New York. Twelve / Grand Central. 2012. ISBN 9780446563130Deftly written and refreshingly nonacademic, Eminent Outlaws spans fifty years of gay fiction, drama, and poetry from Gore Vidal…
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- Brian Roettinger, designer. Zurich. JRP Ringier (Artbook / D.A.P., distr.). 2011. ISBN 9783037641194Collage Culture is itself something of a collage—a team effort by multidisciplinary writers…
- Lisa M. Dillman, tr. Champaign, Illinois. Dalkey Archive. 2012. ISBN 978-1564786067 Widely recognized as one of the finest Latin American essayists and as a trenchant critic of world literatures,…
- Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 9780374223977First published in 2006 as El Olvido que seremos and reminiscent of Eduardo Galeano’s…
- New York. Pantheon. 2011. ISBN 9780375423949You might say, and many have, that in 1986 Art Spiegelman’s Maus revolutionized the late-twentieth-century cultural perception of comics and the en…
- Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815632788Through passionate personal accounts, close readings of Iranian literature, and astute observations of the culture, Farzaneh Mila…
- Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2011 (©2010). ISBN 9780472050994Kevin Stein grew up, like most contemporary poets, believing what he was told, that poetry was a dying form, a noble if outdate…
- New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2012. ISBN 9780547134666Some might consider building a home in a country as politically volatile and prone to violence as Lebanon an exercise in futility, especial…
- Paris. P.O.L. 2011. ISBN 9782818014059The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot is one of the five major literary prizes in France, second only to the Prix Goncourt in terms of the prestige it confers. Created in…
- Seattle. Sasquatch. 2010. vi + 151 pages. $12.95. isbn 978-1-57061- 670-9We have all experienced it before: while attempting to read, our phone pings, alerting us to the arrival of a new text, email,…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. lxii + 421 pages + 8 plates. $35. isbn 978-0-374-28138-0While admired during her lifetime, Elizabeth Bishop is now considered to be one of the most importa…
- Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. viii + 154 pages. $19.95. isbn 978-0-8156-3253-5Despite its modest subtitle, this book is a good introduction to a little-known but growing traditi…
- New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011. ISBN 9780547336916The Tao of Travel is a delightful collection of un-commonplace remarks and episodes by writers who have traveled, edited by a…
- New York. Twelve / Hachette. 2011. ISBN 9781455502776Ordinary book reviewers have three tasks: to determine what the author set out to do; how well that task was accomplished; and whether it was worth…
- Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780819570826In 2003 Wesleyan published one of the most exciting anthologies of Latin American fiction in years. Edited by Andrea L. Bell…
- Budapest. Múlt és jövő. 2010. 263 pages. 3200 Ft. ISBN 978-963-9512-60-3 Ágnes Heller is the doyen of Hungarian philosophers. She is well over eighty but possesses almost inex-haustible energy. In…