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.
Contributions by Coral Bracho, Akiko Busch, Ashley Dawson, Forrest Gander, Kulvinder Kaur Dhew, Brenda Hillman, Maya Khosla, Lenore Manderson, Will McGrath, José-Luis Moctezuma, Zoe Nyssa, Ailsa Piper, Elizabeth Rush, Cole Swensen, Arthur Sze, Wendy Woodson, Atul Bhalla, Samuel Gregoire and Colin Channer
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.
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.
Edited by David Schaafsma, Lauren DeJulio Bell and Roxanne Pilat
Contributions by Samira Ahmed, Dhana-Marie Branton, Anne Calcagno, Ana Castillo, Maxine Chernoff, Shelly M. Conner, Stuart Dybek, Saja Elshareif, Emil Ferris, Jessie Ann Foley, Charles Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, Daiva Markelis, James McManus, David Mura, Nnedi Okorafor, Christian Picciolini, Tony Romano, Erika Sánchez, George Saunders and Luis Alberto Urrea
Foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea
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?
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.
Contributions by Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, Gaspar de Carvajal, Jean de Léry, José de Acosta, Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca, Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, André Joao Antonil, Father Jacinto Morán de Butrón, Georges Louis Le Clerc, José Martín Félix de Árrate y Acosta, Francisco Javier de Clavijero, Juan Ignacio Molina, Simón Bolívar, Andrés Bello, Simón Rodríguez, Johann Rudolf Rengger, José María Heredia y Heredia, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Domingo F. Sarmiento, José María Samper, José Martí, Baldomero Lillo, Horacio Quiroga, José Eustasio Rivera, César Uribe Piedrahita, Juan Marín, Graciliano Ramos, Ramón Amaya Amador, Julián del Casal, Rafael Barrett, Manuel González Prada, Pierre Quiroule, Oswald de Andrade, Rubén Darío, Alfonsina Storni, María Luis Bombal, Pablo Neruda, Juan Rulfo, Lydia Cabrera, José María Arguedas, Esteban Montejo, Clarice Lispector, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Rigoberta Menchú, Chico Mendes, Octavio Paz, Juan Carlos Galeano, Fernando Contreras Castro, Gioconda Belli, Subcommandant Marcos, Eduardo del Llano, Esthela Calderón, Homero Aridjis, José Emilio Pacheco, Mayra Montero, Jaime Huenún, Samanta Schweblin, Berta Cáceres, Pope Francis and Eduardo Chirinos
Translated by J.M. Cohen, Nina M. Scott, Sandra Ferdman, Bertram T. Lee, Janet Whatley, Frances M. López-Morillas, Delia Goetz, Sylvanus G. Morley, Grady C. Wray, Harold V. Livermore, Paul J. Kaveney, Timothy Coates, Frederick H. Fornoff, Elizabeth Kieffer, G. J. Racz, Kathleen Ross, Esther Allen, Steven Dolph, J. David Danielson, John Charles Chasteen, Patricia González, Ralph Edward Dimmick, Arthur Dixon, Leslie Bary, Andrew Hurley, Greg Simon, Steven F. White, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Lucia Cunningham, Richard Cunningham, Jack Schmitt, Ilan Stavans, Harold Augenbraum, Frances Horning Barraclough, W. Nick Hill, Idra Novey, Charles A. Perrone, Ann Wright, Chris Whitehouse, Anthony Stanton, James Kimbrell, Rebecca Morgan, Rose Schreiber-Stainthorp, George McWhirter, Margaret Sayers Pedan, Edith Grossman, John Bierhorst and Megan McDowell
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.
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 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.
