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Literary Criticism

Existentialism, 70 Years After Yale French Studies, Number 135/136

Du Graf Lauren, Elsky Julia, Faure Clementine

ISBN: PB: 9780300242669, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In 1948, Yale French Studies devoted its inaugural issue to existentialism. This anniversary issue responds seventy years later. In recent years, new critical and theoretical approaches have reconfigured existentialism and refreshed perspectives on t...

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Poetry

The German List

etudes

Mayrocker Friederike

ISBN: HB: 9780857426567, Seagull Books, February 2020
208 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm

Exploring longing, lust for life, ageing, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest living Austrian poets. Friederike Mayrocker's almost daily entries give us a unique...

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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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Poetry

English Anthology

Nolens Leonard

ISBN: PB: 9781784105747, Carcanet, November 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

I was born in Belgium, I'm Belgian. / But Belgium was never born in me.' So writes Leonard Nolens in 'Place and Date', which captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a generation of Dutch-speaking Belgians. And throughout this sel...

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Fiction

Empty Room

Abbas Sadia

ISBN: HB: 9789385932267, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In 1960s Karachi, a place of ever increasing violence and political and social uncertainty, a beautiful and talented artist, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a sham, a trap from...

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Fiction

Edgar Allan Poe: Illustrated Tales Illustrated Classic Editions

Poe Edgar Allan

ISBN: HB: 9781435166882, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illus.

Poe is well known for his poetry and short stories, especially his tales of mystery and the macabre. This is a collection of his best tales.

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Poetry

Errant

Levin Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781784106348, Carcanet, August 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Errant" is Israeli poet Gabriel Levin's sixth collection. It is a book of riddles by an imagination whose fate is that of the wanderer who keeps waking up and watching the dream vanish just before he can quite grasp it.

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Literary Criticism

Linguistics

Enumerations Data and Literary Study

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226568751, ISBN: HB: 9780226568614, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 line drawings, 26 tables

For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data – or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments...

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Fiction

The German List

Eulogy for the Living Taking Flight

Wolf Christa

ISBN: HB: 9780857425546, Seagull Books, July 2018
136 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book "Patterns of Childhood", she explained why it was so difficult: "Gradually, over a period of months, the dilemma has emerged: to remain speechle...

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Poetry

Everything I Kept Todo Lo Que Guarde

Behar Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780997228724, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, May 2018
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, language: English / Spanish, 10 halftones

Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we...

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