently in The New York Review of Books…

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This interactive map is a companion resource to The Red Wheel, Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn…

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Every year on April 22, governments, institutions, businesses, and people across the globe collectively honor planet Earth and recognize the ever-pressing necessity of transitioning to a more equitable green economy. This year's National Earth Day theme, Invest in Our Planet…

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The University of Notre Dame Press is excited to present its catalog of Fall 2022 titles. This collection promises to engage readers with a broad range of subjects, from environmental studies to U.S. politics to African American history.…

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2021 was a remarkable year for the University of Notre Dame Press. Book sales increased 20% over the previous year with nearly 60,000 print books sold in the U.S. and more than 6,000 books sold internationally. E-book sales also experienced a strong uptick, including the sale of digital backlist titles, many of which were originally published decades ago in print editions.…

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Monk's Notre Dame by president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., is available in a new paperback edition on April 1, 2022. This wonderful collection of humorous, poignant, and revealing stories and anecdotes offers special insight into the university, from which Father “Monk” Malloy first received his B. A. degree in 1963 and then went on to serve so faithfully for almost five decades, starting in 1974.…

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In recent years, the theological—and, more specifically, Roman Catholic—question of the supernatural has made an astonishing return from seeming oblivion.

The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce the release of You Are Gods by David Bentley Hart…

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Greg Bourke will receive the GALA ND/SMC and ARC ND Distinguished Alumni Award at the University of Notre Dame. The distinguished alumni award is given to graduates of either Notre Dame or Saint Mary’s College who have made significant contributions to the LGBTQ+ community through their professional or community service activities. …

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The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce that on March 14, 2022, six of our titles were selected as Finalists for the 2021 INDIES Book of the Year Awards…

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James R. Langford, director of Notre Dame Press for 25 years and a longtime community leader in service to inner-city children, died March 3 in South Bend. He was 84.

Raised in South Bend, Langford overcame a stroke at birth to become a state tennis champion at St. Joseph High School, followed by enrollment in 1955 across the street at the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in journalism.…

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Each year the Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL) awards a Book-of-the-Year Award to the author and publisher of the work that has “contributed most to the dialogue between literature and the Christian faith.” This year, the CCL’s Award Committee selected Christina Bieber Lake’s Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism…

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On Monday, April 11, 2022, 4:30–6:30 p.m. EST, the John R. Reilly Center and the Notre Dame International Security Center will co-host a book launch for "Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War…

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In April 1917, the entry of America into World War I marks one of the major turning points in the nation's history. In the span of just nineteen months, the United States sent nearly two million troops overseas, established a robust propaganda apparatus, and created an unparalleled war machine that played a major role in securing Allied victory in the fall of 1918. At the helm of the nation, Woodrow Wilson and his administration battled against political dissidence, domestic and international controversies, and their own lack of experience leading a massive war effort.…

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University of Notre Dame Press Director Stephen Wrinn is interviewed in the latest issue of NDWorks. The piece, written by Natalie Davis Miller, captures how Notre Dame Press operates today. Miller describes how the editorial staff selects titles to be published among hundreds of submissions, outlines how the ND Press team guides a manuscript from submission to publication, and explains the Press's critical role within the academic…

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In a world where complex technologies clash with escalating international tensions, how can artificial intelligence be trusted?

Today, there are more than six hundred Department of Defense projects that are looking to incorporate artificial intelligence into warfighting. According to Sue Halperin in a recent article in The New Yorker…

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