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Myka Tucker-Abramson
Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

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Jean Giono,
Fragments of a Paradise

"Giono's prose is a singularly fine blend of realism and poetic sensibility." -- The Washington Post Giono's very own Moby-Dick, a sensational maritime journey that follows a crew inwards on a spiritual t…

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Ira Nadel
The American Sentence

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and …

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Ira Nadel
The American Sentence

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and …

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Siddhartha Deb
The Light at the End of the World

"Delhi, the near future: a former journalist goes in search of answers after she finds herself stripped of identity and citizenship and thrust into a vast conspiracy involving secret detention centers, go…

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Antoine Laurain,
The President's Hat

This international bestseller is a charming "fable of romance and redemption" about an unsuspecting accountant who happens upon the life-changing power of a rather special hat (Telegraph) "As entertaining…

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Virginie Despentes,
Dear Dickhead

A New Yorker best book of 2024 | A Financial Times Best Translated Book of 2024 Library Science September book club pick | A Vulture most anticipated book One of The New York Times' 24 works of fiction t…

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Ryan Topper
Animist Poetics

"Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis"--

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Paul Tenngart
The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

"Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture"--

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Emily Horton
21st-Century British Gothic

In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the mons…

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David Ben-Merre
O

Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of "O" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more so, of writing. In poetry circles, "O" is commonly associated with apostrophe--a dramatized tu…

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Isabelle Graw
Fear and Money

An intense inner monologue that captures the various manifestations and effects of fear in relation to money or the lack of it. In this fictional work by author and art historian Isabelle Graw, fear inde…

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Danielle Mariann Dove
Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction

"Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is the first full-length study to investigate and attend to the deeply suggestive and highly symbolic iterations of Victorian women's dress in the conte…

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Siri Hustvedt
What I Loved

Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the arti…

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Svetlana Satchkova
The Undead

In this gripping tale of contemporary Russia, a young film-maker and her friends run afoul of the government and its ruthless oppression of artists who dare to satirize the regime ... When Maya, a young …

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Marie Ndiaye,
Vengeance Is Mine

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dre…

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Sylvain Trudel,
The Harmattan Winds

“A fresh little novel, teeming with life, of uncommon strength.” – Gilles Marcotte, L’actualité An audacious and playful debut novel of adventure, brotherhood, and the search for a homeland — a contempor…

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Javier Serena,
Attila

From the author of Last Words on Earth—an reimagining of Roberto Bolaño’s life—comes a book articulating the final years of Aliocha Coll, one of Spain’s most innovative writers as he completes his masterp…

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Natasha Brown
Universality

"Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar. An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surroundi…

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Alex Kovacs
Sexology

The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growinginto a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of anunconventional childhoo…

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