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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare Dwelling Designs for the Theater of Life

Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226540917, ISBN: HB: 9780226266015, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters – these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard...

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Akhtar Shaheen

ISBN: HB: 9789385932298, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
360 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Twenty-five long years after the war that was supposed to liberate Bangladesh – and that instead, for far too many people, merely brought fear, violence, and loss – a young researcher arrives on the doorstep of one survivor in Dhaka, Mariam, armed wi...

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Poetry

Senses of Style Poetry before Interpretation

Dolven Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780226517117, ISBN: HB: 9780226517087, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing

Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism – especially now, when an age of interpretation asks us to look right through it. And yet style does so much tacit work, telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What place does it have among...

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The French List

Season of the Shadow

Miano Leonora

ISBN: HB: 9780857424808, Seagull Books, February 2018
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Leonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing –...

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Literary Criticism

Stendhal Fiction and the Themes of Freedom

Brombert Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780226519357, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors – Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels "The Red and the...

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Fiction

Seal Named Patches

Beltran Roxanne, Robinson Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9781602233317, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2017
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 39 colour plates

Scientists Roxanne Beltran and Patrick Robinson set off on a polar adventure, traveling to Antarctica to study the lives of Weddell seals. By finding Patches, a wily seal they've been tracking since its birth, they'll be able to learn a lot about ho...

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Safe House A Novel

Boltanski Christophe

ISBN: HB: 9780226449197, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets".The Safe House" tells their story. When the Nazis came, Etienne Boltanski divorce...

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Poetry

Smoothie

Toutoungi Claudine

ISBN: PB: 9781784104122, Carcanet, September 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Smoothie" is Claudine Toutoungi's debut collection of poems. It takes a tender, exuberant and deliciously dark look at our desire to be heard, whatever the cost; a desire that can be treacherous, comical and sometimes – often enough to fend off desp...

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Sarajevo Roses Poems

Waterman Rory

ISBN: PB: 9781784104085, Carcanet, September 2017
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Sarajevo Roses" is Rory Waterman's second collection of poems. From the start we are in the company of a poet on the move . On sleeper trains, in cars and on foot, Waterman takes us into Mediterranean Europe, to Palma's Bellver Castle, to Venice, to...

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Such Fine Boys

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300223347, Yale University Press, September 2017
208 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettiso...

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