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In fiction or life, I generally turn a cold shoulder to studies in psychopathy.

Pedro Pietri's often playfully absurd poems chronicle the joys and struggles of Nuyoricans—urban Puerto Ricans whose lives straddle the islands of Puerto Rico and Manhattan—and define the Latino experience in urban America.

In 1941, Kentucky was still in the grips of the Great Depression.

Tim Wise is one of America's most prolific public intellectuals.

As of 2015, Brill is to publish Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives (TCEA)????????for the Society of Overseas Chinese Studies (SOCS), Taipei, Taiwan.

Until recently, I'm ashamed to admit, my reading of Nigerian authors was limited to the works of Chinua Achebe (which are certainly worth reading, if you haven't already).

In this bracing, visionary response to the urgent challenges of climate change, Roy Scranton takes readers on a journey through street protests, the latest findings of earth scientists, a historic UN summit, millennia of geological history, and the persistent vitality of ancient literature.

No other artist captures the drama and fragility of the AIDS era as Karen Finley does in her 1990 classic book Shock Treatment.

While the young man known as Angel and his ragtag group of hopeless, homeless, futureless, and youth-less children of the streets battle the pimps and their own inner demons in the basements, alleys and deserted parks of New York, Anneke stands beside them.

University Press of Kentucky co-editors Gerald Smith, Karen Cotton McDaniel, and John Hardin have been selected to receive the 2015 Kentucky Archives Month Certificate for Merit for Writing/Publication for their editorship of The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia.

John Wieners was on the periphery of many of the twentieth century's most important avant-garde poetry scenes, from Black Mountain and the Boston Renaissance to the New York School and the SF Renaissance.

What does Dumbledore have in common with Dr.

Elena Ferrante is a phenomenon.

They were newlyweds and expecting our first baby.

Staff members at Watkins Books, London's oldest spiritual and esoteric bookshop in the world, have been known for their ability to select outstanding books that will stand the test of time.

Barking Rain Press, a non-profit fiction publisher, announced the paperback and eBook release of the thrilling paranormal vampire fantasy "The Stage" by author Catherine Russell of Tacoma, Washington.

In keeping with the general Halloween atmosphere, Class Act Books is releasing four new novels this month, all with a mystery-thriller theme.

'Tell me a story,' Christine's daughter, Victoria, requested one night several years after the mother and her then 11-year-old daughter spent an intense seven months in and out of Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Someone is murdering pre-op transgender people and a popular investigative journalist is hot on the killer's trailer.

Imagine the world was once not just peaceful, but filled only with harmony and serenity and all the animals got along just fine.

From October 13 to 17, 2015, Aggregion will take part in the Frankfurt International Book Fair.

Anthony Maddoc was a young man when he entered the military, but he came back hardened by the war he fought in the jungles of Vietnam.

SAN DIEGO, Oct.

The ancient adage 'know thyself' has been uttered and repeated, defined and translated many times, but is there a singular, universal understanding of what that truly means? In her new book, 'Knowing Yourself.

In May of 2015, almost a thousand school yearbooks were submitted to the annual yearbook contest by Entourage Yearbooks.