The characters in Mirja Unge's debut collection are all, in their own way, evading something; whether failing to confront the true nature of an encounter, or avoiding responsibilities as a parent, sibling or friend. Abuse, betrayal and neglect lurk b...

Will Eaves' first book of poems explores several continents, moods and stages of life. Common experience – of growing up, growing older, losing a parent, being in love, enjoying the natural world in all its nearness and remoteness – provides his them...

"What I know about is absence; the endless geography of yearning..." For Nedim Gursel, the state of exile isn't a static condition, applying to a single person in a specific place, but an entire landscape of longing, through which he, and countless...

"Not Many Love Poems" tells the stories of a life, the stories kept close to the heart: long friendships and shorter love affairs, close bonds of family scattered across transatlantic distances, passion and loss. Loved friends and family, the living,...

The men in Emil Hakl's fiction are, like the title of one story, oddballs. Whether evading the expectations of adult life, or finding themselves drawn to characters they're simultaneously repulsed by, each one holds a mirror up to the peculiar failin...

This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writi...

Martha Gellhorn was one of the first – and most widely read – female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she wa...

The long-awaited second volume of the newly revived "Ice Floe" series, "Ice Floe II" features new and exciting works of poetry from a vibrant and diverse group of writers from Alaska, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Iceland, and beyond. All work is presented...

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic".Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The essay on Botticelli traces the arti...

"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric".The Conflagration of Community" challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extrem...