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10/12/2026

In her new book "Content Machines" Sarah Brouillette examines how platform capitalism and social media writing has reshaped modern publishing, reading, and writing. Read a Q&A with her on the blog today.
https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/qa-with-sarah-brouillette-author-of-content-machines/

10/10/2026

The Weekly Read is “Muñoz and the Mystical Tradition: A Primer on Cruising the Past” by Kris Trujillo. The article appears in Cruising the Past, a special issue of GLQ (32:4) edited by Adrián Emmanuel Hernández-Acosta and Kris Trujillo.

Read this article for free through December 31st: https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article/32/4/483/412977/Munoz-and-the-Mystical-TraditionA-Primer-on

Buy this issue and use code SAVE30 for a 30% discount: https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruising-the-past

10/08/2026

We're celebrating our Centennial all year, and with a big campus event today. Our director Dean J. Smith reflects on our history and our future in an essay in The Scholarly Kitchen.

As Duke University Press celebrates its 100th year, we take some time to reflect on our history and the important role played by university presses.

10/08/2026

We are sorry to learn of the passing of James T. Siegel, author of "A New Criminal Type in Jakarta" (1998).

Remembering SEAP Emeritus Professor James T. Siegel (1937-2026): It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that Jim Siegel has died.

Since his retirement in 2007, he and his wife Anne Berger (pictured here at a SEAP reception) were based in Paris. The October 2024 edition of the Indonesia Journal was a special issue in Jim's honor (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53803) and a write up about it appeared in the SEAP bulletin that year: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A_IyDPQ5f5IZ7dvKRAMGTgiFAR6Kw0tB/view?usp=sharing
We miss you Jim!

10/07/2026

We're joining you in Toronto for ! On the blog today, we've got everything you need to know about our presence and our conference savings. https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/save-on-new-titles-in-science-studies-3/

10/03/2026

The Weekly Read is "Transpacific Nonencounters" by Andrea Mendoza, which traces the histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan.

The book is available to read for free thanks to support from the University of California libraries: https://buff.ly/98TESDX

10/02/2026

“Miracle Road” by Allen Paul and Mack Paul is a comprehensive account of the origins and rise of Research Triangle Park, which has transformed one of the poorest states in the nation into an economic powerhouse, detailing a fascinating and important case study of urban development in the twenty-first century. You can catch Mack Paul at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh on October 7. Pick up a copy there or on our website!

10/01/2026

We have a great crop of new books in October. Check them out!
https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/new-books-in-october-12/

09/30/2026

Our authors have in-person and online events around the US and in Canada and Switzerland this October. Hope you can make it to some!
https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/author-events-in-october-10/

09/29/2026

by Danilyn Rutherford