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Take Me to Stavanger

Poems

By Anzhelina Polonskaya

A Bilingual Collection of Poems for a Dispirited Society

It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories

By Ramona Reeves

Winner of the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Now You Know It All

By Joanna Pearson

Winner of the 2021 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Inka Bird Idiom

Amazonian Feathers in the Andes

By Claudia Brosseder

How Indigenous People Used Feathers as a Significant Way of Symbolic Communication in the Andes

Fields of Play

Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City

By Robert T. Hayashi

A Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity

Small in Real Life

By Kelly Sather

Winner of the 2023 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

The Invention of Imagination

Aristotle, Geometry, and the Theory of the Psyche

By Justin Humphreys

A Provocative Examination of the Origin of Imagination

Rock That Is Not a Rabbit, The

Poems

By Corey Marks

Meditative Poems That Ask, What If “We Change and Change / But Don’t Change Back?”

OCTOBERS

Poems

By Sahar Muradi

Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

The Secret Police and the Soviet System

New Archival Investigations

Edited By Michael David-Fox

A Penetrating Exploration of the Soviet Secret Police Apparatus

Transplanting Modernity?

New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment

Edited By Thomas B. Robertson, Jenny Leigh Smith

Calls for an Honest Reckoning of the Successes, Failures, and Unanticipated Results of International Developments

Kaufmann’s

The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store

By Marylynne Pitz, Laura Malt Schneiderman

Traces One Family’s Outsized Influence on Its Community and a Century of National Retail Trends in the Department Store Industry

Ghost Variations

Poems

By Elton Glaser

Intensely Emotional and Bitingly Witty Poems about Grief, Family, and Joy

Making the Frontier Man

Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry

By Matthew C. Ward

Contextualizes the Development of Early American Violence and Gun Culture

Multicultural Commonwealth

Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives

By Stanley Bill, Simon Lewis

An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe