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Sarah D Phillips,
Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary con…

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Chris Pavone
The Doorman

'Sensationally good.' LEE CHILD 'The kind of novel that wins book awards.' STEPHEN KINGA pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights…

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African Literature in Transition

This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. Bringing together new scholarship on textual production in A…

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Jamaica Kincaid
Putting Myself Together

My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.This collection of Jamaic…

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David Mence
Melville's Maritime Politics

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and …

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James Peacock,
Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction

Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia. Litera…

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Jeremy Rosen
Genre Bending

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular…

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We Are Nature Defending Itself

In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is "a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging w…

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Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time

This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historic…

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Stacey Margolis
Future Is Fiction

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational jus…

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Susan Farrell
Vonnegut's War

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Fiveis widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the twentieth century. Fusing vivid biography with …

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Katie Mitchell
Prose to the People

A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an o…

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Amaris Castillo
Bodega Stories

A window into a Dominican family's bodega and the community at its heartA bodega is much more than a neighborhood grocery store---it's a lifeline to community and culture. In Bodega Stories, Amaris Castil…

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Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time

This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historic…

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Marcia Douglas
The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive

Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive , which continues Marcia Douglas' &qu…

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Flora Sussekind,
Choruses and Counter-Choruses

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these wer…

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John Updike,
Selected Letters of John Updike

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWEDITORS' CHOICE • The arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers---a remarkable outpouring over …

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Flora Sussekind,
Choruses and Counter-Choruses

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these wer…

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Alicia Upano
Everything to the Sea

Part riveting love story, part coming-of-age tale, Everything to the Sea is a breathtaking debut novel spanning years and shores after a sudden tsunami devastates the island of Hawai'i and cuts short a yo…

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Maria Lujan Medina
Irish Narratives in Argentina

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

This monograph examines Irish narratives produced in Argentina between 1900 and 1994, bringing critical attention to literary texts written from peripheral and often overlooked cultural spaces. Focusing o…

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