Small Beer Press
You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories
Mary Rickert
A gothic short story about grief, memory, and the eerie persistence of art.
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Farrar Straus & Giroux
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing
Brian Seibert
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times , begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the vaudeville circuits and nightclubs of the early twentieth century. Seibert chronicles tap's spread to ubiquity on Broadway and in Hollywood, analyzes its decline after World War II, and celebrates its rediscovery and reinvention by new generations of American and international performers. In the process, we discover how the history of tap dancing is central to any meaningful account of American popular culture. This is a story with a huge cast of characters, from Master Juba (it was probably a performance of his in a Five Points cellar that Charles Dickens described in American Notes for General Circulation ) through Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Gene Kelly and Paul Draper to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover. Seibert traces the stylistic development of tap through individual practitioners, vividly depicting dancers both well remembered and now obscure. And he illuminates the cultural exchange between blacks and whites over centuries, the interplay of imitation and theft, as well as the moving story of African-Americans in show business, wielding enormous influence as they grapple with the pain and pride of a complicated legacy. What the Eye Hears teaches us to see and hear the entire history of tap in its every step.
Univ of Chicago Pr
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton, Mary Pattillo
A foundational urban sociology book on Black life in Chicago.
Granta Books
The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Deborah Smith
A three-part novel about Yeong-hye, whose refusal to eat meat unsettles her family and exposes violence, desire, shame, and the limits of social understanding. The English translation won the 2016 International Booker Prize.
Scribner
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories
Stephen King
A novella about a marriage drawn into a disturbing bargain that tests the boundaries between money, conscience, and self-deception.
PLANETA
Hombres desnudos
Alicia Giménez Bartlett
The novel follows men and women whose lives collide as work, desire, and family expectations reshuffle the social order.
Peepal Tree Pr Ltd
Wife
Tiphanie Yanique
A poetry collection that sharply examines marriage, intimacy, and power. Behind its concise language, bodily feeling and family history resonate quietly.
Namelos Llc
My Seneca Village
Marilyn Nelson
A poetry collection that gives voice to the residents of Seneca Village and reconstructs the memory of a lost community.
The New Press
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
Deepa Iyer
A nonfiction study of how South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh immigrants have shaped the United States while facing prejudice and exclusion after 9/11.
Open Road Media
Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear
Ray Young Bear
A collected volume of Ray Young Bear's poetry, grounded in Meskwaki tradition, nature, violence, and memory.
Metropolitan Books
The Arab of the Future 1: A Childhood in the Middle East 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
Riad Sattouf, Sam Taylor
A graphic memoir that recounts a childhood spent moving between Syria, Libya, and France from a child’s perspective.
Afro-Middle East Centre
明日の戦場
Nick Turse
An investigative nonfiction account of the expansion of U.S. proxy wars and covert operations across Africa.