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Storycraft, Second Edition The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction

Hart Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780226736921, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of The Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft has become the definitive guide to crafting narrative...

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Poetry

In the Antarctic Circle

Sweeney Dennis James

ISBN: PB: 9781938769726, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection addresses issues of identity as two people find themselves living in an uncommon landscape. Through hybrid narrative prose poems, Hank and an unnamed narrator try to navigate their relationship and understand their identities amid a l...

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Literary Criticism

Infinitely Determinable Children and Childhood in Modern Literature

Giuriato Davide

ISBN: PB: 9783035803167, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Upon the "discovery of childhood", as named by Philippe Aries, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Subversive Simone Weil A Life in Five Ideas

Zaretsky Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226549330, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders", Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil tau...

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Jewish Studies

Jewish Decadence Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

Freedman Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226581088, ISBN: HB: 9780226580920, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and l...

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Poetry

"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture"

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035803648, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
108 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture" collects two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they...

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Contemporary Art

Aesthetics of the Commons

Sollfrank Cornelia, Stalder Felix, Niederberger Shusha

ISBN: PB: 9783035803457, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What do a feminist server, an art space located in a public park in North London, a so-called pirate library of high cultural value yet dubious legal status, and an art school that emphasizes collectivity have in common? They all demonstrate that art...

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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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Biography & Memoires

Ecology

Unnatural Selection A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness

Ross Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9781933880839, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Adopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two ecosystems: one was her tangible, adoptive family, the other her birth family, whose mysterious landscape was hidden from her. In this coming-of-age memoir, Ross narrates how in her early twenties,...

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Business & Economics

Varieties of Family Business Germany and the United States, Past and Present

Berghoff Hartmut, Kohler Ingo

ISBN: PB: 9783593512464, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 60 halftones, 30 tables, 20 figures

The idea of a business owned by a family and passed down from generation to generation sits firmly in our cultural imagination. And family businesses are of central importance in both Germany and in the United States. Still, there are significant dif...

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