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Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico investigates how Nahuas conceptualized their futures in the early colonial period. Scholar Ezekiel G. Stear delves deeply into canonical texts such as the Florentine Codex and the Crónica mexicayotl as well as understudied texts such as the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, the Tira de Tepechpan, and the Anales de Juan Bautista. The study does more than describe how Nahuas conceived of their own futures: it also shows their specific plans for moving into the coming years.

The book examines how Nahua writers in Central Mexico and other Mesoamerican voices in colonial Spanish America played an active, decisive role in shaping culture, using writing to persuade their communities to mold their own destinies, even amid colonial upheaval. This work opens up new directions for research and teaching, shifting inquiry from how Nahuas preserved cultural continuity to how they envisioned their roles as pathfinders toward times to come.

Nahua Horizons challenges the notion that the Spanish erased Nahua culture. The book emphasizes the ways people kept sovereignty over the futures they envisioned for themselves and their communities. Stear’s bold new approach follows the paths that Nahuas forged ahead into unknown times.

A traveler and translator explores the multiethnic cultures, histories, and landscapes of Norway's high north

A companionable travel memoir about Arctic Norway, North Coast of the North details Barbara Sjoholm’s trip in the summer of 2024 to the northernmost region of the Scandinavian peninsula, a borderland that is home to a richly multicultural society, an expanding tourist industry, and landscapes bearing the marks of colonization, environmental damage, and climate change. A writer with decades of experience in the Nordic countries, Sjoholm flew from her home in the Pacific Northwest to Norway’s high north to research a collection of Sámi folktales and witness firsthand the settings from which the stories emerged.

Sjoholm’s journey takes her from Kirkenes, the final port on the Hurtigruten coastal route and an outpost on the Russian border, to the fertile farmlands of the Pasvik River Valley and to Indigenous archaeological sites and historic trading posts around the Varangerfjord. She voyages west along the Barents Sea coastline and south to Tromsø, past islands and inlets of surpassing beauty (as well as liquid gas plants and wind farms), and writes about the ongoing resource exploitation and local resistance to Norwegian and global corporate interests. North Coast of the North intertwines Sjoholm’s observations on the tragedies of World War II and the literature and folklore of the Sámi with her own warm memories of Norway, a country that never ceases to intrigue her.

An absorbing and expansive blend of travel writing, memoir, and reflections on translation, history, and literature, North Coast of the North is a vivid look at an often exoticized, frequently overlooked, yet increasingly important environmental and geopolitical region of Northern Europe.

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