LITERATURE & CRITICISM
Rapp (ed), Judith Heumann, Ed Yong 25th February, pb, £23.99, 9781479830855 Documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicentre of Covid-19— New York City.
NYRB Classics Water
Rumi, Haleh Liza Gafori 18th March, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781681379166 Follow-up to her ground- breaking translations of Rumi in Gold, poet and musician Gafori translates a new selection of work by the great Persian mystic.
On Writers and Writing Henry James, Michael Gorra 11th February, pb, eb, £23, 9781681379234 Fresh selection of James’ essays, from his famous work “The Art of Fiction” to pieces on George Eliot, Turgenev and others.
NYRB Poets
The French Prose Poem Mary Ann Caws, Michel Delville 13th May, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781681377322 The first English-language collection of its kind, this anthology offers an overview of the past and present history of a long- underappreciated—and now quickly burgeoning— poetic tradition.
Oxford University Press
SERIES
A Very Short Introduction pb, eb, £8.99 Anthony Trollope Dinah Birch 27th February, 9780192845627 Places Trollope’s work in the context of his life and times, drawing on recent scholarship to illuminate his central interests and literary strategies. Sophocles Edith Hall 27th February, 9780192897800 The life, work and influence of one of the greatest dramatists. Henry David Thoreau Lawrence Buell 10th July, 9780197548189 Agatha Christie Gill Plain 27th July, 9780198863748 Explores Agatha Christie’s extraordinary success by considering the curious alchemy of her straightforward style and convoluted plotting. George Eliot
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Juliette Atkinson 22nd May, 9780198864325
Octavia E Butler Chi-ming Yang 13th February, hb, eb, £22.99, 9780192862358 A volume on the early writings of the science fiction author offers an illustrated background of her juvenilia and extraordinary literary career.
The Question of Linguistic Idealism Richard Gaskin 1st May, hb, eb, £119, 9780192872654 The papers in this collection address the question of to what extent the doctrine of linguistic idealism is coherent and plausible.
How to Draw the World Philip Nel 27th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780197777596 Biography of the book that inspired Prince to adopt purple as his signature colour, Pulitzer- Prize-winning author Richard Powers to become a writer, and other latent creatives to become artists.
Émile Zola Rachel Bowlby 10th April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780198874126 A book on Zola’s novels, covering most of the writing of the Rougon- Macquart sequence and his exile in England.
Oscar Wilde’s Oxford Notebooks
Philip E Smith II (ed), Michael Helfand (ed) 24th April, pb, eb, £25, 9780198920731 Originally published in 1989, Wilde’s Notebook on History and Philosophy and his Commonplace Book forever altered critical perceptions of his intentions and achievements.
Picador
Love in a Dark Time Colm Tóibín 27th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035055005 In this perceptive and rich collection of essays Tóibín investigates the lives as well as the works of homosexual writers and artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Pitkin
A Jane Austen Year Jane Austen’s House 13th March, hb, eb, £25, 9781849949040 Beautifully illustrated
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
miscellany of Austen’s life and works published to celebrate the 250th anniversary of her birth.
Princeton University Press
State of Ridicule Dan Sperrin 29th April, hb, eb, £38, 9780691195582 A history of political satire in English literature from its Roman foundations to the present day.
All the World on a Page Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky 27th May, hb, eb, £35, 9780691207162 The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry explored through close readings of 34 poems by wordsmiths ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria Stepanova.
In Praise of Good Bookstores Jeff Deutsch 22nd April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780691229652 From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores.
Buried Treasures Jack Zipes 18th February, pb, eb, £18.99, 9780691244754 Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy tales.
I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer Mary Beth Norton 22nd April, hb, eb, £20, 9780691253992 Fascinating collection of questions and answers— about courtship, marriage, love and sex—from a 17th-century periodical.
Impermanent Blackness Korey Garibaldi 1st April, pb, eb, £18.99, 9780691255552 Revisiting an almost- forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s.
Literature’s Refuge William Stroebel 18th March, pb, eb, £35, 9780691266053 Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East recovered and retold at last.
The Chapter Nicholas Dames 25th February, pb, eb, £18.99, 9780691271026
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, a history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today.
What is the Present? Michael North 17th June, pb, eb, £20, 9780691271095 Provocative look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time and their effect on literature, art and culture.
Profile Books
Metamorphoses Karolina Watroba 6th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781800812758 Original, inventive biography of Franz Kafka and his readers.
Saqi
Sultan’s Sex Potions Daniel L Newman 26th June, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781849250757 Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history, dating back as far as the ninth century. This book provides an invaluable insight into sexuality in Middle Eastern history.
Scribe
The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation Jennie Orchard (ed) 19th June, hb, £14.99, 9781915590824 Inspired by Robert Macfarlane, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books to children and young people from the world’s most loved writers.
SPBH Editions
Irrational Francesco Jodice, Francesco Zanot 1st May, pb, £13, 9781915743916 Illustrated essay examines case studies related to AI, fake news and populism to unpick the rise of irrationality in modern life and the porous line between reason and chaos.
Stanford University Press
Atrocity Bruce Robbins 4th February, hb, £27.99, 9781503640559 Venturing from the Bible to Zadie Smith, Robbins explores the literature of suffering to show how, over time, abhorrence of mass violence takes shape.
Studymates
The Studymates Literary History of the United Kingdom and Ireland Volume One: 731 to 1837 Derek Soles, Graham Lawler (ed) 31st July, pb, £14.99, 9781842856130 Analysis of British and Irish literary history utilises the Studymates speciality of drilling into a concept with no wasted words.
Thames & Hudson
Margaret Drabble on the Romantics Margaret Drabble 1st May, hb, £12.99, 9780500029497 Highly acclaimed exploration of the way in which the landscape has both influenced and been represented in British romantic literature.
The Arden Shakespeare
SERIES
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition Brian Vickers (ed), Joseph Candido (ed) hb, eb, £130, 97813500 Traces the course of Shakespeare criticism play-by-play, from the earliest recorded appraisals to the beginnings of the modern period. Hamlet
Marvin W Hunt (ed) 6th February, vol 2, 02159
Twelfth Night James Schiffer (ed) 15th May, vol 1, 87057
On Shakespeare’s Sonnets Hannah Crawforth (ed), Elizabeth Scott- Baumann (ed) 15th May, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781350531505 Brings together 30 of the world’s foremost contemporary poets writing in response to Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
The Belknap Press
Super Gay Poems Stephanie Burt 25th April, hb, £24.95, 9780674273115 Major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid and more.
To Save and to Destroy Viet Thanh Nguyen
25th April, hb, £22.95, 9780674298170 From the Pulitzer Prize– winning author of The Sympathizer comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.
The University of Michigan Press
Speaking Our Selves Asiimwe Deborah Kawe, Robert H Vorlicky 5th March, pb, £33.95, 9780472057214 Eight plays by African women writers emphasise diverse storytelling methods rooted in African traditions while confronting issues such as gender, agency and mental health.
A Companion to Apollonius of Rhodes Ruth Scodel (ed) 8th April, hb, £81, 9780472133604 Literary and cultural analysis of the “Argonautica” offering insights into the epic’s characters, mythological elements and influence on Latin literature.
UCL Press
Classics and Race Sarah Derbew (ed), Daniel Orrells (ed), Phiroze Vasunia (ed) 1st April, digital, eb, £1.19, 9781800088146 Provides scholars and students with an exploratory intellectual history of the various and complex relationships between Classics and racist and anti-racist thought systems and politics.
Unbound
A Passion for Passion Alice Fraser 6th February, hb, £14.99, 9781800183629 Glorious homage to genre fiction, celebrating the solemn silliness of romance novels.
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