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Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing wri...

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Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider...

As a serial killer stalks prostitutes in Columbus, Ohio, a distraught brother asks private inv...

It’s a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute...

The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that tra...

Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagas...

Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poe...

Between 1600 and 1800, the promise of fresh food attracted more than seven hundred English, Frenc...

Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, produ...

This biography of Twala, an unjustly neglected Black African literary figure in apartheid South A...