Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garreta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and ex
Examine the work of five groundbreaking education theorists?John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky?in relation to early childhood. Theories of Childhood provides a b
"Caryl Churchill is a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing? a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the
"Miller is a name to watch."?The Independent"This is magical, lyrical, spellbinding writing."?GrantaAdamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica's last leper colonies. When Adamine grows up, she disco
A very special selection of impressive pieces by two hundred artists from forty-two countries. From those that look back to classic forms and materials to the most daring, experimental and surprising
Rough Honey is a miracle of a first collection. Melissa Stein's sensuous articulation of the world from the inside out puts her poems into a kind of freefall---back into a pulsing, primal language. He
A series of short, single-voice plays by writers based in the Northwest of England. These powerful, contemporary monologues share the struggles, courage, conflicts, and joyus of different characters
Winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award.?Matthew Dickman’s all-American poems are the epitome of the pleasure principle; as clever as they are, they refuse to have ulterior int
Winner of the prestigious American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, Laura McKee’s Uttermost Paradise Place achieves a shimmering transparency and surreal potency. While many of the poems are
The winner of the Hudson Prize, this collection of stories, mainly set in the Southwest, digs deep into the lives of its characters. Daniel Chac￠n's writing is very lucid and dips into Carveresque pl
A look at the lives of five young men, who, during the Vietnam era, start a commune in Australia-and a look at how young men often look to the wild to find themselves, and the consequences this somet
"A syncopated web that includes the personal within the metaphysical and the environmental, tying the individual's story to the story of the survival of the planet . . . she can also be funny, brave,
Born in Ankara in 1961, Zafer Senocak has lived in Germany since 1970. Over the years, he has become a leading voice in the German discussions on multiculturalism and national identity. His volume of
Anxiety of Words focuses on the work of three contemporary Korean women poets whose fierce poetic voices display a critical consciousness of women’s lives under patriarchy, capitalism, and neocolonial
A vivid and lively account of the personal and professional life of the much-admired Liverpool manager who led his team to an astounding victory in the Champions League, the pinnacle of European footb
