The Chicago Blog

The University of Chicago Press invites everyone to celebrate Pride with a reading list of recent and forthcoming books from Chicago and our client publishers that help illuminate LGBTQIA2S+ lives. From political histories to original poetry collections and novels, art criticism, studies of queer representation in media, biographies of queer luminaries, and crucial reads ...

In Empire’s Companion: Virgilian Epics from Colonial Iberoamerica, Erika Valdivieso offers a study of how Latin poetry shaped colonial aspirations in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century South and Central America. We sat down to ask her some ...

Despite epidemic levels of overdoses in the United States, by 2020, only twenty percent of Americans suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) received medication-assisted treatment (MAT), the gold standard of addiction treatment, which uses methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone to reduce illicit drug use and curb the symptoms of withdrawal. While MAT is the most effecti...

The US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy countries support broader fertility interventions under the banner of “family planning,” the United States remains committed only to helping Americans—and especially poorer Americans—plan not to have a family.