Ashgate Publishing Ltd. has just released The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City, a volume edited by Dr. Edward Murphy and a colleague in the Department of Anthropology at MSU, Dr. Najib Hourani. In addition to his editing responsibilities, Dr. Murphy wrote the book’s introduction and a chapter contribution. Among the twelve authors in the volume, Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum of the Department of History contributed a chapter on the problematic forms of housing that workers occupied in an automobile factory city in the Soviet Union. For further information on the book, see http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472407887.