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Fiction

During-the-Event

Wall Roger

ISBN: PB: 9781602233829, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For D. E., only two certainties exist: his grandfather is dead and life will never be the same".During-the-Event" is a dystopian adventure that roams across a fallen United States, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters along the way. In the...

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Poetry

Discipline

Yeh Jane

ISBN: PB: 9781784107079, Carcanet, March 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

In "Discipline", her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as p...

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Literary Criticism

Distant Horizons Digital Evidence and Literary Change

Underwood Ted

ISBN: PB: 9780226612836, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 24 halftones, 4 tables

Just as a traveler crossing a continent won't sense the curvature of the earth, one lifetime of reading can't grasp the largest patterns organizing literary history. This is the guiding premise behind "Distant Horizons", which uses the scope of data...

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Fiction

The French List

Dancing Other

Dracius Suzanne

ISBN: HB: 9780857424792, Seagull Books, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Dancing Other" takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in either. Suzanne Dracius tells the story of Rehvana, a woman who feels she is too black to fit in when...

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Poetry

Dictator

Terry Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781784106188, Carcanet, October 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Dictator" recreates "Gilgamesh" using the 1500 word vocabulary of Globish (from the words "global" and "English") put together by Jean-Paul Nerriere. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to r...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Charles Dickens A Year of Quotes

Dickens Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226563749, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, "The Daily Charles Dickens" is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved n...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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Fiction

Desirable Body

Haddad Hubert, Waters Alyson

ISBN: PB: 9780300224368, Yale University Press, August 2018
232 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

A contemporary "Frankenstein" that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel, couched in luminous, captivating prose about a journalist, Cedric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidat...

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Poetry

Desolate Market

Turner Julian

ISBN: PB: 9781784105129, Carcanet, July 2018
64 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm

A fourth collection by a Cheshire-born, Yorkshire resident poet who combines poetic skill, deep thought and feeling in poetry that grows out of his social work and his sense of a self-impoverishing world.

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Poetry

Dear Pilgrims

Deane John F.

ISBN: PB: 9781784105860, Carcanet, June 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

John F. Deane's poetry of Christian belief in a decisively secular age explores how redemption and renewal might emerge. He writes in the sincere, troubled, wide-awake tradition of Gerard Manley Hopkins and R. S. Thomas. Like theirs, his concerns are...

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