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Bronka Nowicka
Using poetic and fantastical imagery, this poetry collection questions the boundary between objects and people, nature and memory. Through defamiliarizing metaphors and quiet lyricism, it traces death, rebirth, and the connection between body and land.
Clara Ingram Judson
Set against the history of the United States, this children’s biography follows Lincoln from boyhood through the presidency and finally to his assassination. It presents the arc of a public life in an accessible form.
Lúcio Cardoso, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson, Benjamin Moser
A memoir by Lucio Cardoso that uses Chronicle of the Murdered House to explore families and gay men, with class in view.
William J. Maxwell
A study of how the FBI monitored, read, and politically framed African American literature.
Susan Muaddi Darraj
A short-story collection set in the Palestinian village of Tel al-Hilou, spanning generations and continents to explore memory and belonging.
David France
A biography by David France that uses How to survive a plague to explore aids activists and research, with aids (disease) in view.
Giuseppe Montesano
A large-scale essayistic book that moves across the history of reading and creativity from prehistory to modern culture.
Wesley Lowery
Wesley Lowery's They Can't Kill Us All is reported nonfiction centered on Ferguson and Baltimore, tracing the deaths that fueled protest and the movement that followed. Built from field reporting and interviews, it examines police violence and racial inequality in the United States.
Paolo Cognetti
An Italian novel that traces memory and inheritance through a father-son bond and a childhood friendship formed in the mountains.
Winfried Georg Sebald, Michael Hulse
A prose work that follows a walk along the English east coast while tracing the memory of empire and the sense of collapse beneath it. Photographs, quotations, and association accumulate until the weight of history rises from the details of the landscape.
Jacob Polley
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Jackself is the fourth collection from one of Britain's finest poets, and sees Jacob Polley at the height of his powers. In one of the most original books of poetry to appear in the last decade, Jackself spins a kind of 'fictionalized autobiography' through nursery rhymes, riddles and cautionary tales, and through the many 'Jacks' of our folktale, legend, phrase and fable - everyman Jacks and no one Jacks, Jackdaw, Jack-O-Lantern, Jack Sprat, Cheapjack and Jack Frost. At once playful and terrifying, lyric and narratively compelling, Jackself is an unforgettable exploration of an innocence and childhood lost in the darker corners of Reiver country and of English folklore, and once more shows Polley as one of the most remarkable imaginations at work in poetry today. T. S. Eliot judging panel described J ackself as 'a firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling'.
Reiner Stach
The third volume of Reiner Stach's Kafka biography closely follows Kafka's youth, family life, and early writing based on archival sources. It offers a detailed scholarly account of the making of the writer.