What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with...
The Dark Fantastic Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek...
Even More Laughs
From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected...
Semicolon: How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life
‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, SpectatorA biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression...
Words No Bars Can Hold Literacy Learning in Prison
Incarcerated bodies, liberated minds: a narrative of literacy education behind bars. Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most...
What Noise Against the Cane
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore,...
Pearl Part of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation
‘Lovely pearl, which it pleases a prince to set radiantly in gold so bright….Alas! I lost her in a garden; through the grass to the ground it slipped from me. I languish,...
The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript In Modern English Prose Translation
For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years. With the changing...
In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Dismantles the Deception of Idealism
Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geography, connected by a theme named in its title: Purity. Jeffrey Brown visits the author on...
Finding Mother God
Honoring the female part of the divine, from a refreshingly modern perspective.Call Her Goddess―call her God the Mother―call her the Feminine Principle―Her children need...
