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Philosophy

Animal Claim Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice

Menely Tobias

ISBN: PB: 9780226239392, ISBN: HB: 9780226239255, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws...

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Fiction

The French List

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Noiville Florence

ISBN: HB: 9780857422330, Seagull Books, April 2015
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

When Anna discovers a long letter that her mother Marie wrote, Marie has been dead for some time, and Anna is shocked to learn that her mother disappeared with a secret. The letter is addressed to Marie's first great love, a much older teacher who sh...

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Poetry

Anyone

Klug Nate

ISBN: PB: 9780226196954, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
64 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

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...

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Fiction

Afternoon Men A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226186894, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange dri...

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Poetry

Aviary of Small Birds

McCarthy Woolf Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781906188146, Carcanet, October 2014
88 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"An Aviary of Small Birds" is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. Here, birth paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after long labour, the baby's heart gives out. Howeve...

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Poetry

Alliance and Condemnation / Alianza y Condena

Rodriguez Claudio

ISBN: PB: 9780983322023, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, October 2014
180 pp., 20.3x13 cm

A splash of sea foam. A sly sparrow. A man dodging the rain. From such mundane, unexpected moments, Spanish poet Claudio Rodriguez crafted his 1965 "Alliance and Condemnation", a collection of poems that temper the joy of existence – the "bounty that...

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Fiction

The German List

Air Raid

Kluge Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780857420794, Seagull Books, October 2014
144 pp., 25x15 cm, 37 halftones

On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was too late to turn back, the assembled ordnance of more than two hundred bombers was diverted to near...

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Poetry

After Lermontov Translations for the Bicentenary

France Peter, Marsack Robyn

ISBN: PB: 9781847772756, Carcanet, April 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is best known in the West today as the author of the novel "A Hero of Our Time". But at the time of his death, aged only 26, he was widely regarded as Russia's greatest living poet. He achieved almost instant fame in 183...

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Fiction

Agents and Patients A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226137353, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Ferrari Gloria

ISBN: PB: 9780226668680, ISBN: HB: 9780226668673, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 2 halftones

The "Partheneion", or "maiden song", composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. A provocative reinterpretation of the "Partheneion" and its broader context, "Alcman and the C...

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