Dream State

Dream State

“Dream State is a delight…An exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love.” —Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner and author of Absolution Cece is in love. She has […]


The Ill-Fitting Skin

The Ill-Fitting Skin

Winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction The Ill-Fitting Skin is layered with surreal story telling but remains an extraordinarily realistic read, in the sense that even the […]


A Window That Can Neither Open Nor Close

A Window That Can Neither Open Nor Close

An intimate and kaleidoscopic entry in the Multiverse series that excavates survival, storytelling, and coming to terms with an unruly mind. In A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close, the stakes of writing […]


Waders

Waders

This book is made up of fifteen poems that Andrew Motion has written since moving from England to the United States in 2015. It is full of the shock and […]


Late Romance: Anthony Hecht―A Poet’s Life

Late Romance: Anthony Hecht―A Poet’s Life

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America’s greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognized as a master of formal verse that drew on wide-ranging cultural and literary […]


The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

Elegy is among the world’s oldest forms of literature: a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly […]


Music and Human Flourishing (The Humanities and Human Flourishing)

Music and Human Flourishing (The Humanities and Human Flourishing)

It has long been accepted that participating in music, either as a performer, listener, or composer, can contribute to human happiness and well-being. This volume, part of The Humanities and Human […]


A Person of Interest

A Person of Interest

A compelling story of a mad bomber, a suspect scientist, and paranoia in the age of terror from the National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercise and Flashlight Professor Lee, an Asian-born mathematician […]


Descent

Descent

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women’s Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in […]


What’s Hanging on the Hush

What’s Hanging on the Hush

Poetry. Women’s Studies. WHAT’S HANGING ON THE HUSH wrestles with concerns that range from race, gender and sexuality to loneliness, madness and grief, and nothing escapes questioning, least of all […]