The Kindness of Women

BALLARD,J.G.

Literature & Fiction

FSG.

The author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love continues his portrait of America through the eyes of immigrants with the story of an intensely feminine Cuban-Irish family of fourteen daughters and its one doggedly masculine son.

Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien

HIJUELOS, OSCAR

Contemporary

The Men's Club.

MICHAELS, Leonard

Joseph Cornell was one of the most original and extraordinary American artists of the twentieth century. Born in 1903, he lived almost all his life with his mother and badly handicapped brother in a house on Utopia Parkway, Queens, New York. A recluse, with no formal artistic training, Cornell had an obsessive fear of female sexuality (he died a virgin) but fantasized about ballerinas and film stars, preferably long dead. These fantasies were expressed in his remarkable 'shadow boxes', the constructions on which his artistic reputation rests. Admired by the Surrealists, then the Abstract Expressionists and finally by the pop artists, Cornell remained a unique figure, both as an artist and a human being.

Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell

Solomon, Deborah

Shadows on the Hudson

SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS

Literary

A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere WifeNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf―and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world―there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us. A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history―Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. This is a translation for the twenty-first century, to be released in 2019 alongside the paperback of Headley’s novel The Mere Wife.

Beowulf: A New Translation

Headley, Maria Dahvana

United States

Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of The Vanities

WOLFE, Tom.

The dust jacket has a closed tear to the bottom fore edge corner of the front cover.

The desire of my eyes: The life and work of John Ruskin

Arts & Photography

Kemp, Wolfgang

History & Criticism

But then, from way off, with cranking comes my night, and when it arrives I go to it like a callboy to a c-note. --"My Interior"
"Jeff Clark's poems . . . marry the stoned reveries of our postmodern era with the symbolist bliss of a previous one . . . In meticulously crafted verse and prose poems, The Little Door Slides Back offers the reader glimpses of a shadow world, seen by a visionary who has a clear strategy for depicting them." --*Ruth Andrews, Rain Taxi
"A 120-page spell . . . This is a beautiful work whose accuracy edges on the uncanny. Within, among, and around it all is presence, an almost hallucinogenic immediacy in which everything is seen and is in turn seeing." --Cole Swenson, American Letters &amp; Commentary
"Clark integrates fin-de-siècle richness, hallucinatory vision, and a gothicism extracted from the bleak cul-de-sacs of postmodern life . . . constructing a flaneur who is both terrified and bemused by the world he enters as 'the little door slides back.'"--John Yau, Boston Review

The Little Door Slides Back

Clark, Jeff

Poetry

In Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.

The Message in The Bottle

Percy., Walker

Essays & Correspondence

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