A short story collection told from an Indigenous perspective. It layers history and tradition into everyday moments to build stories with a quiet afterglow.

Everyday moments gather the weight of history.

A landmark anthology gathering essays, testimonies, and criticism by women of color. It sharply shows the intersections of feminism with race, class, and sexuality.

Multiple voices cut open structures of oppression through language.

A photo-historical study that rereads photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown as historical evidence. Through notes and images, it excavates urban memory and immigrant history.

Photographs bring a half-lost city memory back into view.

An anthology of writing by Italian American women. It illuminates immigration memory, family history, and gendered experience through many voices.

It presents long-suppressed women’s voices as a coherent book.

A music history that traces New Orleans rhythm and blues through the testimony of singers, players, and recording scenes. It gives the city’s music culture a vivid, three-dimensional shape.

It gathers the city’s voices and memories through oral history.

A poetry collection that layers nature, spirituality, and an Indigenous perspective. It explores the connection between inner life and the wider world in a clear, luminous voice.

Within the contours of nature, the movement of spirit comes quietly into view.

A bilingual poetry collection by Miguel Algarín in which urban politics, intimate relationships, and spiritual tension intersect. Moving between New York streets and the realities of Central America, it gives voice in both English and Spanish.

A collection where English and Spanish carry the sounds of the city and of faith.

A historical novel by Natasha Borovsky that follows Tatyana Silomirskaya as she is swept up in the upheaval of the Russian Revolution. It contrasts the privileges of imperial Russia with the rupture brought by war and revolution.

A woman’s life unfolds against the fall of imperial Russia.

An experimental love story by Raymond Federman that follows two people who meet across a smile in Washington Square. Beneath the playful premise, shifts in time, perspective, and language create a deliberately unstable narrative.

A smile in Washington Square opens into a deliberately playful novel.

A critical essay by Susan Howe that explores Emily Dickinson’s language and interpretive possibilities across the boundary between poetry and criticism. It loosens inherited reading habits and opens Dickinson’s work to a wider field of thought.

A cross-genre rereading of Dickinson’s voice.

A work that binds Irish American music and friendship through lyrical fragments. The memory of immigrant culture emerges in a colloquial, rhythmic register.

Song and friendship carry the tactile feel of immigrant culture.

A work that traces Japanese American experience through short fiction. It depicts prewar and postwar life, movement, and unstable belonging with restrained narration.

The instability of belonging appears in a quiet sequence of short stories.