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The Islands

Six Fictions

By William Wall

The first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Be Holding

A Poem

By Ross Gay

A New Poem from the Author of The Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and The Book of Delights

Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world “as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see,” to ...

Earnest, Earnest?

Poems

By Eleanor Boudreau

Winner of the 2019 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

Identity in a Secular Age

Science, Religion, and Public Perceptions

Edited By Fern Elsdon-Baker, Bernard Lightman

A Nuanced Analysis of Perceptions about the Relationship between Evolutionary Science, Religion, and Personal Belief

Poland 1945

War and Peace

By Magdalena Grzebalkowska

How Ordinary People in Poland Experienced the Last Months of World War II and the First Months of Peace

American Dinosaur Abroad

A Cultural History of Carnegie's Plaster Diplodocus

By Ilja Nieuwland

The Untold Story of Carnegie’s Prized Dinosaur and Its Influence on European Culture

The Body Wars

Poems

By Jan Beatty

What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of meditation, only to slide ...

Horsepower

Poems

By Joy Priest

Winner of the 2019 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.

Germany’s Urban Frontiers

Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City

By Kristin Poling

A New Environmental History that Integrates Cultural and Urban Identity Across German Cities and Their Outskirts

Poemas de amor / Love Poems

By Idea Vilariño

The First Translation of a Major Uruguayan Poet into English

Cultivating Victory

The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement

By Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant

A compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles during World Wars I and II by campaigns to recruit Women’s Land Armies in Great Britain and the United States to cultivate victory gardens. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through women’s ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women’s Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.