New This Week: January 14th

Publishing this week we have a new book in our LatinX Histories series that traces how our dual appetite for Latinx food and Latinx food labor has evolved from the World War II era to the COVID-19 pandemic, a biography of Violeta Parra — a Chilean musician and artist that was the first Latin American to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in the Louvre, and a book that looks at America’s war on aging from the founding period to our present moment. Plus, If you want to see everything new this month, head to our Hot Off the Press page plus you can browse our new Spring/Summer 2025 catalog to see books publishing from February-July.

No Country for Old Age: America’s War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley by Mischa Honeck

“An insightful and readable history of rejuvenation as a medical practice and cultural concept that pushes analytical boundaries to show how age functions as a vector of power. Original and new in its scope and method, Honeck’s work gives us a global and intersectional analysis of rejuvenation available nowhere else.”—Corinne T. Field, University of Virginia

“Mischa Honeck’s No Country for Old Age is meticulously researched, a compelling read, and an important contribution to our understanding of the politics of aging in American culture. Honeck’s sophisticated use of age and aging as historical analytics allows us to rethink the past and future of our bodies, the technologies that maintain and modify them, the social meanings they bear, and the political work they do.”—Gabriel Rosenberg, Duke University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 by Lori A. Flores

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“Exciting and well-conceived, this rich and skillful narrative is sure to become a foundational text in the field. Truly, there is nothing comparable—an innovative exploration at the intersection between food, labor, and Latinx history. Stunning!”—Llana Barber, author of Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000

“Lori Flores is one of the most perceptive writers about migration and the migrants who do the work that gets food into our kitchens and bodies. In Awaiting Their Feast she brings to light how migrants eat and produce food at the same time, which becomes the key to understanding their impact on this country’s national cuisine. Consumers who value the pleasure we get from eating should afford workers the same, knowing that this means seeing more clearly who they are and what they fight for. This book opens the door to that understanding.”—David Bacon, author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra by Ericka Kim Verba

“A stunning achievement. This comprehensive analysis of Parra’s life provides an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate one of Latin America’s greatest artists. Thanks to Life is an outstanding piece of biographical work on a world-class artist whose legacy continues to shape Latin American music and culture.”—Heidi Tinsman, author of Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States 

“Finally, a definitive biography of one of the most consequential global artists of the twentieth century.”—Karin Rosemblatt, author of The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950