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Poetry

Kingdom of Love

Mann Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9781784108571, Carcanet, September 2019
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"A Kingdom of Love" is a lyrical interrogation of the place of the sacred and profane in a demythologised world from poet and Anglican parish priest, Rachel Mann.

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Literary Criticism

True Stories And Other Essays

Spufford Francis

ISBN: PB: 9780300246667, Yale University Press, September 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relat...

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Poetry

Bitter English

Almallah Ahmad

ISBN: PB: 9780226642642, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Imagine you are a Palestinian who came to America as a young man, eventually finding yourself caught between the country you live in with your wife and daughter, and the home – and parents – you left behind. Imagine living every day in your nonnative...

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Poetry

Cage of Lit Glass

Kell Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781938769399, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The debut poetry collection of Charles Kell, "Cage of Lit Glass" engages themes of death, incarceration, and family through a range of physical, emotional, and philosophical spaces. In startling images of beauty and violence, Kell creates a haunting...

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Poetry

Epithalamia

Batykefer Erinn

ISBN: PB: 9781938769436, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
40 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Inhabiting the claustrophobia of marriage and domestic life, Erinn Batykefer's poems use the deeply personal as the lens through which she investigates larger cultural ideas. She reckons with feeling simultaneously large and small, finding ways to fa...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth

Stern Josef, Robinson James T., Shemesh Yonatan

ISBN: HB: 9780226457635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables

Moses Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed" is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation – i...

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Political Science

Literary Criticism

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Kennedy Liam, Shapiro Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781512603613, ISBN: HB: 9781512603606, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
252 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. "Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature" is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dom...

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Fiction

Not Dead Yet and Other Stories

Moore Hadley

ISBN: PB: 9781938769412, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
216 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm

"Not Dead Yet" studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent. Rich in humor and honesty, Hadley Moore's debut collection of short stories presents a contemporary set of narra...

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Literary Criticism

On Interpretive Conflict

Frow John

ISBN: PB: 9780226614007, ISBN: HB: 9780226613956, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 line drawings

"Interpretation" is a term that encompasses both the most esoteric and the most fundamental activities of our lives, from analyzing medical images to the million ways we perceive other people's actions. Today, we also leave interpretation to the like...

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Literary Criticism

Other Presences Reading Literature Other-Wise after the Transnational Turn in American Studies

Tatschner Florian

ISBN: PB: 9781512603576, ISBN: HB: 9781512603484, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
376 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

"The Other Presences" presents a radically new mode of engaging with the idea of otherness in contemporary American literature. Expanding on the earlier theories of poststructuralist and phenomenologist philosophers like Berhand Waldenfels and Jean-F...

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