Books

Forcinito explores how testimonial voices have played a pivotal role in the fight for justice, memory, and gender rights. Through the concept of diffraction, she examines how these voices move through and reshape barriers to construct sonic spaces that connect bodies and create spaces for listening. While Argentina is sometimes ...

Winner of the 2026 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Taking place during the decades-long civil conflict, Those Who Vanish follows the stories of Guatemalan citizens and North American expats set on a collision course by war. Across eight stories, martyrs and missionaries, guerrillas and gringos are thrown together amid political violence. A ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping our world. This book draws on more than 100 interviews with scientists and practitioners to investigate how experts in the field communicate their work, including how they define terms, work in teams, share their research, and think of ethics. It showcases the expertise from ...

Desire Path is a sweeping exploration of nationhood and small communities across cultural landscapes and national boundaries. In praise of community, these poems are invested in examining everyday life through personal narratives, oral tradition, and collective memory. In this collection, individual and communal disquiet opens to eros, spirituality, and haunting ...

Throughout history, architects, politicians, and planners have framed shantytowns or slums as aberrant, unplanned developments that stand apart from the city proper—merely as problems to be solved. Describing a site as a bidonville—the Francophone equivalent of shantytown—positioned it as a foil to and catalyst for new architectural ...

retrovirology oscillates between Queer childhood erasure and the AIDS epidemic, pulling from the ACT UP oral history project, informal interviews with survivors, and AIDS historians Sarah Schulman and David France. While some poems elegize key figures of AIDS history such as Larry Kramer and Gaeton Dugas, others operate as ekphrasis ...

Novel Distortions analyzes recent (1996-2019) Mexican and Central American novels through aesthetic, economic, and political lenses to interrogate two interrelated crises: the decline of national modernity and the shifting role of the novel as a genre that shapes national identity, instructs citizens in proper conduct, and conveys ideology to the ...

The Decadent Movement is a book-length suite of poems that spins backward in time through the early days of parenthood and the preceding nine months of pregnancy. Beginning a year after childbirth in the harried throes of marriage and parenting, the collection proceeds toward its finale “Minus Time,” which marvels ...

Equal parts sad, sexy, and searching, Abider opens with the central lament/brag of its lover-speaker, that she can never truly leave anything—or anyone—behind. The origins of this abidingness are traced in odes and elegies for a rural girlhood beset with jeopardy and scarcity and neglect. But it ...

Bodies of water have played myriad roles in human history—as cultural landmarks, foundation myths and origin stories, symbols of identity, sources of political legitimacy, and as ways of constructing shared values. Focusing on the rivers, lakes, glaciers, and seas of Eurasia—including China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Central Asia, the ...

In her first collection in a decade, Beckian Fritz Goldberg returns with The Blue Eye of Earth, her tour de force of luminous, meditative poems that measure a secret distance between person and cosmos, memory and desire, beauty and grief. Whether standing at her neighbor’s fence of desert oleander, ...

All Eyes on Space examines television as a form of modern architecture—and how its material conditions have shaped contemporary ideas of space, place, and distance. Analog television was more than a novel way of transmitting images and sounds for commercial entertainment; it brought with it new ways of producing ...

Rupture Anthem explores a journey of severance and belonging. The speaker of the poems traces vestiges of a lost home—her father’s migration to Jeddah during the 1970s oil boom, migrant labor abuse under the country’s restrictive kafala system, girlhood within the country’s strict religious mores, and ...

On June 23, 1946, Italy and Belgium signed the “men in exchange for coal” agreement, in which Italy committed to sending 50,000 workers each year to the Belgian coal mines, and Belgium pledged to supply a few thousand tons of coal to Italy each month. The first treaty of its kind, the agreement ...

Since Darwin’s death in 1882, commemorations organized in different parts of the world have celebrated various aspects of his scientific impact. Events, activities, and publications marking major anniversaries of Darwin’s birth and death, of the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859) and other works, and of the Beagle ...