From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others played vital roles in their communities.
Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade.
Drei Leben im geteilten Nachkriegsdeutschland, keines von ihnen scheint wirklich außergewöhnlich und doch treiben sie irgendwann unmerklich als drei Schicksale aufeinander zu.
Eileen Myles erzählt ungeschönt und unverblümt davon, wie es war – damals in New York – als alles möglich schien, als Warhol jedem 15 Minuten Berühmtheit versprach, als Allen Ginsberg noch zu deiner Buchpremiere kam, wenn du ihn einludst, als noch alle mit allen im Bett gelandet sind, und es immer irgendjemanden gab, der Alkohol oder Drogen dabei hatte.
Ein tragikomischer Familien-Roadtrip auf den Spuren der verschollenen GroßmutterSalesche, ein Dorf in Polen 1990: Jarek und seine Eltern packen ihre Sachen.
In this book, author Helene Thiesen recounts her experience of being removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be 're-educated' in Denmark and an orphanage in Greenland.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013An unsettling exploration of manipulation and power between a middle-aged man and eleven year-old girl.
Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics.
This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century.
For decades now Gardner Dozois has been presenting his annual selection of the very best of recently published SF stories, both by undisputed masters of the genre and by outstanding up-and-coming writers.
New York Times Bestselling AuthorFinally returned to print in a beautiful trade paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists-a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability “Oates .
WINNER OF THE WALES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021Winner of the Naim Frash ri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize 'Fiona Sampson's voice is something new and it's a delight to hear it .
Adichies preisgekrönter Afrika-Roman - schon jetzt ein WeltklassikerEine Geschichte über Liebe und Verrat, Rassismus und Loyalität und das Leben im zerstörerischen Alltag des Krieges.
Lucknow: Buildings, Begums and The British is not about history; rather it is a book on heritage - defined as the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes inherited from past generations.
A SHEERLUXE READING LIST PICK FOR 2025 'Fans of Bridget Jones will love Lizzie Frainier's tales from the dating front line' Sunday Times Style'Lizzie Frainier is admirably frank and deeply likeable.
This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the ways in which actors are trained in the US and UK.
A fascinating examination of the strategies and uses of air power in the First World War, Sky on Fire covers not only developments in military hardware and tactics but also how public policy and political considerations shaped the ways air power was deployed.
This trio of heartwarming, inspirational Amish holiday stories, each connected to its bestselling author's Amish romance series, captures the blessings of family, faith, and the magic and childlike joy of Christmas.
Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit.
With its echoes of fellow Austrian novelist Robert Musil's novella Young Torless, and of Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, Florjan Lipus's Young Tjaz, first published in 1972, helped moved the critique of Germanic Europe's fundamental social conformity into the postwar age.
