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Fiction

My Papa and the Maid of Orleans and Other Grotesques

Mynona

ISBN: PB: 9781939663276, DAP, Wakefield Press, August 2017
96 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! Mynona's other 1921 collection of grotesques is no less provocative and just as indefinable in nature – even close to a century after its original publication. These twelve off-kilter parabolic tales include items such as "...

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Fiction

Blameless

Magris Claudio, Appel Anne Milano

ISBN: HB: 9780300218480, Yale University Press, June 2017
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

From one of Europe's most revered authors, a tale of one man's obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity's darkest atrocities in order to oppose them. Claudio Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human...

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Poetry

Seasonal Disturbances

McCarthy Woolf Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781784103361, Carcanet, June 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut "An Aviary of Small Birds" ("technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak" – Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances. Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence,...

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Poetry

Simulacra

Matthews Airea D., Phillips Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780300223965, ISBN: HB: 9780300223972, Yale University Press, May 2017
104 pp., 19x15.2 cm

A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and...

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Poetry

On Balance

Morrissey Sinead

ISBN: PB: 9781784103606, Carcanet, May 2017
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Teetering on the brink of various crises, Sinead Morrissey's poems consider spectacular feats of human engineering – ships, planes, robots – from our radically unstable perspective, struggling for poise. Poems become pliable; the dead speak.

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Fiction

River Runs through It and Other Stories

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226472065, ISBN: HB: 9780226475592, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of "A River Runs through It and Other Stories" to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it". Forty years later, the title novella is rec...

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Fiction

Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226450353, ISBN: HB: 9780226475455, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, "Young Men and Fire" describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fir...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

In the Skin of a Beast Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France

McCracken Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226458922, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet – whether as friends or foes – issues of mastery and submission are often at stake".In the Skin of a Beast" shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting lar...

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Literary Criticism

Revolution of the Ordinary Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

Moi Toril

ISBN: PB: 9780226464442, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy – a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell – to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Mo...

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Literary Criticism

History

Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature

Morgan Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...

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