Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

What was the role of insects in defining the human during the British eighteenth century? Through close ecocritical...  Read More >>

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

An accurate and poetic translation of Paul Claudel’s Cinq Grandes Odes (1907), with detailed commentary introducing...  Read More >>

This second edition of Palestinian Activism in Israel deepens the exploration of Bedouin women’s leadership in the...  Read More >>

Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its...  Read More >>

Five More Questions is a poetry book about starting over, meeting new people, and growing up. This book is about...  Read More >>

An urgent interrogation of an eroding norm Amidst unprecedented turmoil in American Democracy – as norms of conduct...  Read More >>

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Books for Development analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development...  Read More >>

A landmark translation of the timeless classic of Daoist wisdom, rendered in gorgeous poetry that illuminates its...  Read More >>

Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences...  Read More >>

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to...  Read More >>

To Continue On, We Must RemainHumanity can be beautiful and resilient, but it can also be violent and cruel. In...  Read More >>

In a gripping tale of courage and resilience, an American joins forces with a diverse band of Ukrainians, navigating...  Read More >>

After dropping out of high school and getting kicked out of the house, a disenfranchised teen moves in with Gina,...  Read More >>

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Anna Ziegler's remarkable new play: an introduction to another world where ghosts and dreams are as real as anything...  Read More >>

A poetic journey through life. Immersing the self in nature, trials-tribulations, love, the beautiful ordinary and...  Read More >>

The second volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American...  Read More >>

The first volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American...  Read More >>

Inspired by the true story of Katie Stagliano, her forty-pound cabbage and the nonprofit Katie’s Krops  Read More >>

The latest volume in Fantagraphics' Lost Marvels series, collecting all eight issues of the long-out-of-print, tough-minded...  Read More >>

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

“A powerful debut, populated with lovers and painters and musicians and poets, all of it unified by D.S. Waldman’s...  Read More >>