The Spring 2026 JAF: A Global Quarterly includes essays proposing an “ethnography of singing” and new classifications for Persian folk poetry, Perspectives on Crisis and Action Part II, and obituaries and reviews of recent work in the field.
Recent Releases
Only Girls Bleed (Legend Times Publishing), a debut novel by AFS Past President Elaine Lawless, will be released this June and September. A special session about this book is planned for the 2026 AFS Annual Meeting.
The latest issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (JFR) has been released.
Sweet, Tart, and Golden (University of Illinois Press) blends food history with on-the-ground exploration to tell the multifaceted story of the apple.
Menachem Kipnis was a Jewish eastern European ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and photographer. This book brings his photographs and stories into dialogue with one another, bridging the Jewish communities in Poland and in America during the interwar period.
In Heroes of the Gael (Princeton University Press), Natasha Sumner traces the evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song over 1,400 years.
The latest volume of TFH: The Journal of History and Folklore published by the History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society has been released. The volume is devoted to a 40-year index of the journal covering its run since being launched in 1983.
Literary scholar and author Jack Zipes publishes Alex in the Land of Liars (Vanguard Press), a modern political fairy tale intended for young adults.
The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore (University of Exeter Press) is the first multi-author volume dedicated to changelings and the most comprehensive study of these beliefs across West Eurasia and the Mediterranean.
Make/Unmake (Open Book Publishers) captures the voices of playworkers, teachers, and artists and documents the ingenuity of children turning objects into tools of imagination and change. The book is freely available to read and download in both PDF and HTML formats.