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As citizens continue to evolve and diversify within the United States, the ingredients that make up each flavorful household are waiting to be discovered and devoured. In Colorful Palate, author Raj Tawney shares his coming-of-age memoir as a young man born into an Indian, Puerto Rican, and Italian-American family, his struggles with understanding his own identity, and the mouthwatering flavors of the melting pot from within his own childhood kitchen.
Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret these events.
Traversing expansive chronological and spatial terrains, from the garden city movement in the British Empire to development in the Brexit era, Vijay’s Topothesia creatively bridges the domains of literature and urban planning. This ambitious and provocative study argues that urban planning is a form of “speculative fiction… compelled to produce elaborate fantasies of future places.” With the literary device of topothesia, or the vivid description of an imaginary place, as its theoretical anchor, the book reveals how city planning leveraged literary aesthetics to manage and discipline people and spaces perceived as “in excess” of proper modernity – and how new counter-imaginaries emerged, in turn.
Honorable Mention, 2025 MELA Awards
Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the death of King Hassan II in 1999—to examine the transformative roles memory and trauma play in reconstructing stories of three historically marginalized groups in Moroccan history: Berbers/Imazighen, Jews, and political prisoners.
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