Literature: history & criticism books

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises:...  Read More >>

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Ellen McLarney explores how writers in the Black Arts Movement identified with Islam as integral to the African...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

Julien Columeau examines three movements for the defense and promotion of Punjabi formed between 1947 and 1960,...  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

""The Story of the Peony Lantern"" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and...  Read More >>

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing Paper Heroines studies the...  Read More >>

When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite...  Read More >>

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Vocabulario y enseñanza del español delves into the nature and acquisition of vocabulary, its relevance to linguistic...  Read More >>

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises:...  Read More >>

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Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

Examines US-Mexico borderland representations in horror films, TV series and comics.  Read More >>