Ultramarine

The chromatic, linguistically playful, erotic conclusion to Wayne Koestenbaum’s acclaimed trance poem trilogy. Ultramarine distills gleanings from four years of Koestenbaum’s trance notebooks (2015-2019) into a series of tightly-sewn collage-poems, filled with desiring bodies, cultural touchston...

Crowds

Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams. Although "the masses" have long held a thoroughly bad reputation in politics and culture, literary critic and avid sports fan Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ...

The form of love

The Form of Love explores what poetry can articulate about love that philosophy cannot. Reading seven poems, this book shows how figures ranging from Donne to Dickinson use poetic form to transform philosophy’s concern to convey truth about love into the concern to create a virtual experience of ...

Rediscovering gouache

An inspirational book to get you started with gouache.

The journals of captain cook

Depicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored and reliable narrative of adventures spanning across the globe. The Journals of James Cook depict three of Captain James Cook’s most glorious expeditions, starting in 1768 and lea...

Indebted

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequen...

Fit

A tender hearted debut about class and adolescence that follows a young girl’s abrupt move from a squalid foster home to a dazzling new life in London.

Urgent business

Getting business on board is essential if we want to achieve the United Nations’ goal of building a better future for people and planet by 2030. But much of the sustainable business agenda falls woefully short of what is needed, with some practices even accelerating the problems they’re trying to...

Make the world new

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes in Kingston, Toronto, and London and offering exciting sounds of protest and a careful, ...

A visitation of spirits

“With A Visitation of Spirits, Randall Kenan continues James Baldwin’s legendary tradition of ‘telling it on the mountain.’”—San Francisco ChronicleWhen A Visitation of Spirits was published, Randall Kenan (1963-2020) was instantly recognized as a writer of significance, and one who brought into ...

The complete poems of paul laurence dunbar

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar is a comprehensive selection of the iconic writer’s beloved poetry that features his unique rhythm and famous dialect. His work is a beautiful and critical examination of the human spirit.Paul Laurence Dunbar produced an impressive volume of work during...

The permeable self

How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What special traits gave both saints and demoniacs their ability to read minds? Why were mothers who died...

The red deal

A powerful guide to Indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet. The Red Deal is both a manifesto for Indigenous liberation and a plan for the future of our planet. Part movement document and part activist handbook, its ultimate goal is not to heal the existing structures, but to pres...

Intersectional feminist criminology

This pathbreaking book brings to bear a sweeping body of contemporary intersectional feminist work to disrupt the entire discipline of criminology. Women have been largely absent from criminological theory, research, policy, and practice. This fresh, conversational book critiques the field's domi...

The july revolution

A spirited eye-witness account of revolutionary upheaval and state repression.

Mule kick blues

The final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end.

Vertiginous life

Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal...

Autobiography of benvenuto cellini

Benvenuto Cellini started getting onto trouble at a young age. By age sixteen, he had already been exiled from his hometown for six months due to a public assault of another citizen. As a man with endless talents—sculpting, drafting, writing, music, Cellini enjoyed dabbling in many different ar...

Giving the devil his due

Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction)The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pu...

Eruptions of inanna

WINNER of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology’s Sarasvati Nonfiction Book Award! WINNER of PEN Oakland's Reginald C. Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism​!​Path-breaking lesbian poet & scholar Judy Grahn returns to the stories of Inanna the Mesopotamian goddess of erotic ...

How is a man supposed to be a man?

The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statist...

Gone to earth

These early, uncollected poems of Eleanor Wilner reveal the opening stages of a life’s work guided by confidence in the imagination’s visionary powers of change.

Super courses

From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve learningDecades of research have produced profound insights into how student learning and motivation can be unleashed—and it’s not through t...

Tomaž

Assembled using recorded conversations with the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun, this book-length poem by Joshua Beckman spans the first forty years of Šalamun’s life in his own words.

Narrative of the life of frederick douglass

First appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestseller in its day and one of the most powerful, authoritative texts lending support to the abolitionist movement. The author traces his life from an in...

How to figure out what to do with your life (next)

How to Figure Out What to Do with Your Life (Next) will help you figure out where you want to go next in your career and how to get there, using a career design process based on ideas from quantified self, design thinking, lean methodology, and more.

Life in the tar seeps

Finding an intricate web of life in the tar seeps of the Great Salt Lake

The way forward

How China became the China we know today, through war and societal transformation.

Working well with babies

The nine competencies needed for educators to provide optimal support for infants and toddlers.

Wynema

Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) is a novel by Muscogee American writer Sophia Alice Callahan. Published when the author was only 23 years old, Wynema: A Child of the Forest is the first novel written by an American Indian woman. Although it gained little, if any, attention upon publication, ...

Firepower

How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday AmericansThe National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful interest groups in America, and has consistently managed to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations—even despite widespread public s...

Permanent volta

A debut collection of love poems that resist subjection and ask how we might live together outside of capitalism, providing for each other through intimate acts of care and struggle

Eighty-eight views of mt. fuji

The awakening

First appearing in 1899 The Awakening is regarded as work presaging both feminist fiction and literary modernism. The author’s clear vision of a woman’s internal and external conflicts continue to demand engagement and response from readers. The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier as she recogn...

Oldladyvoice

Elisa Victoria's first foray in the English language with a novel which uncovers nine-year-old Marina's internal struggles, during the long dry spell in 1993.

Mysterious scenes from a dark fantasy world

Do not forget me

Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarin...

Go back at once

Never before available in the United States, Robert Aickman’s bizarre and timeless masterpiece! A gloriously eccentric fantasy by “most profound writer of what we call horror stories” (Peter Straub)

How to feed a horse

Janice Dewey’s poems swerve out of her Southwestern cattle ranch and into the larger world, emphasizing the private, the humorous, the Earth, and a woman-centered vision.

Giant moth perishes

A resplendent collection that reshapes the landscape of the imagination.

Forgery and memory at the end of the first millennium

An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, religious houses across Europe began fa...

The divine comedy (complete)

The Divine Comedy (1320) is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. Begun in 1308 while Dante was exiled from his native Florence, The Divine Comedy—a long poem divided into three books of 33 cantos each—presents the author’s spiritual journey from sinfulness and despair to salvation and self-unders...

All this time

Cedar Sigo’s fourth collection evoke ancestors and mentors in ways that speak to the devotional practice of writing itself.

Constructing community

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban developmentWho makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich ethnographic portrait of th...

Hawaii's story by hawaii's queen

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is a moving personal portrait of a girl who grew up to become Hawaii’s first and only queen, a beloved monarch who fought for the rights of her people.Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an autobiography by Queen Lili‘uokalani. Published in 1898, the book was writ...

Honey mine

This visceral, thrilling collection of stories by prescient lesbian writer Camille Roy explores what it takes to survive as a young sex and gender outlaw in the heart of America.