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Black Theater, City Life
African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies
Macelle Mahala
“Mahala’s book moves beyond the microcosm of production history to the macrocosm of community, theater history, and American history.” —Harvey Young, coauthor of Black Theater is Black Life: An Oral History of Chicago Theater and Dance, 1970-2010 (Northwestern, 2014)

Four of the Three Musketeers
The Marx Brothers on Stage
Robert S. Bader
“As far as I’m concerned, the Marx Brothers practically invented comedy. And I love this great new book about them by Robert Bader!” —Jerry Seinfeld

The Idea of Indian Literature
Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method
Preetha Mani
“A must read for anyone interested in how national literature works in a multilingual nation.” —Francesca Orsini, author of The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism

Valor
Stories
Murathan Mungan
Translated by Aron Aji and David Gramling
Winner of the 2021 Global Humanities Translation Prize
“…in Valor Murathan Mungan refreshed the Turkish language drawing on the language of old Turkic tales and masters of modern Turkish radical fiction.” —Selim S. Kuru, University of Washington

Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production
Edited by Warren Montag and Audrey Wasser
“Audrey Wasser and Warren Montag prove the continued relevance of Macherey’s proposal in the context of French Marxism and its creative dialogue with psychoanalysis, the history of the sciences, and the critique of ideology.” —Bruno Bosteels, author of The Actuality of Communism
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