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Literary Criticism

Sea Life

Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"

King Richard J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones

Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...

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Poetry

Lucky Wreck Poems

Limon Ada

ISBN: PB: 9781938769801, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in Lucky Wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation,...

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Fiction

The French List

Red Scarf Followed by "Two Stages" and Additional Notes

Bonnefoy Yves

ISBN: HB: 9780857427380, Seagull Books, March 2021
208 pp., 19.6x13.9 cm

In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 93, Yves Bonnefoy concluded what was to be his last major text in prose, L'echarpe rouge, translated here as The Red Scarf. In this unique book, described by the poet as "an anamnesis" – a f...

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Literary Criticism

The India List

"Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man" and Other Stories

Kire Easterine

ISBN: HB: 9780857426185, Seagull Books, March 2021
136 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates

In Easterine Kire's stories, the boundaries between magic and reality drift away, leaving us to marvel at simple yet fantastical folktales about human connection. The title story in this collection is about feeling trapped by other people's definitio...

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The Italian List

Secret Germany Myth in Twentieth-Century German Culture

Jesi Furio

ISBN: HB: 9780857424815, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into eve...

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Literary Criticism

The Italian List

Time and Festivity

Jesi Furio

ISBN: HB: 9780857426307, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the time of his early death in 1980, he had accumulated a body of work that astonishes with its abundance and...

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Fiction

Yankinton

Shihor Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780857427960, Seagull Books, March 2021
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Set in the early days of the Jewish state, "Yankinton" tells the stories of refugees from the Holocaust and antisemitism who struggled to build new lives in Israel. Through the eyes of a young Orthodox Jewish girl growing up in Tel Aviv, we watch a c...

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The German List

All the Roads Are Open The Afghan Journey

Schwarzenbach Annemarie

ISBN: PB: 9780857428226, Seagull Books, March 2021
124 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by wha...

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Poetry

The Swiss List

Collected Poems

Brambach Rainer

ISBN: PB: 9780857428370, ISBN: HB: 9780857421715, Seagull Books, March 2021
164 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left s...

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The German List

Dark Ship

Fatah Sherko

ISBN: PB: 9780857428394, ISBN: HB: 9780857420367, Seagull Books, March 2021
520 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's "The Dark Ship", we experience an extraordinary new voice i...

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