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The Crooked Mirror
This anthology brings together key plays from the Crooked Mirror, a leading Silver Age Russian cabaret, with short biographies of their authors and robust commentary and annotations to trace the theater’s artistic and ideological evolution.
Water's Edge
An anthology of creative nonfiction and poetry, Water’s Edge includes selections from a diverse international group of writers, artists, biologists, geologists, critics, actors, and anthropologists.
Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City
This novel chronicles a wealthy, eccentric family with an ancient presence in northern Ecuador. Bruna's past is dominated by ghosts and scandals that linger in the old family home in the mountains.
Growing Up Chicago
Second to None: Chicago Stories
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?
Once I Was Cool
Once I Was Cool contrasts past aspirations with the mess and magic of the present. Maturity is demanding, but its rewards are a gift.
The Monster I Am Today
Writer and musician Kevin Simmonds explores Leontyne Price as an icon, a diva, a woman, and a patriot—and himself as a fan, a budding singer, and a gay man—through passages that move polyphonically through Black identity, Black sound, Black sensibility, and Black history.
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader
The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present.
Act Like You're Having a Good Time
In this honest and tender collection of essays, award‑winning memoirist Michele Weldon asks what it means to be a mature woman seeking to secure a life of purpose and meaning through work, family and relationships.
The Beast, and Other Tales
The Beast includes Jóusè d’Arbaud’s 1926 masterpiece “The Beast of Vacarés”—a haunting parable about a solitary bull-herder who stumbles upon a starving creature who is half-man, half-goat—and three other tales from the Camargue delta region in southern France.
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection of poems articulates the Black American history into a new language of “docu-poetry.”

The Crooked Mirror
Water's Edge
An anthology of creative nonfiction and poetry, Water’s Edge includes selections from a diverse international group of writers, artists, biologists, geologists, critics, actors, and anthropologists.
Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City
Growing Up Chicago
Second to None: Chicago Stories
Once I Was Cool
The Monster I Am Today
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader
The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present.
Act Like You're Having a Good Time
In this honest and tender collection of essays, award‑winning memoirist Michele Weldon asks what it means to be a mature woman seeking to secure a life of purpose and meaning through work, family and relationships.
The Beast, and Other Tales
The Beast includes Jóusè d’Arbaud’s 1926 masterpiece “The Beast of Vacarés”—a haunting parable about a solitary bull-herder who stumbles upon a starving creature who is half-man, half-goat—and three other tales from the Camargue delta region in southern France.
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection of poems articulates the Black American history into a new language of “docu-poetry.”