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Fiction

Beforeland A Novel

Vallianatos Corinna

ISBN: PB: 9781946724380, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In The Beforeland, a boy's desperate act of rebellion against his grandmother reverberates outward, causing rifts and reckonings in the lives of others: a man fleeing his own troubled family who becomes the grandson's unwitting accomplice; a poet str...

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Literary Criticism

Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

Der-Wei Wang David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...

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Anthropology

Witch's Hand Curing, Killing, Kinship, and Colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea's River Basin

Mitchell William E.

ISBN: PB: 9781912808458, University of Chicago Press, HAU, October 2020
500 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From 1971 to 1972, William E. Mitchell undertook fieldwork on suffering and healing among the Lujere of Papua New Guinea's Upper Sepik River Basin. At a time when it was not yet common to make colonial agencies a subject of anthropological study, Mit...

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Psychology

Anthropology

With the Wind and the Waves A Guide to Mental Health Practices in Alaska Native Communities

Droby Ray M.

ISBN: PB: 9781602234161, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In With the Wind and the Waves, psychologist Ray M. Droby tells a story of treatment and learning, drawing on experiences ranging from an ocean journey he took on the Bering Sea while serving in a Alaska Native community to his clinical work as a psy...

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America

Lost Black Scholar Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought

Varel David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226754437, ISBN: HB: 9780226534886, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Allison Davis (1902-1983), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America's...

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Fiction

Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association

Rothman David

ISBN: PB: 9781632430878, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

This magical realist tale follows the travails of a burnt-out teacher from Queens who spends his time obsessing over the fact that he has been cheated out of living in his Grandma Rose's Lower East Side apartment and is thus priced out of his "More R...

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Literary Criticism

Lyric Now

Longenbach James

ISBN: PB: 9780226716046, ISBN: HB: 9780226715995, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever rehearsing their own present, inviting readers int...

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Poetry

wyrd] bird

Stancek Claire Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781632430847, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German m...

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Poetry

Breathing Place

Bedient Cal

ISBN: PB: 9781632430823, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in The Breathing Place, Calvin Bedient's fifth collection of poetry, take in and move through three areas of consideration. Focusing first on the turmoil of an imperfect world before turning to raging social concerns, the poems finally come...

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Poetry

Marksman

Friedman Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780887486593, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jeff Friedman's eighth collection of poetry, The Marksman, blends surrealism, dark comedy, fable, hyperbole, history, and reinvented myth to explore the question of what it means to survive and live in our troubled times. This is a book of migrations...

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