On Sound and Rhythm in Text: Angela Leighton’s ‘Hearing Things’
Imaginative listening while reading, as Leighton demonstrates so masterfully, is not only a form of cognition but also a physical experience as we read or write literary texts.
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We Think We’re the Center of the Universe
An unusual and potentially polarizing work of cosmology, Universe in Creation highlights some fascinating coherences and connections in the fabric of existence.
The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde, ed. Nicholas Frankel
As an activist, Wilde persists as a necessary voice "from the depths" of these stark texts.
The Devil’s Music: How Evangelicals Harnessed Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Devil’s Music shows how religious conservatives spent as much time studying popular culture as condemning it and have learned its lessons more effectively than progressives.
Short Stories: Surprises and Twists
Five literary short stories with a twist by Alice Munro, Jorge Luis Borges, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lee Martin, and Jennifer Lynne Christie.
‘Bring the War Home’ Digs into the Trenches of the White Power Movement in America
Historian Kathleen Belew painstakingly details the influence of the Vietnam wartime experience on the evolution of white power ideology.
‘Elements of Surprise’ and the Pleasures of Being Had
Vera Tobin's work helps dispel 20th-century Freudian notions that we are made up of many inexplicable facets, that our motives are unknown to us, and that we repress all that we cannot deal with.