The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935
In this timely book, Matthew Baigell examines cartoon images of Jews published in mainstream American magazines in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
A History of Nomadism
My family didn’t move to these places, but their shapes, their possible breaths, bumped against my own history, my immediate future, parallel universes that might suddenly rope around my present, palpitating self.
Deep Salt Water
Deep Salt Water is neither political nor didactic; rather, it is a text that transcends genre and uses the ocean and the life that exists within it as a lexicon for the necessary act of forgiveness.
The Grammar of Untold Stories
We were going to visit Budapest for a vacation. “As long as we’re there, we could visit your grandmother’s village,” he said. “Maybe do a little research. You might find a family member who still lives there.”
Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs
Collectively, Auker’s essays and prose poems describe both the prying loose of norms that have structured her life and the emergence of a vibrant woman who seeks out wild places.
I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
Reading this work gives the reader an uncanny sensation that Hall is not just presenting essays about the events of his life, but also mapping the typology of his soul.
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
Pogrebin’s journey is distinct and individual, yet one which mirrors the quest of many Jewish people in America.
Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
Selected from the country’s leading literary journals and publications—Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Normal School, and others—Beautiful Flesh gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, brain, bones, blood, ears, eyes, hair, hands, heart, […]
The Girls in My Town
With humor and compassion, Morales vividly captures the quirky imagery of growing up in 1970s Los Angeles.
Origins of the Universe and What It All Means
The main subject of the book is Firstman’s relationship with her father, Bruce Firstman, a biologist known for his research on the evolution of scorpions. Their relationship is sometimes cool and distant and sometimes intimate.