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Ha Jin
The Writer as Migrant
"Ha Jin is uniquely placed to address the responsibilities and challenges of the displaced writer. Offering both historical context and a strong personal vision of the migrant writer in America today, these essays are thought-provoking, often inspiring, and, above all, unfailingly interesting."—Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children

Seth Lerer
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
"Lerer’s history reminds us of the wealth of literature written during the past 2,600 years.… With his vast and multidimensional knowledge of literature, he underscores the vital role it plays in forming a child’s imagination. We are made, he suggests, by the books we read."—San Francisco Chronicle
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Robert Pogue Harrison
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
"The range of his perspective on the human myth suggests that Robert Pogue Harrison may be our Bachelard."—W. S. Merwin
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David Bevington
This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now
"Bevington makes interesting, nuanced and original points about staging and interpretation that reveal the dynamism and complexity of Shakespeare’s canon."—Jerome de Groot, Financial Times

Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Madame Proust: A Biography
"This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read."—Allan Massie, Literary Review
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Wendy Griswold
Regionalism and the Reading Class
"This is a bold, multi-textured, and extremely interesting book that combines fascinating theoretical points with empirically supported case studies. Griswold explores new territory and underscores its significance cogently and incisively."—Elizabeth Long, author of Book Clubs

Robert Appelbaum
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns
"This book is as sumptuous and well-structured as the Renaissance banquets it describes. Appelbaum makes familiar and unfamiliar material fully his own through the rigor of his interpretations and the breadth and depth of his knowledge of the subject."—Michael Schoenfeldt, author of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England
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Wayne C. Booth
The Essential Wayne Booth
"To Professor Booth, literature was not so much words on paper as it was a complex ethical act. He saw the novel as a kind of compact between author and reader: intimate and rewarding, but rarely easy."—Margalit Fox, New York Times

Kenneth Gross
Shylock Is Shakespeare
"Shylock Is Shakespeare is a book whose risk-taking, even obsessive plunge into the living character of Shylock has succeeded in reinventing a mode of criticism long thought derelict and abandoned."—Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World

Lois Parkinson Zamora
The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction
"A lift to read … beautifully produced … [Zamora] argues exhilaratingly that an aesthetic of fusion, adornment and exuberance rose phoenix-like in the aftermath of conquest, shaping an influential mode of fantasy, as in the art and architecture of Mexico and the marvelous fictions of Borges."—Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement (Books of the Year 2006)

N. Katherine Hayles
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
"Exhibits an impressively interdisciplinary energy: one minute, Hayles is taking on Stephen Wolfram's hubristic claim to have invented a new kind of science; the next she is doing some close reading of science fiction, slapping down Deleuze and Guattari for incurable vagueness, or regaling us with the history of the programming language C++. It's often fascinating."—Steven Poole, Guardian
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Marianna Torgovnick
The War Complex: World War II in Our Time
"A beautifully written meditation, at once wide ranging and intensely focused by the master thesis that at the heart of modernity lies the consciousness of war and the spectacle—horrifying and yet strangely narcotic—of mass death."—Stanley Fish
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W. J. T. Mitchell
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
"Mitchell s new book poses the key question of our obsessive times: not 'What do we want?' but 'What do the objects we look at want from us?' This question reaches much further than the domain of visual arts; it touches the very core of today's ideology."—Slavoj Zizek

Susan Stewart
The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics
"Because Stewart's primary aim, in these essays at least, is to investigate the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, she posits the optimistic view that 'art might serve as the basis for a global and secular humanism,' founded in such shared emotional experience, such common ways of seeing the world.…Stewart's essays have much to say about the creative process, in relation to the contemporary artists who are her subjects."—Anna James, Financial Times

Shadi Bartsch and Thomas Bartscherer, editors
Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern
Erotikon brings together leading contemporary intellectuals from a variety of fields for an expansive debate on the full meaning of eros. Restricted neither by historical period nor by genre, these contributions explore manifestations of eros throughout Western culture, in subjects ranging from ancient philosophy and baroque architecture to modern literature and Hollywood cinema.
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