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Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amid the crumbling taverns …
Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. Winner of Japan’s top literary prizes for fiction (among them the …
Against the stark and unyielding beauty of the Australian farmlands, Elizabeth Jolley paints a rich …
Sooo good if you're into gothic tropes with lesbian undertones and potential settler-colonial allegories.
Sooo good if you're into gothic tropes with lesbian undertones and potential settler-colonial allegories.
Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. Margaret and her …
The essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in …
The essays are touching tributes to the multitudes coming into being as high school students, and to the lives prior …
For Kerima Polotan's indelible protagonist Emma, love is the sole reason for being. It's what …
I have a weakness for mid-century melodrama. The Hand of the Enemy isn't noir, but it has strong James M. Cain vibes. Kerima Polotan dramatizes and spatializes gender roles across the urban/provincial divide in a modernizing, newly postcolonial Philippines. This book was originally published in 1961. Can't believe I only read it now!
I have a weakness for mid-century melodrama. The Hand of the Enemy isn't noir, but it has strong James M. Cain vibes. Kerima Polotan dramatizes and spatializes gender roles across the urban/provincial divide in a modernizing, newly postcolonial Philippines. This book was originally published in 1961. Can't believe I only read it now!
For Kerima Polotan's indelible protagonist Emma, love is the sole reason for being. It's what we're here for. Its enemy, …
After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a …
The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, …
In The View from Somewhere, Lewis Raven Wallace dives deep into the history of “objectivity” in journalism and how its …
