This book describes a wild-land sojourn with woodstoves and ravens in the boreal forest on the Canadian north shore of Lake Superior, near Thunder ...

Word, Woman and Place is McCarthy's fourth collection of poetry. Selections from his earlier works are gathered together with recent poems into thi...

This is a collection of delightful tanka, in Japanese and English, by two poets experienced and skilled in the form. Saeko Ogi, whose primary langu...

His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep ...

Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, hi...

"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Thos...

Fisher Ames was a leading New England Federalist and sublime critic of Jacobin Democracy and the French Revolution. During the presidency of George...

Since his now famous appearance on the literary stage in 1968 novelist, playwright and poet Peter Handke has remained on the forefront of the liter...

This is a play for young people about six characters exploring their relationship to work, education, society and the influences/barriers to all of...

2014. Celia appears to be the woman who has it all -- a high-flying career, financial security and a picture-perfect family. But then a friend from...

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in w...

This translation of Thomas Bernhard's Der Weltverbesserer makes a contemporary masterpiece available to English language readers for the first time...

When Worsooz meets her estranged father Nick, her mother Alberta is immersed in a secret relationship with girlfriend Anne and building their plan ...

Izdryk's Wozzeck is one of the masterpieces of contemporary Ukrainian literature and a cult classic for the Ukrainian 1990s generation. Discerning ...

William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well" and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the American Scholar -- about writing, the arts, New Yor...

When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war mig...

In this unique book, Ray McGinnis offers us a new, deeper, and more meaningful way to explore and understand the Psalms. Vividly connecting us with...

Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issu...

We are in a mythical landscape on the banks of a mighty river. The Yorta Yorta know him as ‘Dhungula'. The white fellas call it ‘The Murray'. A cla...

Kenneth Mackay’s 19th century classic Australian novel comes to vivid life on the stage, in an epic saga of love, heroism and sacrifice. This is a ...

This book-length tanka collaboration, by Kathy Kituai and Amelia Fielden, explores the deep and sometimes uncanny relationships between our human e...

Yiddish literature and culture take a central position in Jewish literatures. They are shaped to a high degree, not least through migration, by enc...

During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make...

Is the learning that we need essentially different from the education that we receive?