Literature & Criticism
Criticism and Truth
On Method in Literary Studies
Jonathan Kramnick
“Here is the study of literary critical method we needed— a slim volume capable of displacing shelves of manifes tos on the future of the discipline. Criticism and Truth grounds our distinctive epistemology in everyday prac tices. It captures the brilliance of literary critics every where, yet only Jonathan Kramnick could have written this gemlike book.”—Rachel Sagner Buurma, coauthor of The Teaching Archive
Thinking Literature
2023 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2
1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83053-7 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Something Speaks to Me
Where Criticism Begins
Michel Chaouli
“Chaouli’s passionate, brooding exploration of poetic criticism should be essential reading not for literary crit ics alone but for anyone who has fallen under the spell of a powerful work of art and feels the mysterious compul sion to speak about the experience.”—Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University
2024 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2
2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83042-1 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
Throw Yourself Away
Writing and Masochism
Julia Jarcho
“Reading masochism as a technology of world‑building, Jarcho attends to the intersections of desire, negation, and race. Brilliant and seductive, this book illuminates how fantasy gets transmitted, casting the masochist as an important architect for our present moment. You’ll never be able to think of masochism or the self in the same way again.”—Amber Jamilla Musser, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Thinking Literature
2024 256 p. 6 x 9
3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83503-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
My Poetics
Maureen N. McLane
“By turns meditative and exhilarating, My Poetics is a daz zling companion to McLane’s prodigious body of work. A moving, musical work of both criticism and art.”
—Anahid Nersessian, author of Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse
“Equally attentive to the material conditions that shape poetry today and to the untimely histories of poetic practices and forms, My Poetics develops a bracing and nuanced investigation of the thinking that makes poetry and that poetry generates, again and anew. My Poetics will be an essential, enduring resource for readers and practitioners of poetry.”—Margaret Ronda, author of Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End
2024 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 halftones
4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83264-7 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
The Blue Period
Black Writing in the Early Cold War
Jesse McCarthy
“Over the course of five breathtaking, carefully argued chapters, McCarthy rereads key figures in the black lit erary tradition. These writers’ retreat to a physical and metaphorical underground was not a retreat from poli tics, according to McCarthy, but rather a voyage into the interior where a new, existential vantage point on polit ical life and futurity becomes possible. In his lucid and engaging style, McCarthy combines subtle historicism with close reading and interdisciplinary insight. The result is a pathbreaking study—and robust defense—of African American literature of the era.”
—Vaughn Rasberry, Stanford University
Thinking Literature
2024 304 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones
5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83217-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Glorious Bodies
Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature
Colby Gordon
“In this field‑transforming book, Gordon accomplishes a double tour de force. He compellingly resurrects the trans‑affirming capacity of many early modern theologi cal categories explored in English literary works, thereby reclaiming trans life in our own moment as what it has always been: a sacred matter. Simultaneously, he shows how those categories’ enmeshment in early modern white world‑making curtails their radical potential. Gordon’s gloriously intersectional vision of early modern trans studies is a revelation.”—Noémie Ndiaye, University of Chicago
2024 272 p. 6 x 9
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83500-6 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Odd Affinities
Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies
Elizabeth Abel
“What a joy it is to think alongside Elizabeth Abel, our most brilliant critic of Virginia Woolf’s fiction. A work of gentle genius, Odd Affinities brims with startling readings of Woolf’s hidden presence in the writings of Larsen, Baldwin, Barthes, and Sebald.”—Merve Emre, editor of The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
2024 304 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones
7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83267-8 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
In Poe’s Wake
Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric
Jonathan Elmer
“In Poe’s Wake, Elmer shows, are to be found some of the most haunting and exhilarating formal experiments of the last two centuries, from symbolist poetry to graphic art. Elmer’s engrossing study affirms Poe’s place as a key aesthetic resource for the present.”—Emily Ogden, author of On Not Knowing
2024 224 p. 6 x 9 18 color plates, 28 halftones
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83349-1 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
On Both Sides of the Tracks
Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature
Morgane Cadieu
“Incredibly wide‑ranging and rich, On Both Sides of the Tracks stands to be the definitive account of social mobility and class in contemporary French literature. Cadieu incites us to read these texts as closely as their authors read their own lives.”—Annabel L. Kim, Harvard University
2024 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 6 halftones
9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83036-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Is There God after Prince?
Dispatches from an Age of Last Things
Peter Coviello
“Coviello navigates . . . a world obsessed with nostalgia for the past and the impending disaster of the future. Exploring our yearning for entertainment amid turmoil, Coviello examines how art’s meaning transforms along side us. The Sopranos, Gladys Knight, Sally Rooney, The Shining, Joni Mitchell, Paula Fox, Steely Dan—no piece of culture evades his gaze. Through the lens of what Coviello calls ‘enstrickenness,’ he wonders: Is there genuine hope to be found through sentimentality?”—The Millions, “Most Anticipated: The Great 2023 Book Preview”
2023 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2
10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82808-4 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Maladies of the Will
The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
Jennifer L. Fleissner
“This long‑awaited monograph is poised to transform literary studies and philosophy with a brilliant reexam ination of two of these disciplines’ most cherished objects of study: the novel and the will . . . Combining aston ishing foresight and erudition, Maladies of the Will will revolutionize why we read that most modern of forms, the novel, and how we think of that most ancient of prob lems, the will.”— Critical Inquiry
2022 512 p. 6 x 9
11 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-82202-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
God’s Scrivener
The Madness and Meaning of Jones Very Clark Davis
“One of God’s Scrivener ’s many strengths is how it uses light reflected from the history of Transcendentalism to fix a fine grained portrait of Very. He seemed unsta ble, but then, so did many of the transcendentalists. If there was madness in Very, it was perhaps only in taking Transcendentalism’s wildest ideas seriously enough to put into practice.”—Poetry Magazine
2023 312 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82868-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Novels by Aliens
Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century
Kate Marshall
“A timely and insightful study . . . This book has the potential to transform novel theory and literary criticism generally and to illustrate the important contribution both fiction and literary theory have to make to debates concerning humanity’s most urgent and pressing issues.”
—Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative 2023 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 halftones
13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82783-4 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Losing the Plot
Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel
Pardis Dabashi
“An erudite, elegant, and insightful exploration of mod ernism’s ambivalent relationship to plot. Reading Larsen alongside Garbo, or Barnes alongside Dietrich, Dabashi shows us how the encounter with commercial narrative cinema allowed modernist writers to negotiate the dou ble feelings of repudiation and longing for stability and coherence associated with the closure and teleology of plot.”—Dora Zhang, University of California, Berkeley 2023 304 p. 6 x 9 47 halftones
14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82925-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Sovereign Fictions
Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism
Ilya Kliger
“In this both sweeping and subtle book Kliger returns to the terrain of nineteenth‑century fiction to situate the Russian tradition alongside and against the European. Russian literature is rediscovered here in its new func tion: to make the state, and the state of exception, visible.”
—Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley
Thinking Literature
2024 320 p. 6 x 9
15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83187-9 $32.00 Your Price: $22.40
On Close Reading
John Guillory
At a time of debate about the future of “English” as a dis cipline and the fundamental methods of literary study, few terms appear more frequently than “close reading,” now widely regarded as the core practice of literary study. But what exactly is close reading, and where did it come from? Here John Guillory explains why the New Critics—who supposedly made close reading central to literary study—so seldom use the term. And he provides an account of close reading as a technique, a particular kind of methodical procedure that can be described but not prescribed, and that is transmitted largely by demon stration and imitation.
Guillory’s short book will be essential reading for all college teachers of literature. An annotated bibliography, curated by Scott Newstok, provides a guide to key docu ments in the history of close reading along with valuable suggestions for further research.
2024 144 p. 5 x 8
16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83743-7 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
Professing Criticism
Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
John Guillory
“In Professing Criticism , [Guillory] takes on an even bigger question: What is literary criticism—specifically, the kind of highly specialized, theoretically sophisticated textual readings generated by academic critics—really for?”
—Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times
2022 464 p. 6 x 9
17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82130-6 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Cultural Capital
The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
New Enlarged Edition
John Guillory
With an Introduction by Merve Emre
2023 440 p. 6 x 9
18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83059-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Amphion
Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity
Leah Middlebrook
“What use is a new myth? What difference could it make to see the history of poetry through the lens of a fictive figure of Amphion, who builds cities with the power of song? With impressively wide ranging knowledge and profoundly deep learning, Middlebrook provides a reso nant answer. Following Amphion as he appears in direct and fugitive ways, in poetic projects ancient and modern, across boundaries of language and culture; Middlebrook allows us to attend to poetry as an art that belongs to this world; invested and implicated—as we are—in projects of civilizational construction, critique, and renewal.”
—Oren J. Izenberg, University of California, Irvine
Thinking Literature
2024 208 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83552-5 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
The Burden of Rhyme
Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History
Naomi Levine
“Revelatory and relevant to all scholars and readers of poetry and of the history of literary criticism, The Burden of Rhyme speaks to anyone interested in how we might, as Levine says, ‘reimagine the relationship between schol arly knowledge and the ineffable charisma of a poem.’”— Adela Pinch, University of Michigan
2024 256 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 3 halftones
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83497-9 $27.50 Your Price: $ 19.25
Apropos of Something
A History of Irrelevance and Relevance
Elisa Tamarkin
“A phenomenal achievement—lucid, urgent, and ram pantly intelligent. As a contribution to intellectual history, philosophy, aesthetic criticism, and theories of reading, this book possesses an Emersonian power to realize one of our great abstractions.”—Gavin Jones, author of Reclaiming John Steinbeck: Writing for the Future of Humanity
2022 448 p. 6 x 9 62 color plates, 5 halftones
21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-45312-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Likeness of Things Unlike A Poetics of Incommensurability
Sharon Cameron
In Sharon Cameron’s essays, a magnetic constellation gathers works of Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Cather, and Stevens—each manifesting in its own terms “the like ness of things unlike”—to form a loose commonality in a strain of American writing in which incommensurable elements can’t be integrated and can’t be separated.
2025 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2
22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83705-5 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
The Kinds of Poetry I Want
Essays & Comedies
Charles Bernstein
For more than four decades, Charles Bernstein has been at the forefront of experimental poetry, ever reaching for a radical poetics that defies schools, periods, and cultural institutions. The Kinds of Poetry I Want is a celebration of invention and includes not only poetry but also essays on aesthetics and literary studies, interviews with other poets, autobiographical sketches, and more.
2024 368 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones, 3 tables
23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83609-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
James Joyce and the Irish Revolution
The Easter Rising as Modern Event
Luke Gibbons
“The Easter Rising, far from being consigned to nostalgia, is seen as a catalyst for global processes of decolonization . . . [Gibbons’s] tracing of connections and influences— real, virtual, and suggestive—between revolution in the street and in the word results in richly layered and some times erudite chapters that repay close reading . . [and] open up many fascinating paths.”—Irish Times
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
24 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82447-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Shakespeare’s Once and Future Child
Speculations on Sovereignty
Joseph Campana
“This is an ambitious and genuinely innovative book. Campana has assembled a dynamic cluster of themes around the infinitely mutable, malleable, and violable figure of the child in Shakespeare. Roving freely across the breadth of Shakespeare’s works, Campana compel lingly demonstrates how childhood came to figure the pressures and transformations of sovereignty, biopower, and mercantilism in the early modern period.”
—Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine 2024 256 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83254-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
My Dark Room
Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century England
Julie Park
“A beautiful book on the privacies of writing, the rapt silences of the mind’s darkened room, lit by rays of the everyday: the habitations of thought that those before Proust conceived. My Dark Room answers to my sensi bility; it teaches me who I am and where I come from, providing new coordinates and new darknesses between the points of light.”—Alexander Nemerov, author of The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s
2023 352 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 50 halftones
26 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82476-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
What Proust Heard
Novels and the Ethnography of Talk
Michael Lucey
“The work of a scholar at the peak of his powers. Lucey offers an entirely new reading of Proust. This book helps us understand what novels can do to register and create social worlds. The result is a new genre of literary crit icism that helps us understand how and why we experi ence reading (of all things) as a conversation outside our own heads.”—Virginia Jackson, University of California, Irvine
2022
352 p. 6 x 9
27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81667-8 $38.00 Your Price: $26.60
John Donne’s Physics
Elizabeth D. Harvey and Timothy M. Harrison
“A remarkable book. In their engaging way, the authors resituate Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, his exploration of what they call ‘the extended domain of dying,’ at the center of his corpus, where philosophical, physical, medical, and other kinds of knowledge con verge.”—Roland Greene, Stanford University
2024 256 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83351-4 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Inventing the Alphabet
The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
Johanna Drucker
“[Drucker] provides a rich, detailed account of how western thinkers have understood the origins and devel opment of the alphabet. . . . Millions learn the alphabet in childhood, and Drucker’s study opens up a fascinating realm of ideas and scholarship into its origins and mean ing.”—BBC History Magazine
2022 384 p. 7 x 10 100 halftones
29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81581-7 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Networks of Improvement
Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution
Jon Mee
“Mee offers a sophisticated account of reading as a social practice central to the circulation of knowledge, both grand and granular, responsive to large questions with local particularities. A comprehensive, clearly written, and carefully organized.”—Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University
2023 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82838-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said
Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen
Karen Sullivan
“Historians usually exclude gossip and rumor from their sources, or use them with caution. In her new book about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Karen Sullivan does the opposite. She looks at what friends, enemies, troubadours and chroniclers as late as the sixteenth century had to say, often relaying it with the phrase ut dicebatur, ‘as it was said’. . . . Moving between fact, rumor and outright fic tion, Sullivan traces Eleanor’s reputation through five phases of her career: as heiress, crusader, patroness of poets, queen mother and aged affiliate of Fontevraud, the nunnery where she is buried.”—Barbara Newman, London Review of Books
2023 304 p. 6 x 9
31 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82583-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Rhetorical Renaissance
The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks
Kathy Eden
“A significant contribution to our knowledge of the histo ry of rhetoric and culture of the Renaissance, revealing how Renaissance writers thought and wrote by drilling down into the intellectual foundations of the age.”
—Colin Burrow, University of Oxford 2023 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2
32 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82126-9 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Fragments of a World
William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life
Lesley Smith
“Smith’s insightful discussion of these colorful sermons provides us not only with a valuable insight into a fasci nating medieval mind, worthy of comparison with the better‑known Robert Grosseteste, but also an engaging portrait of Paris and its inhabitants at a pivotal time in the city’s history.”—Times Literary Supplement 2023 312 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 halftones
33 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82618-9 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Textual Magic
Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England
Katherine Storm Hindley
“Hindley paints a picture of magic’s place in medieval England, producing an eye‑opening study of ‘words at their most powerful’ . . . that promise[s] to change the way we think about magic in the medieval world.”
—Mary Flannery, Times Literary Supplement
“A thought‑provoking look at the distinctive ways medi eval English people viewed language [that] intrigues. It’s an enlightening deep dive.”—Publishers Weekly 2023 312 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 26 tables
34 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82533-5 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Waste and the Wasters
Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England
Eleanor Johnson
“One of those rare academic books that remixes a col lection of ideas—medieval poetry, land management, weather, bees, God’s vengeance, and climate change—in a style that’s eminently readable, bringing the past to life and connecting it to the present in one engaging sentence after another.”— Christian Century 2023 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2
35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83017-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Joy of the Worm
Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature
Drew Daniel
“The book is rich with references to literary critics, philosophers, and thinkers both ancient and modern; present‑day thinking about suicide; and aspects of cur rent popular culture but is always accessible and easy to follow. Highly recommended.”— Choice
Thinking Literature
2022 288 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones
36 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-81650-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Inner Sea
Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal
Josiah Blackmore
“In our fruitful age of global studies and the West’s fascination with Africa and India, The Inner Sea could not be more timely. Blackmore offers readers a stun ning account of Da Gama’s unprecedented voyages from Portugal to Africa in 1497, reaching India in 1498, and their profound meaning.”—Marina S. Brownlee, Princeton University
2022 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 9 halftones
37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82046-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Fixers
Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature
Zrinka Stahuljak
“Stahuljak boldly rewrites the terms of literary history as we understand it, decentering its national authors and genres to refocus our gaze on a late medieval literature that comes into being by and through its ‘fixers’—worldly translators and emissaries, diplomats, and merchants— whose activities give shape to an early, precolonial world literature.”—Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University
2024 368 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones
38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83040-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World
Michelle Karnes
“An adventurous comparative study of Christian and Islamic culture from the seventh to the fourteenth cen turies, with forays into later works such as Don Quixote. [Karnes] looks at natural philosophy and optics, cognitive theories, travel literature and wonder tales, seeing in these varied disciplines a common thread of intellectual curiosity.”—New York Review of Books
2022 272 p. 6 x 9
39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81975-4 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Librarian’s Atlas
The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern
Spain
Seth Kimmel
“The Librarian’s Atlas is an early modern booklover’s dream. It invites the reader to peer over the shoulder of the creative act of world‑making that took place in early modern Spanish libraries. As Kimmel masterfully shows, these libraries were not passive book repositories but vibrant and intellectually stimulating sites of knowl edge creation. Their contents and organization were also political projects essential to the formation of a mod ern understanding of the world.”—María M. Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University
2024 272 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones
40 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83317-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1
Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The first of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.
The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
2022 274 p. 51/2 x 81/2
41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82109-2 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2
Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.
The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
2022 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2
42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82108-5 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
The Force of Truth
Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault
Daniele Lorenzini
“This fascinating, detailed, and persuasive book . . . turns a new page in debates over Foucault’s fundamental project and its ethical significance, and it is also an excel lent introduction to Foucault’s more recently published collections of lectures.”— Choice 2023 192 p. 6 x 9 2 tables
43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82745-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
“What Is Critique?” and “The Culture of the Self”
Michel Foucault
“Between 1978 and 1983, Foucault’s work underwent a dramatic and much‑discussed shift from a focus on gov ernmentality and biopolitics to an exploration of ancient techniques and practices of the self. . . . This volume will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Foucault’s late work and its relevance for the practice of critical theory, broadly construed.”—Amy Allen, Penn State University
The Chicago Foucault Project 2024 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2
44 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-38344-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Hospitality, Volume I
Jacques Derrida
Hospitality reproduces a two year seminar series deliv ered by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997.
The Seminars of Jacques Derrida 2023 320 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones
45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82801-5 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Hospitality, Volume II
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.
The Seminars of Jacques Derrida 2024 312 p. 6 x 9
46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83130-5 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Lands of Likeness
For a Poetics of Contemplation
Kevin Hart
“In this learned and comprehensive book on the poet ic legacy of contemplation, Hart guides us from the early church fathers to the Romantics, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and many major twentieth‑century poets who looked on nature in light of its likeness to spirit.”
—Susan Stewart, Princeton University
2023 432 p. 6 x 9
47 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82758-2 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Metaracial
Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity
Rei Terada
“Terada reveals the philosophical sources of an embar rassing paradox—antiblack antiracism—which continu ously affects political radicalism. An elucidation which is demanding but also fascinating and hugely clarifying!”
—Étienne Balibar, author of Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
2023 224 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawings
48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82371-3 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
A Certain Justice
Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination
Haiyan Lee
“In place of the stale debate over China’s progress toward a Western ‘rule of law,’ A Certain Justice offers a fresh interpretation of Chinese legal culture informed by China’s own literary traditions.”—Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University
2023 352 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones
49 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82525-0 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
New in Paperback
The Writer as Migrant
Ha Jin
“Though the issues are weighty, Jin’s prose is straightfor ward and welcoming. . . . In this poignant and provoca tive book, Jin takes us on this journey [to our envisioned homelands], revealing paths laid by migrant writers before him and perhaps by those who will follow.”
—Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle
The Rice University Campbell Lectures
2024 112 p. 51/2 x 81/2
50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83383-5 $12.00 Your Price: $8.40
Black Scare / Red Scare
Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
Charisse Burden-Stelly
“In the searing pages of Black Scare / Red Scare, Burden‑Stelly . . . unravels the sinister threads of racist oppression, capitalist exploitation, and political repres sion that have been woven into the fabric of U.S. history. . . . This carefully scaffolded study unveils the insidious dynamics of the “Black Scare / Red Scare” phenomenon, revealing how anti‑communist ideologies served as gov ernance technologies to discipline Black radicals. . . . Ultimately, this work significantly contributes to schol arship and theory, challenging prevailing narratives and prompting a deeper understanding of the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of systemic racism.”
Choice
2023 352 p. 6 x 9
51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83015-5 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Black Paper
Writing in a Dark Time
Teju Cole
“In this erudite collection of observations written over the past three years, art historian Cole meditates on art, identity, politics, and literature to decipher ‘the fractured moment in our history.’ . . . Offering a window into his articulate worldview, Cole brings into sharp relief the very humanity he seeks.”—Publishers Weekly
Berlin Family Lectures
2023 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 color plates, 6 halftones
52 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82386-7 $17.00 Your Price: $11.90
Travels in the Americas
Notes and Impressions of a New World
Albert Camus
“With its ample photographs, rich introduction, and smooth‑flowing, conversational translation, Travels in the Americas is an engaging travel account that reintroduces Albert Camus as both a man and an existentialist icon moving through North and South America in the postwar years.”—Foreword Reviews
The France Chicago Collection
2023 152 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 halftones
53 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69495-5 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
New in Paperback States of Plague
Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris
“In this mélange of history, literary analysis, and mem oir, the authors explore the intersection between a cel ebrated novel, current realities, scholarship, language, and the tricks that time and circumstance play on all of them. Seasoned literary historian Kaplan and poet and translator Marris, whose new translation of The Plague was published in 2021, team up to cultivate a deeper understanding of Camus’ classic novel. In alternating short essays, they braid together their distinct sensibil ities to offer fresh insight and added significance to a canonical mid‑20th‑century book . . . . This is a notable addition to the literature about an indispensable French author.”—Kirkus Reviews
2024 152 p. 51/2 x 81/2
54 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83330-9 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20
To Live Is to Resist
The Life of Antonio Gramsci
Jean-Yves Frétigné
“[Frétigné brings a] wealth of new material and welcome precision to his biography. . . . If Gramsci has aged better than many of his peers, it is in part because he became a thinker for a defeated, rather than a triumphalist, left. The ground of this inquiry may have shifted in the decades since his death, but the main battle lines remain the same, and this still makes Gramsci a thinker worth turning to in our moment.”—Thomas Meaney, The New Republic
2023 328 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawings, 1 tables
55 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82938-8 $22.00 Your Price: $15.40
Seeing Baya
Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris Alice Kaplan
“By turning the lens on Baya Mahieddine, a talented Algerian painter of humble origins who made her way into the salons of Paris and the pages of Vogue magazine, Kaplan shows that ‘seeing Baya’ is seeing the true power of art—its pleasure and its promise. An accomplished his torian, Kaplan brings to this book her signature rigorous research and beautiful pen. The result, much like Baya’s canvases, is an utter delight.”—James McAuley, author of The House of Fragile Things
Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection
2024 176 p. 6 x 9 26 color plates, 16 halftones
56 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83508-2 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Audubon at Sea
The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon
Edited
by Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King
“In a new selection of John James Audubon’s oceangoing writings, we feel the pressure of his obsessive quest to record and draw every bird he could, and his journals in particular expose all the moody complexity of a man Irmscher describes as ‘passionate, outrageous, salty, vain, and brutal, despondent, vulnerable, sentimental, self‑ironical, and tender.’”—Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books
2022 352 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 38 halftones
57 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75667-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Of Bridges
A Poetic and Philosophical Account
Thomas Harrison
“Like all great books, each a bridge from lone writer to lone reader, Harrison’s magisterial and lively Of Bridges calls us to attention and makes this difficult task more bearable. For there is no ultimate crossing over, only a temporary dwelling in between.”— On the Seawall 2023 304 p. 6 x 9 3 color plates, 73 halftones
58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82649-3 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
The Subversive Simone Weil
A Life in Five Ideas
Robert Zaretsky
“This biography of an exceptional twentieth‑century thinker traces her inspirational experiences and philos ophy. Zaretsky unveils Weil’s depth and seeming con tradictions (rationalism and mysticism, revolution and belief) to explain her lasting appeal to readers.”
The Bookseller
2023 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2
59 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82660-8 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50
Victories Never Last
Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
Robert Zaretsky
“Victories Never Last is a tribute to plague literature, an elegy for the lives lost to COVID 19, and an ode to joy for those who survived SARS CoV 2.”—The Lancet
2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2
60 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80349-4 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
The Family Idiot
Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857, An Abridged Edition
Jean-Paul Sartre
An approachable abridgment of Sartre’s important analysis of Flaubert.
2023 304 p. 6 x 9
61 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82232-7 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
My Three Dads
Patriarchy on the Great Plains
Jessa Crispin
“Crispin’s erudite analysis and biting wit make this multi faceted history unmissable. Searing and intelligent, this delivers on all counts.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2
62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82010-1 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
Perfect Wave
More Essays on Art and Democracy
Dave Hickey
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 1 line drawing
63 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33314-4 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Keats’s Odes
A Lover’s Discourse
Anahid Nersessian
“[Keats’s Odes] appears freed by the sensuousness of Keats’s own verse, standing on the verge of becoming something more than literary criticism. While not an imitation of Keatsian style, Nersessian shares his willing ness for vulnerability and for writing that enfleshes the experience of being subject to the world because you are a subject in it.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
2022 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2
64 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82652-3 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50
Ahab’s Rolling Sea
A Natural History of “Moby-Dick”
Richard J. King
“A lighthearted and incredibly enjoyable read that manages somehow, at the right moments, to be both broad and narrow in scope. It should be required reading for anyone attempting Moby Dick. . . . A talented and clear eyed writer.”—Science
2021 448 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 71 halftones, 1 table
65 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78987-3 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
New in Paperback
Lydia Maria Child
A Radical American Life
Lydia Moland
“Moland wants us to think hard about what we owe each other as citizens and human beings. In that sense she has produced a call to arms, an almanac for activists, as well as an ample, honest, and immensely readable book.”— Wall Street Journal
2024 560 p. 6 x 9 61 halftones
66 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83334-7 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
On Not Knowing
How to Love and Other Essays
Emily Ogden
“Ogden’s brief, buoyant, informative, and irresistible essays on motherhood, herding, hope, riffing, listening, and one‑night stands enter their subjects through style pass‑throughs: small, sturdy, and precisely angled. Ogden doesn’t fix thought to a map of itself, she invites it into an ever less‑fettered conversation with her own life and the lives and words of others.”—Ploughshares
2022 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2
67 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75135-1 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20
Permanent Crisis
The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon
“Permanent Crisis is a significant and stimulating book. It offers an account of the philosophical dilemmas of the modern humanities that anyone concerned with the his tory of humanistic reason will want to contend with. It is filled with provocative readings of both well‑known and forgotten figures.”—Los Angeles Review of Books 2023 320 p. 6 x 9
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The Pensive Citadel
Victor Brombert
“The Pensive Citadel is an engaging and persuasive plea for the central importance of literature to a well‑rounded existence and a vigorous life of the mind. Brombert deftly weaves his own experiences and his changing responses to works of literature into his readings and rereadings. In this book, he successfully answers a question he often discussed with his students: Do literary works merely provide a higher form of entertainment, or is the print ed word the revelation of a dialogue we carry on with ourselves? It is most emphatically both and more.”—Tess Lewis, writer, essayist, and translator
2023 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2
69 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82866-4 $25.00 Your Price: $ 17.50
The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction
Amy J. Schneider
“The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction will please both fiction editors and authors who must self‑edit. . . [Schneider] quickly but thoroughly covers style guides, characters, and locations. Each provides excellent advice to help authors create richer descriptions of these key story ingredients. The text is packed with good examples, as well as advice on handling issues you won’t find in other guides.”—Technical Communication
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing 2023 224 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones
70 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76737-6 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
“The Girl in the Window” and Other True Tales
An Anthology with Tips for Finding, Reporting, and Writing Nonfiction Narratives
Lane DeGregory
“ The entries testify to the rich panorama of human expe rience and the writing guidance is a boon. Aspiring jour nalists will want to check this out.”—Publishers Weekly 2023 284 p. 6.5 x 9 28 halftones
71 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77127-4 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
On Revision
The
Only Writing That Counts
William Germano
“Germano advises how to identify and write to the tar get audience, build a convincing argument, create an inventory and overview of what’s present in early drafts, choose the best supporting evidence, and finish with the strongest possible ending. This book is essential for anyone facing down the vast and mysterious landscape of academic writing; invaluable for students and educators alike.”—Booklist
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing 2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftones, 6 line drawings
72 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-41065-4 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
The Design of Books
An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers
Debbie Berne
“Berne gives the reader an insider’s look at how a manu script becomes a book. . . . A must for aspiring authors, this accessible, even entertaining guide will also appeal to book nerds who read the ‘About the Type’ page when it appears at the end of a book.”—Booklist, starred review
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing 2024 256 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones
73 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82295-2 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, Second Edition
Brooke Borel
In this second edition, Borel covers the evolving media landscape, with new guidance on checking audio and video sources, polling data, and sensitive subjects such as trauma and abuse. The sections on working with writers, editors, and producers have been expanded, and new material includes fresh exercises and advice on getting fact checking gigs. Borel also addresses the challenges of fact checking in a world where social media, artificial intelligence, and the metaverse may make it increasingly difficult for everyone to identify false information.
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing 2023 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 halftones, 3 line drawings
74 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81789-7 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Developmental Editing, Second Edition
A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers
Scott Norton
The only guide dedicated solely to developmental editing, now revised and updated with new exercises and a chap ter on fiction.
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing 2023 320 p. 6 x 9 8 line drawings, 10 tables
75 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79363-4 $32.00 Your Price: $22.40
The Making of Shakespeare’s
First Folio
Emma Smith
A revised and updated edition of Shakespeare’s First Folio that explains the significance of the iconic publication.
2023 277 p. 61/4 x 91/4 70 color plates
76 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-598-7 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
Artist Eric Ravilious’s stunning illustrative interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
2024 96 p. 7.64 x 10.51 79 halftones
77 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-624-3 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Chaucer Here and Now
Edited by Marion Turner
A collection of essays exploring Geoffrey Chaucer’s life, work, and enduring impact.
2024 224 p. 8.15 x 9.61 75 color plates
78 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-615-1 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Write Cut Rewrite
The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature
Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon
An illumination of writing’s mysteries through examin ing the words and ideas that were edited out of renowned novels, poems, and plays.
2024 176 p. 9.33 x 10.2 80 color plates
79 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-618-2 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
An exquisitely illustrated, luxury collector’s edition of Dicken’s holiday tale.
2023 168 p. 63/4 x 9 12 color plates, 22 halftones
80 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-617-5 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Literary Cats
Judith Robinson and Scott Pack
A light hearted journey through the history of literary cats.
2022 208 p. 5 x 73/4 15 halftones
81 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-573-4 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711–1851)
Bryan A. Garner
“Wryly written and richly illustrated. . . . Captivating sto ries of flawed individuals seeking tidy perfection in the glorious mess that is English.”—Times Literary Supplement
2021 301 p. 71/2 x 91/4 496 color illustrations
82 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60583-092-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Magazines and the American Experience
Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D.
Steven Lomazow
The history of the American magazine is intricately entwined with the history of the nation itself. Illustrated with more than four hundred color images, this book examines an enormous selection of specialty magazines devoted to a range of interests running from labor to leisure to literature.
2021 325 p. 81/2 x 11 435 color plates
83 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60583-091-9 $75.00 Your Price: $52.50
Melville’s Billy Budd at 100
William Palmer Johnston
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) is Herman Melville’s most read book after Moby Dick and is regularly taught in literature courses. This book traces the bibliography of Melville’s great unfinished text.
2024 40 p. 7 x 10 9 color plates
84 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60583-112-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects
From the Collection of Glen S. Miranker
Cathy Miranker and Glen Miranker
A dazzling collection of rare art and documents illumi nate the life of Sherlock Holmes beyond the page, aiming its magnifying glass toward a host of overlooked extra lit erary objects that tell the story of the famed detective’s publication history outside of Doyle’s original canon.
2022 168 p. 9 x 12 238 color plates
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Emerging Voices
American Women Writers, 1650–1920
Edited by Iola S. Haverstick, Jean W. Ashton, Caroline F. Schimmel, and Mary C. Schlosser
An overview of the works of authors who reflect the historical concerns of women living in America and the emerging voice of the American woman writer.
2024 120 p. 6 x 9 2
86 Paper ISBN: 978-0-910672-22-1 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Treasures from the Hispanic Society Library
Mitchell A. Codding and John O’Neill
Exhibiting the full range of the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department of the Hispanic Society of America, Treasures from the Hispanic Society Library, which accompanied the eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, relates the history of Spain and the spread of its language and culture to the Americas through manuscripts and printed books.
2022 260 p. 8 x 11 111 color plates and 2 black and white images
87 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60583-102-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The English Actor
From Medieval to Modern Peter Ackroyd
“In this whirlwind tour through centuries of the English stage, esteemed historian and prolific author Peter Ackroyd explains its whys and wherefores. From the early mystery and miracle plays to Shakespeare, the Restoration, the Victorian era, and forward to the present day, the story of the English stage and those who trod and tread its boards is engagingly told with remarkable clari ty and wit. . . . required reading for anyone claiming to be a theater fan, Anglophile, or aspiring actor.”—Booklist
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2024 416 p. 5.08 x 7.8
88 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-839-8 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Dante’s New Lives
Biography and Autobiography
Elisa Brilli and Giuliano Milani
“A splendidly calibrated restoration of the many ‘lives’ of Dante, this book brings to the English‑speaking audience a highly original and very accessible take on the fasci nating story of Dante’s life and times.”—Elena Lombardi, University of Oxford
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2023 368 p. 61/4 x 91/4 4 halftones
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The Lost Princess
Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales
Anne E. Duggan
“Drawing on decades of research, Duggan is a wise, brave, witty guide to fairy‑tale history. The Lost Princess demonstrates that smart, resourceful heroines abound in the French tales of past centuries. The brilliant women who wrote those tales challenged patriarchal norms in ways that continue to resonate today.”—Jennifer Schacker, author of National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth‑Century England
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2023 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 color plates, 29 halftones
90 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-769-8 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Way Makers
An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking
Edited by Kerri Andrews
“From the eighteenth century to the present day, and taking in poetry, letters, diaries, novels and more, this anthology traces the long tradition of women writing about walking. Among the many writers included are Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Raynor Winn, Cheryl Strayed, Sarah Moss, and Polly Atkin.”—Bookseller
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2023 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2
91 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-787-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Women Writing War
Ireland 1880-1922
Edited by Tina O’Toole, Gillian McIntosh, and Muireann O’Cinneide
Women’s literary expressions of war have long been neglected and at times forgotten in Irish scholarship. In Women Writing War: Ireland 1880–1922 many of these forgotten women are revealed through their writings as culturally active and deeply invested in the political and military struggles of their turbulent times.
Distributed for University College Dublin Press
2023 250 p. 6.14 x 9.21
92 Paper ISBN: 978-1-910820-11-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Environmental Futures
An International Literary Anthology
Edited by Caren Irr, et al.
“This book is a winner. There’s nothing like it currently available for readers and instructors—nothing even close. It provides a range of texts never before available in English and puts these in dialogue with ones which have been available.”—Imre Szeman, director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability, University of Toronto Scarborough
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2024 360 p. 6 x 9
93 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-212-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Folklore of Wales
Ghosts
Delyth Badder and Mark Norman
“This excellent book brings much that is new to the study of ghostlore in Britain. Its new translations of invaluable source material previously little known to non‑Welsh speakers have the welcome effect also of giving us a much more accurate regional picture than previous rather vague and unhelpful references to ‘in Wales.’”—Paul Cowdell, folklorist
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2024 232 p. 5.43 x 8.5 10 halftones
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Enchanted Wales
Myth and Magic in Welsh Storytelling
Miranda Aldhouse-Green
“The Welsh mythical tales, first written down by clerics in the Middle Ages, preserve vivid narratives told and retold by travelling storytellers over many centuries before. In this delightful book, the author explains the cultural and social background from which the stories come, going back to the Roman period and the Iron Age.”—Barry Cunliffe, author of The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
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2024 168 p. 5.43 x 8.5 10 halftones
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Return to My Trees
Notes from the Welsh Woodlands
Matthew Yeomans
“An informed and affable guide to Welsh nature and history.”—Kirkus
“Walking 36 miles through the Welsh countryside, [Yeomans] considers a proposed new national forest, which is designed to help tackle climate change, boost biodiversity and promote nature tourism.”
The New York Times
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2023 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2
96 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-915279-14-9 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
Chaucer’s Italy
Richard Owen
“Owen performs the remarkable feat of showing us Italy through Chaucer’s eyes. It’s a wonderful evocation of the vibrant intellectual, commercial and cross‑cultural exchanges at the height of the Middle Ages—and the perfect read for a getaway break to Florence, Genoa or Milan.”—Ross King, author of The Bookseller of Florence Armchair Traveller
Distributed for Haus Publishing 2023 216 p. 5 x 73/4 1 map
97 Paper ISBN: 978-1-914982-04-0 $17.95 Your Price: $12.56
Hardy’s Wessex
The Landscapes that Inspired a Writer
Harriet Still
Uniting beautiful landscape imagery with a selection of personal items from internationally acclaimed writer Thomas Hardy’s (1840–1928) life, this book presents the man behind the literature, exploring the impact that Wessex had on Hardy’s works and how living there shaped his views on the often divisive social issues of the period.
Distributed for Paul Holberton Publishing 2022 60 p. 81/4 x 81/4 50 color plates
98 Paper ISBN: 978-1-913645-21-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
The Avant-Postman
Experiment in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce
David Vichnar
Explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing from France, Britain, and the United States. David Vichnar draws genealogical lines through the work of more than fifty writers up to very recent years, including William Burroughs, B. S. Johnson, Ian Sinclair, Kathy Acker, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others.
Distributed for Karolinum Press
2024 806 p. 61/2 x 91/4
99 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-4937-5 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Last Syrian
Omar Youssef Souleimane
A rare narrative of gay love in the Arab world that travels into the lives of a group of spirited youth during the Syrian Revolution. With intense, poetic prose, Omar Youssef Souleimane brilliantly captures the indomitable yearning for freedom that, despite all obstacles and set backs, always survives in a hopeful person’s heart until it’s attained.
The Pride List
2024 172 p. 6 x 9
100 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-80309-344-4 $21.00 Your Price: $14.70
Letters around a Garden
Rainer Maria Rilke
An intimate glimpse into the life and letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most important poets of the twen tieth century.
The French List
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2024 96 p. 5 x 8 3 halftones
101 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-80309-334-5 $12.00 Your Price: $8.40
War Primer
Alexander Kluge
A profound exploration of the enduring impact of war in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Blending simple stories with multimedia and reflecting on human responses and hope, Alexander Kluge does not aim to take sides nor make an appeal. Rather, he is concerned with what he calls “mole war,” the tenacious and often subterranean survival of war—what war makes of people and what life of its own it is capable of.
The German List
2024 136 p. 6 x 9 43 color plates
102 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-80309-395-6 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
Literature from Seagull Books
Kafka’s Son
Szilárd Borbély
“Kafka’s tortured relationship with his father is well known to the author’s readers, but Borbély adds to the lore by exploring the limits of how much anyone can understand another, whether a father and son, or a read er and writer, as Mulzet suggests in an illuminating after word about Borbély’s long‑held identification with Kafka. Kafka fans will enjoy this.”—Publishers Weekly
The Hungarian List 2023 184 p. 6 x 9 1 map
103 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-80309-268-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Animals
Eight Studies for Experts
Eva
Menasse
“Interested in the silenced feelings of isolation, frustra tion, and anger experienced by individuals entangled in close family relationships, the short stories collected in Animals explore histories that are both personal and his torical.”—Foreword Reviews
The German List 2024 312 p. 6 x 9
104 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-80309-262-1 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Pinocchio
The Adventures of a Puppet, Doubly Commented Upon and Triply Illustrated
Giorgio Agamben
In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philoso pher’s eye to the famous nineteenth century novel by Carlo Collodi. Richly illustrated with images from three early editions of Collodi’s novel, this new volume will delight enthusiasts of both literature and philosophy.
The Italian List
2023 212 p. 6 x 71/2 56 color plates
105 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-80309-138-9 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Nothing Vast
A Novel
Moshe Zvi Marvit
A sweeping multigenerational tale complicates tradition al narratives as it follows two families—one Moroccan, one Polish—filled with Zionists, anti Zionists, socialists, and reactionaries. Visceral, intellectual, and searching, Nothing Vast is nothing short of a virtuosic debut.
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2024 224 p. 6 x 9 4 maps
106 Paper ISBN: 978-1-946724-79-3 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Leonard Cohen: A Novel
Jeffrey Lewis
The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would be artist, a would be lover, a would be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake.
Distributed for Haus Publishing
2024 156 p. 5.43 x 8.5
107 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-92-0 $22.95 Your Price: $16.06
Small Altars
Justin Gardiner
“It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book as raw and honest, as staggeringly, shatteringly sad, and, too, as wise and life‑affirming. With Small Altars, Justin Gardiner offers his late brother, himself, and all of us that great gift of attention, the hero’s favor of grace.”
—Joe Wilkins, author of Fall Back Down When I Die and When We Were Birds
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2024 70 p. 5 x 8
108 Paper ISBN: 978-1-961209-06-0 $21.95 Your Price: $15.36
On the Way to the End of the World
A Novel
Adrianne Harun
“[A] masterful microcosm of loneliness, loss, and cour age. . . Harun’s spellbinding storytelling perfectly evokes both the menace and magic of human connection.”
Booklist, starred review
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2023
248 p. 6 x 9
109 Paper ISBN: 978-1-946724-65-6 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]
Craig Santos Perez
Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry
“Perez’s ongoing project is one of the longest‑running and most rewarding literary engagements with Pacific Islander and Indigenous poetics of the twenty‑first century.”—Booklist, starred review
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2023 148 p. 6 x 9
110 Paper ISBN: 978-1-63243-118-9 $22.95 Your Price: $16.06
Glitter Road
January Gill O’Neil
“These poems memorably navigate the braiding of love, tragedy, resilience, and parenthood.”—Publishers Weekly
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2024 96 p. 6 x 9
111 Paper ISBN: 978-1-960327-01-7 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
The Poems
Robert Walser
This first collection of Walter Benjamin’s poems in English translation allows English speaking readers to experience the author as he saw himself at the beginning and the end of his literary career—as a poet.
The Swiss List
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2022 412 p. 6 x 9
112 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-80309-069-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Pilgrims 2.0
A Novel
Lindsey Harding
“Harding’s debut novel sets an unsettling mood from the start, with short chapters that propel the story along. The inclusion of multiple characters’ perspectives gives a full picture of good intentions, deep sadness, and even some less‑than‑noble motives. Book clubs may find much to discuss about the nature of our relationships with our selves and others and the dissonance between improved physical appearance and contentment.”—Booklist
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2023 396 p. 6 x 9
113 Paper
ISBN: 978-1-946724-69-4 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Coriolanus
William Shakespeare
2024 130 p. 5 x 73/4
114 Paper ISBN: 978-0-86698-682-3 $9.95 Your Price: $6.96
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare
2024 130 p. 5 x 73/4
115 Paper ISBN: 978-0-86698-833-9 $9.95 Your Price: $6.96
All’s Well That End’s Well
William Shakespeare
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