This collection of deeply felt and powerfully moving Haitian poetry dating back to the first decades of the Caribbean island's independence from French colonial rule sheds a much needed light on an important and often neglected period in Haiti's lite...

In this collection of short stories, Avinuo Kire tells powerful tales of women overcoming violence and repression. In "The Power to Forgive", many of the stories are told against the backdrop of the struggle for Nagaland's independence from India. Ye...

A lone hunter, Vilie, sets out to find the river of his dreams, a place from which he will be able to wrest a stone that will give him untold power. His is a dangerous quest – not only must he overcome unquiet spirits, vengeful sorceresses, and demon...

There is a triumphant and satisfying feeling the first time one returns to a once-unfamiliar place and finally feels like it is home. When strangeness is shed and familiar patterns emerge, there is a deep sense of comfort that is the reward for those...

In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men", th...

Milton's God Where I-95 meets The Pike, a ponderous thunderhead flowered – stewed a minute, then flipped like a flash card, tattered edges crinkling in, linings so dark with excessive bright that, standing, waiting, at the overpass edge, the onl...

Kohima, 2007. A young man has just been gunned down in cold blood – the latest casualty in the conflict that has brutalized the people of Nagaland, in the neglected northeastern corner of India. Rich in culture and history, "Bitter Wormwood" traces t...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Rhetoric in European and World Culture" traces the position of rhetoric in cultural and educational systems from ancient times to the present. Here, Jiri Kraus examines rhetoric's decline...

Michael Kruger is a major figure in modern German poetry, one of its great editors and leading practitioners. In 1993 Carcanet published "Diderot's Cat", Michael Kruger's original "Selected Poems", which drew on thirteen collections. This new edition...

A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Leo Tolstoy's controversial novella, "The Kreutzer Sonata", which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the fi...