A history of Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw girls' school, traced through oral testimony and archival records. The book shows how education could function as a means of cultural survival rather than simple assimilation, following the school from its founding through major shifts in control.

It reframes education as a force of survival rather than surrender.

A critical study that links the persecution of Jews with the oppression of women, moving across history, literature, and politics to trace the structure of scapegoating. It examines violence aimed at both ethnicity and gender in a voice that is provocative yet tightly argued.

Why have women and Jews been cast as society's scapegoats?

A poetry collection that draws on experiences in Chile and Brazil to explore exile, political violence, and the memory of a body in motion.

A traveling gaze ties historical wounds to personal memory.

Johnson examines the blowback created by U.S. military and foreign-policy interventions, linking American empire to Japan-U.S. dependence.

The more force is projected abroad, the more its costs return at home.

Johnson examines the unintended consequences of American intervention abroad through cases such as Okinawa, the Asian financial crisis, Iraq, and the Balkans. He offers a critical reading of post-Cold War U.S. military and foreign policy and asks what it costs when a nation behaves like an empire.

"Blowback" names the idea that actions taken abroad eventually return to affect life at home.

A lonely everyman named Jimmy Corrigan travels to Michigan to meet the father he has never known. Moving between 1890s Chicago and 1980s suburbia, the book traces family estrangement, memory, and time through an intricately designed graphic narrative.

A journey to meet a father he has never known becomes a study of estrangement and memory.

A poetry collection that traces García's memories of California farm labor camps and the lives of migrant workers. Family memory, the weight of labor, and a sensory attachment to the land combine to give the book both testimonial force and lyric intensity.

Labor camp memories become poems that carry the scent of earth and fruit.

In 1950s Trinidad, a murder rumor brings two childhood friends face to face again. As they confront each other, the pressure of race, class, and gender spreads from their homes into the wider society.

A rumor brings buried memory and solidarity back to the surface.

An award-winning poetry collection that links personal and political violence through images of Central America, nature, and domestic conflict.

An award-winning collection of poetry that forges links among violence and resistance.

A selected-poems volume that revisits Philip Whalen's representative work. Everyday observation, Zen, humor, and self-reflection run through the book, renewing the voice of a Beat-era poet.

A selected-poems collection that turns everyday detail into poetry.

A short-story collection that traces Asian American lives through migration, desire, family rupture, faith, and AIDS. Moving between California and Taiwan, it quietly reconsiders identity and intimacy.

It follows the shadow of migration and the intimacy that lives between body and spirit, in writing that is sharp yet restrained.

This collection gathers fourteen short stories in a three-part structure. Moving through Chinese American immigration, sexuality, AIDS, and a Buddhist sense of renewal, it traces the desire and loss of people living on the margins.

In motion and loss, the question is where a life can still make a home.

A selected collection of Ted Joans's poetry gathered from four decades of work. Its forceful wordplay, shaped by Langston Hughes's influence, meets jazz, surrealism, and the Black experience, presenting a singular voice that emerged from the margins of the Beat generation.

A definitive volume that gathers four decades of poetry and provocation into one voice.

Tillie Olsen's landmark essay collection revisits how literary history has muted women and working-class writers, and how criticism can recover the voices that were pushed aside. Using figures such as Melville, Hardy, Cather, and Woolf, it asks who gets written into the canon, who is left out, and why.

A classic study of literary silence and the voices hidden behind it.