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Ranjan Adiga
Diversity Quota

Complicating the idea of a single immigrant narrative, the stories in Diversity Quota move from the US to Nepal and back again, showing how displacement can lead to suffering or hope-sometimes simultaneou…

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David Delfs Erbo Andersen
Democratization in the Nordic World

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden enjoy some of the happiest populations and highest standards of living in the world, thanks in part to stable, democratic systems of government. Here, David Delfs Erbo Andersen…

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Fatma Aydemir
Djinns

After laboring in Germany for thirty years, Hüseyin uses his hard-earned savings to purchase a sunny and spacious flat in Istanbul, envisioning the joys of retirement in his home country with his wife, Em…

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Ian G. Baird
Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty

The Kingdom of Champassak was founded in 1713 in what is now southern Laos, and its royal lineage, the House of Champassak, continues to the present. In this first historical study of Champassak, Ian Bair…

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Dominik Barta,
Overheard

"Overheard is set in Vienna in the mid-2010s, a time of significant social change and political conflict, with tens of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees arriving and protests taking place over a c…

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Joe Baumann
A Thing Is Only Known When It Is Gone

"Backlit by the strange and surreal-hearts leaping into birdcages, whirlpools transporting swimmers across the globe, arms disappearing off of bodies in Florida-the twenty stories in A Thing Is Only …

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Dario Bellezza,
What Sex Is Death?

Selections from Invettive e licenze (1971), Morte segreta (1976), Libro d'amore (1982), io (1983), Serpenta (1987), Libro di poesia (1990), L'avversario (1994), and Proclama sul fascino (1996).

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Michael Berkowitz
Hollywood's Unofficial Film Corps

It has long been known that Hollywood was actively involved in shaping US public opinion during World War II. Less well documented are the ways in which Washington sought to work behind the scenes, subtly…

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Emily Bludworth de Barrios
Rich Wife

"The many roles and performances women negotiate compose the kaleidoscope of perspectives that ricochet throughout this vibrant collection. Exploring time, nostalgia, class, wealth, beauty, feminism,…

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Eliot Borenstein
The Politics of Fantasy

What happened when J. K. Rowling's mega-blockbuster--born in the United Kingdom and launched to global heights by Hollywood and the full force of Western marketing--came knocking on President Putin's door…

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Mark Borthwick
A Brave and Lovely Woman

Mamah Borthwick earned a master's degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early feminist movement, and traveled from the American prairie to Europ…

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Lesley Nicole Braun
Congo's Dancers

Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Among the various genres popular in the capital city of Kinshasa, C…

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Mitch Brown
Menander and the Birth of Domestic Drama

Although few of his plays exist in full today, the fourth-century BCE Greek dramatist Menander was known far and wide throughout antiquity. He was one of the first to locate his dramas in the common house…

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Anthony Bukoski
The Thief of Words

"The Thief of Words is filled with desperate runaways, the unhappily married, and the displaced. These characters often long for happiness but struggle to explain--even to themselves--what that would…

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Janet Burroway
Simone in Pieces

Readers first meet Simone Lerrante, a Belgian war orphan, as a child refugee in Sussex, England, her memory damaged by trauma. This novel offers a kaleidoscopic vision of her fractured life and piecemeal …

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Rebecca Carter-Chand
Christian Internationalism and German Belonging

Ever since the Salvation Army, a British Protestant social welfare organization, arrived in Germany in 1886, it has navigated overlapping national and international identities. After decades of existing o…

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Julie A. Cassiday
Russian Style

As the West liberalized its stance on sexuality and gender between 2000 and 2020, Vladimir Putin's Russia moved in the opposite direction, remolding the performance of Russian citizenship according to a n…

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Hedgie Choi
Salvage

Part blasphemous prayer, part stand-up comedy, wholly unique, this breathtaking collection is by turns devastating, funny, and startling. Whether the site of exploration is Star Trek, Leonard Cohen, roadk…

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Peter Munk Christiansen
Consensual Policy-Making in the Nordic World

Examines the model developed in the Scandinavian countries for handling labour market relations between employers and employees - a model that has secured flexible and well-functioning labour market relat…

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Corrie Decker
The Age of Sex

As in much of the world, societies in precolonial East Africa---what is today Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda---used rites of passage to chart an individual's social and developmental progress toward adulthoo…

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