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August Strindberg's Married Life (also published as Getting Married) experimented with the classic novel before the world was ready for experimental writing. One week after it first published in 1884, Strindberg was prosecuted for blasphemy against God. Married Life comprises of a number of short stories describing marriage of every possibility and their corresponding horrors. If this were a self-help book it'd advise everyone run from commitm...

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After a quarrel, an ageing lawyer leaves his wife and travels from Brasília to the dry, lawless backlands of Brazil's northeastern plateau, where he grew up. He has vague plans to start a new life, to buy a ranch and farm cotton, but unresolved childhood obsessions, fantasies, traumas resurface, threatening to overwhelm his very sense of identity. Consumed with thoughts of revenge against the man who murdered his father when he was only two, h...

This monograph on the English modernist Wyndham Lewis examines the eccentric's life and art. Primarily focused on his guiding aesthetic beliefs and the battles he waged against other artistic ideologies, Hugh Kenner's book analyzes Lewis' literary output and paintings not as a simple explanation for the viewer or reader but as an extension of Vorticist's polemics and Kenner's own philosophy of art.

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A new collection of poems from the American poet Tennessee Reed. From "California Burning 2017-2018" Will smoke days become the West's new snow days? When an early morning dagger of red light cuts through my curtains I think of what I want to save in case I have to evacuate

A new collection of poems from the American author, poet, and playwright Ishmael Reed.The poems in this new collection from Ishmael Reed were written between 2007 and 2020. They range from poems based on events that occurred around Reed's house to cataclysmic space events. Some of the poems were commissioned. "Moving Richmond" was part of a public art installation created by Mildred Howard. The poem, in huge letters forged into weathering stee...

The EU Prize-winning novel from Montenegrin author Aleksandr Becanovic.

A novel by the Bosnian writer Tanja Stupar Trifunovic.

A novel from the Slovenian author Drajo Jancar.

In this, Esad Babacic's first book of poetry to appear in English, we have a very different and surprising voice emerging from Slovenia. The closest parallel is the poetry, as much as the attitude, of Charles Bukowski. It's the voice of the streets and it's a demotic voice, purged of the sense of the "beautiful." It could be described as jagged and rough, but done purposely to release poetry from well-worn traditional forms and style. his is a...

Review of Contemporary FictionSpring 2014 Vol. XXXIV, #1 Novel-Writing Playwrights and Playwriting Novelists. The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization. The Review's aesthetic focus has been called many things-postmodern, experimental, avant-garde, metafictional, subversive-but in bringing this aesthetic to a wider audienc...

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. Chernobyl, the acclaimed HBO miniseries (winner of ten Emmy Awards and two Gold...

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