“This book puts the lie to the myth of academic freedom and that the university is an unabashed training ground for radicals.”—Richard Kahn, University of North Dakota“Essential reading for anyone con
Although Olga Orozco has won almost every major literary award from her native Argentina and her work has been translated into 15 languages, no single volume of her poetry exists in English—until now.
In this offbeat coming-of-age novel, a biracial narrator tells of growing up in rural America and later escaping to a new life in a city.Early on, the boy witnesses his father’s struggles with idealis
In this unflinching and suspenseful story, Gebler takes a small slice of Irish history and brings it to life. In 1854, land agent Thomas French is dispatched to County Monoghan to persuade tenants to
This book is a collection of eighteen lively, well-loved stories from the life of the Prophet Muhammad. They highlight the main stations of his life—from orphaned child to Prophet of God and beloved l
“Outstanding . . . tender, sexy and alarming.”—Jim CraceWhen Alfred White, patriarch of the White family, collapses at work, his wife, May, and their three disparate children find themselves confronti
Arab Society and Culture provides wide-ranging essays and supplementary readings that examine recent social and cultural change in Arab societies.From investigations of consumerism and Islam on the In
This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of the contemporary debates within political Islam, providing an in-depth analysis of the specific movements, countries and regions in the Arab world and
An eyewitness account of 1977 by one of the only journalists allowed full access to the bands. This is the true story of punk ? how it really felt and what happened ? and how John Lydon, Hugh Cornwell
Shuck is the intense, dazzling diary of Jaeven Marshall, a quasi-homeless hustler who seeks his fame and fortune in New York, where he tries to manage his reputation as the city's porn star du jour wh
For in that realm of scorpion and snake his soul cried out and the woman came fashioned from light and veiled in rain. He followed a god through desert wastes. From "Peyote Villanelle". Annotatio
While he was Poet Laureate of the United States (1990-91), Mark Strand selected this book for publication with special funds administered by the National Endowment for the Arts, saying, "No first book
Enriched by his own world travels, Cassells draws with equal ease from Greek mythology, children's rhymes, and African-American oral traditions. The result is an hypnotic and rhapsodic interweaving of
Probing the local genius as expressed in history and customs, Swenson absorbs the anguish of colonization and dictatorship to reveal ordinary people and events with a sardonic humor, pathos and hope.
Open Papers is the primary statement on his art by Odysseas Elytis, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature, and a sweeping exploration of the mind and mythic imagination of one of the most origi
Armored Hearts, combining new poems and a selection from previous volumes, offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. "It is refreshing to read a poet who is not obliquely vague, who t
Savyon Liebrecht's intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best-selling writer in her native Israel. Her short fiction explores the everyday tragedies that emanate from strai
In the latest of his post-apartheid plays - The Captain's Tiger: A Memoir for the Stage - Athol Fugard sets out as a young seafarer and writer to begin The Great Novel - the exciting tales of his moth
