The poems of Anna Margolin (1887–1952), appearing here both in the original Yiddish and in English translation.

Explores how memoirs of widowhood can help us understand the reality of bereavement and the critical role of writing and reading in recovery.

First English translation of these important works by two of Spain’s most gifted writers and intellectuals.

Explores the existential significance of literacy.

A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.

Makes the case for a distinctly Sicilian American literature.

Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.

A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.

A collection of Colette's best writings that have never before appeared in English.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

Reintroduces the concept of “world literature” in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.

Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.

Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.

Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City’s biggest underdog, the “forgotten borough” of Queens.

Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.

A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.

Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

An abbot’s ghost searches for an intelligent monk to exhume his manuscript from a hellish crypt and learn the truth that monks lack two things: freedom of inquiry and benevolence.

A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.

Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.

A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how its figuration is transforming and offering new possibilities.

A literary anthology exploring contemporary Catholic women’s experiences.