"We're living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I'm not altogether sure you're fully attuned to it". So says Irish-American politician Frank Skeffington – a cynical, corrupt 1950s mayor, and also an old-school gentleman who looks after the constituents o...

Long before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O'...

Not for sale in Estonia! Hiroshi Kono is eight years old and only just beginning to question the racial and economic inequities he sees around him, when he and his family – along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans – are packed off to a concentra...

After the completion of "Dear Life", his highly praised ninth collection of poems, Dennis O'Driscoll kept his finished poems in a computer file called "Newest Poems", subtitled "Since completion of Dear Life" and "April 2011-". This book reproduces i...

"Dear Life" was Dennis O'Driscoll's ninth book of poetry. Like his earlier work, it engages with contemporary issues – the internet era, the compensation culture, global warming – as well as providing fresh perspectives on the timeless topics of work...

In 2007 Mary O'Malley made a voyage on the Irish marine research ship the Celtic Explorer. It took her far out into the Atlantic, and it returned her to a self and a country made strange. "Valparaiso", a collection begun at sea, is a book of searches...

Shortly after the debut of "Exorcism" in 1920, Eugene O'Neill suddenly canceled production and ordered all extant copies of the drama destroyed. For over ninety years, it was believed that the play was irrevocably lost, until it was recently discover...

A parable rich in imagery and meaning, "The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar" provides readers of all ages with profound insights into the nature of authority, power, and freedom. The tale begins when a polar bear named Balthazar is captured by hun...

"The Baboons of Hada" introduces thirty years of Eric Ormsby's precise and generous poetry. Opening with an exuberant bestiary of spiders and starfish, penguins, snakes and contemplative baboons, the collection moves on to explore a world of intricat...

The naturalist Gilbert White is at the heart of this collection. Like him, Jeremy Over explores an ecology with meticulous acuity. His poems are "found in the field": the beauty and oddity of the language of others is brought into sharp focus. Robe...