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News and Notes Annette Lanjouw, co-author of Mountain Gorillas: Biology, Conservation, and Coexistence, was interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday during the SciFri Book Club about Dian Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist. Daniel Webster, co-editor of Reducing Gun Violence in American: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis, was interviewed on Annapolis radio station WRNR 103.1. Hot…

During the Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference earlier this month, we challenged our JHU Press authors to write on the theme “Kill your darlings.” We asked: What poem, line, stanza, or piece of brilliant work have you sacrificed for the greater good? Has this piece or well-turned phrase found its way into…

guest post by Robert T. Maupin, Jr. This past week has born witness to reports of a groundbreaking medical breakthrough in HIV treatment resulting in the reported “cure” of an infant believed to have a pregnancy-acquired early HIV infection. The infant described in the New York Times report was born to a mother who was…

The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. guest post by Kay Harris Kriegsman and Sara Palmer “Being a parent has given me more to live for, more to appreciate about life. I look at the world with a sense of…

The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. guest post by Kay Harris Kriegsman and Sara Palmer “Being a parent has given me more to live for, more to appreciate about life. I look at the world with a sense of…

By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor All too often people take a perfectly good idea and then use it for all sorts of occasions for which it doesn't apply. One example is having a right lane for slow drivers and a left one for fast drivers. This works well—most of the time—on the highway. But then…

With the Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference underway, we challenged our JHU Press authors to write on the theme “Kill your darlings.” We asked: What poem, line, stanza, or piece of brilliant work have you sacrificed for the greater good? Has this piece or well-turned phrase found its way into another poem, short story,…

With the Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference underway, we challenged our JHU Press authors to write on the theme “Kill your darlings.” We asked: What poem, line, stanza, or piece of brilliant work have you sacrificed for the greater good? Has this piece or well-turned phrase found its way into another poem,…

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. Guest post by John M. Lawrence Starfish are icons of the sea. Among the most fascinating animals in the world’s oceans, they are one of the classes…

Chapter and Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. guest post by David F. Elmer When I first had the idea for my new book, The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the…