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Andrea Dworkin
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.
James Le Fanu
The medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavor.
Michael Longley
Michael Longley's poetry collection looks at the fragility of home and civilization through war memory and quiet everyday scenes. Its spare language gathers the textures of history and landscape into the same frame.
Anne Fine
Goggle-Eyes follows a family story seen through a sharp-eyed child who mistrusts her mother's new boyfriend.
Allan J. Ryan
Allan J. Ryan's study of contemporary Native art uses the trickster as a guide to examine how humor and irony help remake expression and identity.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Through stories linking India and the United States, the collection delicately portrays misunderstanding, loneliness, and the distance of migration.
Serena Vitale
A biographical non-fiction work that reconstructs Pushkin's final four months and the truth of the duel by weaving together letters, diaries, and court records. By joining fragments of evidence, it explores what the poet's death meant for Russian cultural history.
Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas's memoir of decades spent as a White House correspondent. Seen from a reporter's perspective across administrations from Kennedy to Clinton, it traces the relationship between journalism and power.
Eleanore M. Jewett, Frederick T. Chapman
Set at Glastonbury Abbey in the twelfth century, the novel follows Hugh, a boy with a leg disability, as he and his friend Dickon are drawn toward a treasure linked to the Holy Grail legend.
Carolyne Wright
A poetry collection that draws on experiences in Chile and Brazil to explore exile, political violence, and the memory of a body in motion.
Michael Ignatieff
A book that examines the Kosovo war to think through the nature of remote modern warfare. It probes the relationship between military power, the media, and ethics from both field reporting and theory.
Brent Staples
A memoir that reflects on the cost of growing up and the making of the self through Black family history and movement into white society. It quietly explores the tension between responsibility to family and personal ambition.