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Michael Young recently published an article in The Quarterly Journal of Speech titled “Towards a Rhetorical Theory of Charisma: Corinthians, Cults, and Demagogic Criticism.”

Ellen Skirvin co-edited This Book is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes From the Appalachian Prison Book Project.

Debbie Hawhee has won a well-deserved honor: she has been named by the American Society for the History of Rhetoric as the recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Mentor Award.

John Marsh’s “A Rotten Crowd”: America, Wealth, and 100 Years of The Great Gatsby was released on November 13th.

“A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appaliachia” has been published.

The eighteenth book in The Complete Letters of Henry James, volume one of the letters from 1888-1891, has received the seal of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions.

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s novel The Road to the Salt Sea continues to accrue accolades from all quarters—this time, it has been longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Prize, awarded by the Aspen Institute.

The Hemingway Letters Project won its seventh award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Oliver Baker’s first book, No More Peace: Abolition War and Counterrevolution, will be published in February 2025 by the University of California Press.

Verna Kale has published a timely piece on Hemingway’s searing response to the 1935 Labor Day hurricane in Key West that killed over 400 people, most of them veterans.