Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. History & Politics. BARACK OBAMA: INVISIBLE MAN is a provocative examination of President Barack Obama and his legacy. Masciotra contends that
Poetry. Lyric or narrative in character, these poems are stitched through by the search for significance in the particular, whether at a train-station, draining a radiator, or eating chips, or on the
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Usha Kishore's third poetry collection, IMMIGRANT, is gleaned from nearly two decades of writing. This book examines the political, cultural and linguistic
Poetry. Exploring the desolate landscapes of urban isolation, the poems force examination of the very depths of ourselves, where love is manic and families desperate and tragic. Teenagers make out at
Poetry. Fiction. An epic for an age without heroes, DID YOU PUT THE WEASELS OUT? is a celebration of the modern mythology that takes place in every small town. A modern update of the 8th century Gaeli
Poetry. As if Catullus and Jarvis Cocker had conjoined with John Betjeman to pen catty, racy, brilliantly-rhyming poem-portraits of an age enthralled with gin, football, sex and surgery, Dhuga's debut
Poetry. Music. THE PASSAGE: POST-PUNK POETS celebrates the lyrics and artistry of Dick Witts, frontman of the Manchester Musicians Collective band The Passage. Collected here for the first time, the l
Poetry. PARIS, STAGE LEFT covers Kate Noakes' first five years in the City of Lights, in all its history, tragedy and comedy. Noakes arrived in Paris in 2011 to pursue a job opportunity, and her early
Literary Nonfiction. Politics. Biography. June 2016. The EU referendum campaign is in full swing. The Tory elite jostles for the leadership. It's a moment which Julius Caesar would have understood. Th
Poetry. FIGHT SONGS exposes the rusted underbelly of the American Midwest, as experienced by young men, brutal cops, suicide cases, junkies, lovers, and minorities seeking justice. At turns as stark a
Poetry. THE EVENING ENTERTAINMENT shifts back and forth through history — the personal and familial, and that of anonymous characters from recent and ancient past, going about the business of se
Poetry. FORTUNE COOKIE is Jenna Clake's debut collection. These poems deal with the everyday and ordinary: living with a partner, friendships, and chronic insomnia. At the same time, they contain conf
Poetry. WEEMOED is a Poetry Book Society recommendation for winter 2017. The Dutch word for melancholy, WEEMOED, could be read according to Vincent Van Gogh, as a combination of sadness and courage. I
Poetry. Music. In Mandy Kahn's wonderfully inventive and gloriously lyrical second collection, Béla Bartók treks into remote villages to record folk songs on the world's first phonograph, a
