Wayne State University Press

A light take on the darkly comic show The Good Place and its lasting impact on American television culture.

An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black miltancy.

Essays mapping the history of relief parcels sent to Jewish prisoners during World War II.

Named a Michigan Notable Book for 2023 by the Library of Michigan! A vibrant collection of essays and poems exploring the diverse range of the Arab American experience, as writers explore the notions of home, belonging, and social mobility.

Translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s stories depicting the tumultuous interwar years in Europe.

Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political era of the Trump presidency.

Provides a history and criticism of an important disrupting force in early science-fiction television programming.

Critically analyzes the discursive relationship between cultural value and popular feminism in American television.

Explores The Americans as a groundbreaking series that brilliantly merged the spy genre and domestic melodrama.