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Bitter Kalli

Mounted

Joining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image c…

Mary Coughlan

Life Stories

Paul Cornell

The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s

The Avengers was thecomic book of the 1970s. From Civil Rights to Women's Lib, battles for the soul of America became battles between super heroes.Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby co-created the all-…

Garrett Eisler

Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest

A critical and historical study of Ben Hecht's forgotten controversial plays championing Jewish causes during the World War II era. Includes the full texts of four works - We Will Never Die (1943),A Jewis…

Anna Shechtman

The Riddles of the Sphinx

"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."---New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confession…

Stuart Moore

Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic

Doctor Strange, one of Marvel's most fascinating early characters, began at the hands of co-creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and his ethereal voyages through other dimensions made him an important figur…

Jenseits der Deiche - Die internationale Vielfalt der Interkulturellen Germanistik

Ausgrenzungspraktiken, Inklusionsverfahren und Polarisierung sind Gegenstände gesellschaftlicher Diskussionen und medialer Auseinandersetzungen, aber auch Unterrichtsstoff in Schulen. Die Dynamiken von Öf…

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic

"How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic chronicles experiences of disabled and chronically-ill people in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking wide-ranging themes: incarceration, low wage an…

Chris Ryall

Daredevil: Born Again

In Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil: Born Again , the comic's titular hero has his life destroyed after his most menacing enemy learns his real identity. His attempts to rebuild his life an…

Richard W Etulain

Basques of the American West

Basques of the American West: New and Collected Essays on History and Ethnicity brings together new and previously published work by Richard W. Etulain, blending historical analysis and literary criticism…

Lyta Gold

Dangerous Fictions

"Fictional stories have long been imagined to hold an uncanny power over hearts and minds. These days, everybody frets about fiction: according to the National Coalition Against Censorship, the curre…

Verheißung und Verlust

Der Band fragt nach dem Verhältnis des aus der Reformation hervorgegangenen Protestantismus zum geistesgeschichtlichen Impuls der Romantik und bietet zugleich weiterführende Reflexionen zur Rolle der Reli…

Mel Stanfill

Fandom Is Ugly

"In theory, fans are people who love something, so why, across cases from comic books to TV shows to YouTube to politicians to fan fiction, do fans engage in large-scale social media harassment to ex…

Jesse Kavadlo

Rock of Pages

Identifies how "dangerous" 1980s heavy metal can be analyzed through literary criticism, how heavy metal helps us understand what's dangerous about literature, and why metal music matters.

Andrea Horbinski

Manga's First Century

"Manga are big. And in the growing field of manga studies, Andrea Horbinski's work is a standout. With years of deep research, rich new insights, and sparkling prose, Manga's First Century will delig…

Michael Thomas

The Broken King

From Reconstruction, to Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and beloved, trauma and recovery, race and de-racination in a beautifully unique memoir.

Brian Duff

Restaurant

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the last few decades, restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural presenc…

Christopher Booker

The Seven Basic Plots

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world.Using a wealth of examples, from …

Annette Wannamaker

How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist

On the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianism Children's author Philip Pullman famously said that "There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fic…