LITERATURE & CRITICISM
Ahmad Qabaha (ed) 1st March, pb, £24.99, 9781802075373 Confronts the way Pales- tinians have felt obliged to rethink memory and resistance in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the 21st century.
Scripting Shame in African Literature Stephen L Bishop 1st March, pb, £27.99, 9781802075380 Study of shame in African literature showing how its representations under- score its social functions.
SERIES
World Writing in French: New Archipelagoes Published in partnership with the Winthrop-King Institute, Florida State University, cutting- edge, contemporary, French-language fiction and travel writing translated for an English- speaking audience.
Prisoner of the Levant Darina Al Joundi, Helen Vassallo (tr) 1st March, hb, £49.99, 9781802078756 pb, eb, £19.99, 9781802078749 Sentinel Island Benjamin Hoffmann, Alan J Singerman (tr) 1st February, pb, eb, £25, 9781837642625
Luath Press
Choose Life. Choose Leith Tim Bell 30th March, pb, £14.99, 9781804251096 Both critically analyses the Trainspotting phenomenon and contextualises the importance of the location of Leith and the culture of 1990s Britain.
Mack
Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography Lou Stoppard (ed) 19th February, pb, £30, 9781915743442 Exterieurs. Annie Ernaux Et La Photographie Lou Stoppard (ed) 19th February, pb, £30, 9781915743459 Accompanying a major exhibition at MEP, Paris, this book combines writ- ing from Nobel prizewin- ner Ernaux’s book Exteri- ors with photographs from the collection. Avail- able in French and English editions.
McFarland
Shakespeare and the Authorship of the
Sonnets
Dennis Hirsch 2nd March, pb, £49.95, 9781476692173 Presents an Oxfordian reading of the Sonnets and the problematic life of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Restless in Sleep Country Paul Huebener 15th May, pb, eb, £32.50, 9780228020394 Pulling back the covers on the contested cultural ground occupied by our seemingly indifferent naps and snoozes, Huebener reveals sleep as a site of politics, culture and power.
More Richly in Earth Marilyn Bowering 15th May, pb, eb, £24.99, 9780228021124 Compelling exploration of the mystery of a 17th- century Scottish Gaelic bard, Mary MacLeod, and where she intersects with Canadian poet and novelist Bowering.
Mudlark
Once Upon a Prime Sarah Hart 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008601119 Insightful and funny book reveals the myriad connections between maths and literature and how understanding those connections can enhance our enjoyment of both.
New Directions
Self-portraits Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy (tr) 6th February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780811232265 Collects Dazai’s best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume. Shows the legendary writer at his best—and worst.
Oxford University Press
The Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller JH Alexander (ed) 30th April, hb, eb, £190, 9780192883018 Part of a new series, this is the first fully critical edition of Dickens’ late journalistic masterpiece. Includes textual and explanatory notes, glossary and detailed maps.
In Dialogue With Dickens Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Philip Davis
8th February, hb, eb, £30, 9780192886743 The two authors prioritise the act of live reading and the experience of encoun- tering an intense or prob- lematic feeling when reading Dickens’s works.
Wilde in the Dream Factory Kate Hext 29th February, hb, eb, £25, 9780198875376 The influence of Oscar Wilde’s work on American cinema and culture, with close readings of Wilde’s works placed alongside screwball comedies and film noir of the 1930s and ’40s.
Law At the Movies Stanley Fish 29th February, hb, eb, £25, 9780198898726 Fish focuses on films that take law as their subject to explain how legal doctrine is made into the stuff of plot and charac- ter. A book for movie lovers.
SERIES
Very Short Introductions pb, eb, £8.99, 978019 Combines authoritative analysis, new ideas and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable. Dostoevsky Deborah Martinsen 28th March, vol 1 8864332 Marcel Proust Joshua Landy 25th July, vol 2 7586556
SERIES
Oxford World’s Classics: Te New Oxford Shakespeare William Shakespeare 11th April, pb, eb, £6.99, 97801928 Comprehensive introduc- tions, clear explanatory notes, chronologies and bibliographies support every Oxford World’s Classic.
The Merry Wives of Windsor Callan Davies (ed), Sarah Neville (ed), Emma Smith vol 7 73576 Measure for Measure Terri Bourus (ed), Emma Smith vol 3 65861 Romeo and Juliet Hannah August (ed), Francis X Conor (ed), Emma Smith vol 2 66363 Henry IV Part I Indira Ghose (ed), Anna Pruitt (ed), Emma Smith vol 6 65823 Macbeth John Jowett (ed), Emma Smith vol 1 62426 The Tempest
Lauren Working (ed), Rory Loughlane (ed), Emma Smith vol 4 65878 As You Like It Francis X Connor (ed), Emma Smith vol 5 65809
Picador
Everything Must Go Dorian Lynskey 11th April, hb, eb, £25, 9781529095937 From the Baillie Gifford- and Orwell Prize- longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth an investigation of our fantasies of the end of the world across high and popular culture.
Princeton University Press
Rome’s Patron Emily Gowers 23rd April, hb, eb, £38, 9780691193144 The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of Ancient Roman poetry and culture.
The Trials of Orpheus Jenny C Mann 4th June, pb, eb, £22, 9780691219240 Revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence.
Natural Magic Renee Bergland 25th June, hb, eb, £28, 9780691235288 Captivating portrait of Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin who shared an enchanted view of nature.
On the Couch Andrew Blauner (ed) 9th July, hb, eb, £25, 9780691242439 Twenty-five leading writ- ers present a collection of colourful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy.
The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany Francois-Marie Luzel 12th March, pb, eb, £18.99, 9780691252698 Twenty-nine Breton tales, as told over a series of long winter nights. Featuring an ingenious miller, a Jerusalem-bound ant, a mad dash at midnight, and more.
Glad to the Brink of Fear James Marcus 30th April, hb, £25, 9780691254333 Engaging reassessment of
the celebrated essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson and his relevance to contemporary readers.
The Passion Projects Melanie Micir 4th June, pb, eb, £18.99, 9780691259260 How Modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history.
Semi-detached John Plotz 27th February, pb, eb, £22, 9780691259277 Critical look at the aesthetic encounter with semi-detachment through literature and art.
Profile
Metamorphoses Karolina Watroba 2nd May, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800812741 Original, inventive, new biography of Franz Kafka and his readers.
Sceptre
Searching for Juliet Sophie Duncan 11th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781529365160 Cultural, historica, and literary exploration of the birth, death and legacy of the ultimate romantic heroine—Shakespeare’s Juliet Capulet.
Semiotext
Heroines Kate Zambreno, Jamie Hood 5th March, pb, £16.99, 9781635902082 Manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary Modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars. Reissued after more than a decade.
Syracuse University Press
Literary Optics Maha AbdelMegeed 15th March, pb, £29.95, 9780815638285 Compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analysing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones.
The Indigo Press
The Song of the Whole Wide World Tamarin Norwood 22nd February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781911648734 Extraordinary memoir of anticipatory grief, 72
minutes of life and a silent maternity leave.
TSB
Plum’s Literary Heroes Paul Kent 4th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781911673255 Considered the finest humorist in the English language, PG Wodehouse has inspired many others.
UCL Press
Selected Essays and Dialogues by Gianni Celati Patrick Barron (ed) 1st March, hb, £45, 9781800086418 pb, £25, 978180008641 digital, £0.99, 97818000865 Part of the Literature and Translation series that emphasises diversity of genre, culture, period and
approach. SERIES
From Shakespeare to Autofiction Martin Procházka (ed) 1st April, hb, £40, 9781800086562 pb, £20, 9781800086555 digital, £0.99, 9781800086579
University of Alberta Press
The Riel Problem Albert Braz 14th March, pb, eb, £26.99, 9781772127331 Charts how Louis Riel has been commemorated since 1967, demonstrating his transformation from a traitor to a Canadian hero.
Toward an Anti-racist Poetics Wayde Compton 15th February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781772127430 Seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that under- pins literary production and reception today.
University of Chicago Press
Something Speaks to Me Michel Chaouli 16th February, pb, eb, £20, 9780226830421 Account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us, written in the mode of a philosophical essay and drawing on wide range of writers, artists and thinkers.
The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War Jesse McCarthy 25th April, pb, eb, £20, 9780226832173 Explores the political and aesthetic evolution of
February 2024–July 2024 181
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140 |
Page 141 |
Page 142 |
Page 143 |
Page 144 |
Page 145 |
Page 146 |
Page 147 |
Page 148 |
Page 149 |
Page 150 |
Page 151 |
Page 152 |
Page 153 |
Page 154 |
Page 155 |
Page 156 |
Page 157 |
Page 158 |
Page 159 |
Page 160 |
Page 161 |
Page 162 |
Page 163 |
Page 164 |
Page 165 |
Page 166 |
Page 167 |
Page 168 |
Page 169 |
Page 170 |
Page 171 |
Page 172 |
Page 173 |
Page 174 |
Page 175 |
Page 176 |
Page 177 |
Page 178 |
Page 179 |
Page 180 |
Page 181 |
Page 182 |
Page 183 |
Page 184 |
Page 185 |
Page 186 |
Page 187 |
Page 188 |
Page 189 |
Page 190 |
Page 191 |
Page 192
