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Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Lessons of Tragedy Statecraft and World Order

Brands Hal, Edel Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300251760, Yale University Press, April 2020
216 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and coura...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Henry David Thoreau A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season

Thoreau Henry David

ISBN: PB: 9780226624969, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each". Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passi...

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Poetry

Artaud the Momo and Other Major Poetry

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035802351, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
160 pp., 18.4x12 cm

"Artaud the Momo" is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an u...

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Fiction

Grace for Grace Stories

De Jarnatt Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781946724304, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Grace for Grace" brings celebrated cult filmmaker Steve De Jarnatt's distinctive voice and cinematic vision to the page. Lush inner lives, idiosyncratic syntax, and sweeping scale characterize these wildly imaginative stories, which present characte...

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Fiction

Nature of Remains

Eager Ginger

ISBN: PB: 9781936970643, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
478 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In the tiny town of Flyshoals, Georgia, karma is writ small enough to witness. When Doreen Swilley discovers that her boss, who is also her lover, intends to fire her in order to placate his dying wife, she devises a plan to steal his business from h...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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Poetry

BEIT

Green Eryn

ISBN: PB: 9781936970667, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
100 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm

Eryn Green's new collection of poetry "BEIT" is a lyric examination of the idea of home, and how it intersects with the essential human experiences of love, attachment, and loss. Filtered through a Hebrew sense of the letter Bet – the second letter o...

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Poetry

Insofar

Gridley Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781936970650, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
80 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm

"Insofar" is a collection of poems dedicated to analogical reasoning, seeking to remember basic terms of relation and proportion. Archival in mood, it works with and against the idea of an A–Z filing system. This alphabet is akin to a damaged rosary...

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Poetry

Scraping Away

Shaw Fred

ISBN: PB: 9781933880785, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this debut, full-length poetry collection, Fred Shaw offers a deep dive into the cost of service work. Scraping Away is a collection of narrative, sometimes elegiac poems that express the point of view of restaurant workers. Shaw considers the cos...

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Fiction

The German List

Unfinished

Jirgl Reinhard

ISBN: HB: 9780857427359, Seagull Books, April 2020
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Komotau, the Czech Republic, late summer, 1945. Four women – seventy-year-old Johanna, her two daughters Hanna and Maria, and Hanna's daughter Anna – are ordered by the new Czech authorities to leave their homes and assemble with other Germans at the...

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