Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

The author reflects upon her own creative process, attempting to answer the question, ""Why do you write?""  Read More >>

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Nature's ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river,...  Read More >>

Under a Future Sky is a collection of poems that gives voice to the intergenerational impact left by WWII Japanese...  Read More >>

Over sixty years of poems celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth and twenty-first century American...  Read More >>

""A formally ambitious second collection calculating the cost of evolution and survival""--  Read More >>

A riveting new play on the extraordinary love, art, and resistance of gender pioneers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore...  Read More >>

Selected by editor Mary Dalton, the 2026 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing...  Read More >>

""A superb collection of national thinkers, crackling with insight on the issues of the age.""-Chatelaine Selected...  Read More >>

Mothering always comes at a price, paid by women regardless of their means. ""Daniela Rea's Fruto is a calm room...  Read More >>

A new poetic form from National Book Award finalist Fiston Mwanza Mujila, lauded author of novels Tram 83 and The...  Read More >>

As past and future blur, this work from Alexander Kluge reveals the emotional and intellectual currents that drive...  Read More >>

These newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at...  Read More >>

Like most progressive Southerners, Hal Crowther is decidedly angry about current social and political events, but...  Read More >>

A collection of poems on sexuality, love, heartbreak and healing from viral poet and TikTok sensation @isabelladortapoetry444....  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

The first edited essay collection of its kind to focus on innovators and innovations in the mass-market press from...  Read More >>

Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day  Read More >>

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>