Humanities

Joyce Studies Annual announces its 2025 special issue, “James Joyce; or, The Imitation Machine,” guest edited by Shinjini Chattopadhyay, publishing February 3, 2026. The journal is now accepting submissions for the 2026 issue. Call for papers deadline: March 1, 2026.

Across the centuries, writers, scholars, and storytellers have preserved and reimagined the histories of slavery and the long fight for freedom. The books below trace the lives of the enslaved and the emancipated, the fugitives and the free, the remembered and the forgotten. Together, they speak to the endurance of Black life and imagination across generations.