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Wars We Never Fought

A collection of essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot device in popular works of speculative fiction, including novels, films, television, and video …

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Clowns

The third anthology from DOPAMINE Books that considers the many-sided splendor of the clown.A blogging dog sitter cringes out on celebrity, Slinkys, and self-promotion. A poet experiences the clowny vulne…

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Douglas Coupland's Literature and Art

The first collection of scholarly essays about major works across fiction, non-fiction, and visual art by cult writer and artist Douglas Coupland, this book looks at Coupland's work and its interest in to…

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Andrea Long Chu
Authority

Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone's a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize-wi…

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Bill Hardwig
How Cormac Works

"Throughout a career that spanned six decades, Cormac McCarthy produced twelve novels that, while often quite different from one another, show a consistent commitment to formal experimentation motiva…

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Ferdowsi,
Shahnameh

A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh is a classic work by one of Persia's greatest poets. Written more than 1,000 years ago in a series of 50,000 elegant couplets, Ferdowsi's work protected the Pe…

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Chris Pavone
The Doorman

'Sensationally good.' LEE CHILDA pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats .Chicky Diaz is everyone's fav…

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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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Jamaica Kincaid
Putting Myself Together

"A collection of the inimitable writer's essays, stories, and articles from her early days at The Village Voice through her time at The New Yorker "-- Provided by publisher.

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Colm Tóibín
On Elizabeth Bishop

"This book offers the reader a luminous meditation on Elizabeth Bishop's poetry. It focuses, among other things, on the restraint of her style and the power of the unsaid in her work. But more than t…

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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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Joshua Javier Guzmán
Dissatisfactions

How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzmán explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scen…

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The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies' Home Journal to Vogue this diverse collection examines how the nation's First Lady has become an important cultural icon wit…

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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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Amy L Blair
Tasting and Testing Books

"In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newe…

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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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Ira Nadel
The American Sentence

"A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of American letters - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - t…

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John Updike,
Selected Letters of John Updike

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 six decades, from his earliest consciousness as …

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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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