Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

This Element reconsiders the historical, theoretical, racial, disability, and editorial problem of genealogy by...  Read More >>

Stand-up comedy, a celebrity non-apology, observations of racism, and the slipperiness of nostalgia underpin Replica....  Read More >>

“There is no version of this wherein I am given the time machine and do not destroy it,” writes Siew Hii in this...  Read More >>

It is rare to find a collection so grounded in the manifold meanings of motherhood—in all its anxiety, ambivalence,...  Read More >>

My father’s heart, and my mother’s, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They...  Read More >>

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

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Everything Is Water is an open letter to caregivers as the speaker grapples with her partner's life-threatening...  Read More >>

In Through the Lens, Caridad Moro-Gronlier redefines ekphrasis for a visually saturated world, expanding her poetic...  Read More >>

Informed by oral poetics, performance theory, and memory studies, Through the Looking Glass approaches Anarkali—the...  Read More >>

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

First time in paper, these essays are an extension of the author's previous books Mayordomo and A Garlic Testament....  Read More >>

Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt....  Read More >>

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 >>

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

Holy the Body wrestles with ghosts and shadows, discovers Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun in Nashville, Tennessee,...  Read More >>

Finalist, 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Following in the footsteps of poets like Hanif Abdurraqib, John Murillo,...  Read More >>

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

Insightful musings on the global connections between humans and nature  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 >>

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