At Johns Hopkins University Press, we envision a future where knowledge enriches the life of every person. Home to @projectmuse.bsky.social press.jhu.eduhttps://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.social/post/3mqpe7bds7u2hHershel Parker, a “Melville scholar of Ahab-like obsessiveness,” has died. His magisterial “Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1” was a 1997 Pulitzer Prize finalist and was published with great fanfare—but also controversy. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/books/hershel-parker-dead.html15 Jul 2026 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpe7bds7u2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.social/post/3mqosu7xfub2oToday on the Newsroom Blog, Callaloo editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres offers a timely reminder of the riches within the work of bell hooks Read her entry, along with a selected reading list from Hopkins Press journals and elsewhere: tiny.one/4e98jz4m15 Jul 2026 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqosu7xfub2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.social/post/3mqmuyxvs572yFor decades, sleep researchers have reached the same conclusion: teenagers need more sleep. "Educating the Exhausted" examines the history of adolescent sleep research alongside decades of efforts to translate that research into meaningful educational policy. https://tr.ee/GqeqH314 Jul 2026 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmuyxvs572yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.social/post/3mqmtmucuri2yNEW ISSUE OUT NOW New Literary History 57.1, Winter 2026 tiny.one/2p948z5e CONTRIBUTORS Joshua Barnes Sara Crangle Philip Dickinson Graham Huggan Matthew Levay Carmen Faye Mathes Jahan Ramazani Matthew Sussman14 Jul 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmtmucuri2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.social/post/3mqmd7w4dyy2cNEW ISSUE OUT NOW Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 27.1, Spring 2026 #S2O #OpenAccess @ProjectMUSE tiny.one/23uy9xn8   CONTRIBUTORS D.A. Dunkley Jason Dyck Jasmin Habib Amir Locker-Biletzki Hashim bin Rashid Vempalli Raj Mahammadh Philip Post Oyiza Rhoda Adinoyi and more 14 Jul 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmd7w4dyy2chttps://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.social/post/3mqmcupngaq24NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Dickens Quarterly 43.2, June 2026 tiny.one/ycy8tar2 CONTRIBUTORS Christian Lehmann Magdalena Pypeć Adrianne Wojcik Renata Goroshkova Lydia Craig Ushashi Dasgupta John M. L. Drew Leslie S. Simon Dominic Rainsford14 Jul 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmcupngaq24https://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.social/post/3mqmciglaf32hNEW ISSUE OUT NOW Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 15.1, Spring 2026 Special Issue: Race and Identity in Later Medieval Western Europe Guest Editor: Sarah Ifft Decker #S2O #OpenAccess @ProjectMUSE tiny.one/bdf8fe6b CONTRIBUTORS Ariana Natalie Myers Kimberly Lifton and more14 Jul 2026 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmciglaf32hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.social/post/3mqmc5bxkml2n"I believe that heroes are essential for our own development" ICYMI #LitFriday, we discovered two essays from legendary author Madeline L'Engle, both free to read at Project MUSE thru 31 July First, a meditation on heroic figures in The Lion & the Unicorn: tiny.one/y2786e4k14 Jul 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmc5bxkml2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/hopkinspress.bsky.social/post/3mqkdqfxrvt2dCritics panned Whistler's "Nocturne in Black and Gold" but his vibrant fireworks depicted important innovations in the pyrotechnical arts Read Laura Anne Kalba's "Fireworks and Other Profane Illuminations" in @MModernity, free thru 31 July: tiny.one/2p97uz4a13 Jul 2026 18:40 +0000at://did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqkdqfxrvt2d