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The Boys' Club: The Many Worlds of Male Power

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Report copyright infringementby Martine Delvaux (Author), Katia Grubisic (Translator)Acclaimed Québec feminist Martine Delvaux turns her sharp eye and even sharper pen on the history of gentlemen's clubs and male fraternity in this wide-reaching study of patriarchy. Delvaux lays bare the brazen misogyny of boys' clubs across many fields, including politics, entertainment, technology, law enforcement, architecture, and the military. Examining popular media produced by men about men, The Boys' ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Washington (Editor)Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected, beautifully printed, conveniently portable, to have with you wherever and whenever you're in the mood for love.Author BiographyPeter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is th...

Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism

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Report copyright infringementby Jo Glanville (Editor)From medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to the far-right conspiracy theories animating present-day political discourse, it's clear that the belief that Jews are plotting against society never dies--it just adapts to suit the times. In eight illuminating essays from brilliant Jewish writers and thinkers, Looking for an Enemy offers an urgent, profound take on the experience of antisemitism and its historical con...

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament: An Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Victor H. Mair (Editor), Zhenjun Zhang (Editor)Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers. Including over 100 major pieces by...

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Report copyright infringementby Dante Alighieri (Author), Barbara Reynolds (Translator), Barbara Reynolds (Introduction by)A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry The La Vita Nuova is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary. The poems themselves tell the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through Dante's suff...

Influencers, Activistas Y Los Derechos de Las Mujeres: Una Publicación de El Divorcio En España

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Report copyright infringementby Carmen de Burgos Seguí (Author), Rebecca M. Bender (Editor), Slava Faybysh (Editor)Voices from the debate on women's rights in early-twentieth-century SpainThe newspaper columnist Carmen de Burgos Seguí caused a sensation in 1903 when she called for a public discussion on divorce, then illegal in Spain. The fierce debate that ensued among Spain's leading thinkers--politicians, academics, feminists, journalists, and others--is collected in El divorcio en España....

A Vuelo de Pájaro. Cuadernos / A Birds-Eye View

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Report copyright infringementby Marcela Serrano (Author)«Gracias a escritores como Marcela Serrano, la vida nunca dirá su última palabra. - Carlos Fuentes El ir y volver de los pájaros, las penas y risas de la vida a los setenta años, la renuncia a la pareja, las conversaciones con sus hermanas en pleno encierro, los cambios sociales de un país y un mundo enardecidos, los amigos que mueren, la feliz dedicación a un nieto, las relaciones entre los perros del campo donde vive, la deslumbrada le...

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Report copyright infringementby Claudia Piñeiro (Author)De lo íntimo a lo público: política, feminismo, compromiso, familia y literatura Por la ganadora de los premios Clarín, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y Dashiell Hammett, entre otros «Sospecho que lo que escribo nace del silencio. Porque así fue desde mi niñez, del silencio a la escritura. De la resistencia a hablar, al placer de construir un texto . Admirada por miles de lectores en todo el mundo, Claudia Piñeiro es, además de una prolí...

Periodismo Para La Historia / Journalism for the History Books

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Report copyright infringementby Julio Scherer García (Author)«El único sustantivo para definir a Julio es el de reportero. Como reportero vive, como reportero trabaja tiempo completo, como reportero hace y pierde amigos... Pocos reporteros son, en México, tan reporteros como este Julio Scherer de corazón abierto a la curiosidad. Ésa es su gran virtud, su cualidad sobresaliente, que tantos quisieran tranquilizarlo, aquietarlo, detenerlo: "Ya, don Julio, por favor, no pregunte más, no ave...

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Report copyright infringementby Jerald Walker (Author)*** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay**** ****Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor**** ****Finalist for the New England Book Award**** ****Longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award****In this engaging follow up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of PEN New England Award for nonfiction and finalist for the National Book Award sharply examines and explains Black...

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Salter (Author)A fascinating collection of some of the most significant, interesting, and groundbreaking letters ever written. The written word has the power to inspire, astonish, and entertain, as this collection of 100 letters that changed history will show. Ordered chronologically, the letters range from ink-inscribed tablets that vividly describe life in the Roman Empire to remarkable last wills and testaments, passionate outpourings of love and despa...

Erasing Frankenstein: Remaking the Monster, a Public Humanities Prison Arts Project

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Effinger (Editor)Who gets to write poetry? Whose voices are made public? Whose voices are heeded? Erasing Frankenstein showcases a creative exchange between federally incarcerated women and members of the prison education think tank Walls to Bridges Collective at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario, and graduate and undergraduate students from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Working collaboratively by long-dis...

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Report copyright infringementby John Zheng (Editor), Jon Parrish Peede (Editor)Author BiographyJohn Zheng is professor of English and chair of the Mississippi Valley State University department of English & Foreign Languages. He is the editor of six books including THE OTHER WORLD OF RICHARD WRIGHT and CONVERSATIONS WITH DANA GIOIA. Zheng also edits the Journal of Ethnic American Literature. Jon Parrish Peede is president of Ashland University and Ashland Theological Seminary. He is the f...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwidge Danticat (Author)A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding them...

The Intellectual Situation: The Best of N+1's Second Decade

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Krotov (Editor), Nikil Saval (Editor), Dayna Tortorici (Editor)A collection of essays, fiction, and criticism from the second decade of the US's premier intellectual magazine, edited by Mark Krotov, Nikil Saval, and Dayna Tortoricin+1 was founded in 2004 as a little magazine with big ambitions that would treat literature, culture, and politics as inextricable concerns. Within a decade, it went from a pipe dream in a Brooklyn apartment to "the bellwether of...

New Inventions and the Latest Innovations

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Report copyright infringementby Gaston de Pawlowski (Author), Doug Skinner (Introduction by), Amanda DeMarco (Translator)Satirical yet prophetical advertisements for imaginary new products, influential to Marcel Duchamp and Francis PicabiaOriginally published in book form in 1916, this volume of French author Gaston de Pawlowski's (1874-1933) writings, New Inventions and the Latest Innovations, collects the humorist's fictional columns mocking his era's burgeoning consumerism and growing fait...

Why Not?: Thinking about Singapore's Tomorrow

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Margaret (Author)What is the society you want to see take shape in Singapore in the years ahead? How can we ensure it will be a society where there is gender equality, where every person can live the life they want? A diverse group of writers -- women and men, teenagers and octogenarians, artists. academics, caregivers, journalists, doctors, lawyers, and many others -- offer their thoughts about these questions and more, their vision of the ideal Singapo...

Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California

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Report copyright infringementby Carribean Fragoza (Author), Romeo Guzman (Author), Samine Joudat (Author)A collection of literary essays about California from some of the state's most established, and most exciting upcoming writers. Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California explores California through twenty-five essays that look beyond the clichés of the "California Dream," portraying a state that is deviant and recalcitrant, proud and humble, joyful and communal. It i...

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Report copyright infringementby Rosa Montero (Author)El nuevo libro de Rosa Montero, Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas La realidad convertida en la mejor literatura «Por la creación de un universo personal, cuya temática refleja sus compromisos vitales y existenciales, que ha sido calificado como la ética de la esperanza . Jurado del Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas «Una cree entrever por un momento, como bajo el latigazo de un relámpago, el trasfondo de lo real . La mata...

Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea

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Report copyright infringementby David Konstan (Author)What does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is widely supposed that the proper response to a work of art is one of objective contemplation. At its core, then, beauty is a contested concept, and both sides feel comfortable appealing to the authority of Plato, and via him, to the ancient Greeks generally. So, who ...

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Report copyright infringementby Amelia Diaz Ettinger (Author)Ettinger's poems chronicle the plight of birds in a changing world with all the grief and hope that entails. As she shares her encounters with birds she connects us to nature and reflects some of our most vulnerable human qualities.Author BiographyAmelia Díaz Ettinger is the author of four previous books of poetry: Self Dissection (The Poetry Box), Learning to Love a Western Sky (Airlie Press), Speaking at a Time /Hablando a la Vez ...

Cartas a Clara: Letters to Clara, Spanish Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Rulfo (Author), Alberto Vital (Foreword by)A vulnerable portrait of the Mexican author, as unveiled through letters penned to his beloved Published with Fundacion Juan Rulfo.In January 1945 the Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer Juan Rulfo (1917-86) wrote: "I don't know what is going on inside me, but every moment I feel that there is something great and noble to fight for and to live for. That something great, for me, is you." This profound dec...

Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Fanelli (Editor), Joe Kraus (Editor)In Currents in the Electric City, an installment of Belt's City Anthologies series, the story of Scranton gets told by the people who know it best. Scranton, PA, is more than just the setting for The Office. It's a living city, one with a rich industrial and labor history, that also has a small-town feel. Who is considered "from Scranton" is fiercely guarded even as the city sees immigration from around the world. Neigh...

Environmental Futures: An International Literary Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Caren Irr (Editor), Anik Chartrand (Editor), Kurt Cavander (Editor)A global anthology, curated by experts from around the world, draws on fiction and poetry to examine environmental challenges and their implications for communities. Featuring short stories, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction from around the world, this anthology showcases contemporary literature to envision the future of the environment. While environmental literature written in English ha...

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Report copyright infringementby Stacey D'Erasmo (Author)The author of The Art of Intimacy asks eight legendary artists: What has sustained you in the long run? How do we keep doing this--making art? Stacey D'Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had published three novels when she asked herself this question. She was past the rush of her first books and wondering what to expect--how to stay alive in her vocation--in the decades ahead. She began to interview older artists she admired to...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Quartararo (Author)An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value is a fragmented book-length essay in which we see the city of Detroit through two distinct seasons: the summer Quartararo worked with a letterpress artist in a former veal locker, and the winter she lived on a dead end street slated for possible removal next to a defunct highway overpass. We see the city from the seat of her bicycle, from the #42 bus, and for miles on foot as she meditates ...

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by Barbara Kingsolver (Author)In twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world From the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small Wonder, a new collection of essays that begins with a parable gleaned from recent news: villagers search for a missing infant boy and find him, unharmed, in the cave of a dangerous bear that h...

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Report copyright infringementby Dipika Mukherjee (Author)Essays on literature, language, and global communities, through the lens of a modern Asian nomad Part travelogue, part memoir, and part commentary, Writer's Postcards is a collection of essays that examine imagination and culture through the lens of geography. A flaneuse and person of the world, Dipika Mukherjee takes readers through various encounters from her highly mobile life: the lugubrious literature of Brazil; the linguistic ...

Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives

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Report copyright infringementby Stanley Bill (Author), Simon Lewis (Author)The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795) was once the largest country in Europe--a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups. Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmakingin its descendent modern-day states, but also a source of contention between those with ...

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Report copyright infringementby Morgan Parker (Author)In her "witty and searing" first essay collection, award-winning poet Morgan Parker examines "the cultural legacy of Black womanhood and the meaning of finding 'well-being' in a world that wasn't built for you" (Vogue). "Riveting and deeply personal . . . filled with poignant insights."--CosmopolitanLAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Electric Lit, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews Dubbed a voice of her generatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Nell Irvin Painter (Author)2024 New York Times Notable Book of the Year Finalist: The 2025 PEN/Diamonstein-Speilvogel Award for the Art of the Essays "Painter puts muscle and heart into history so that her readers can easily, but thoughtfully, draw the lines between past and present. Her history is inclusive, not in a pandering or self-consciously correct way, but because her artful telling of it is full of complexity that's both beautiful and bracing." --Robin...

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Report copyright infringementby Andre Dubus (Author)During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked--at being a better worker and a better human being.In Ghost Dogs, Dubus's nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs...