Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity. The modern day steampunk genre is a reinventing of the past through the eyes of its inventors and adven…
Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year Winner of the Susan Koppleman Award of the Popular Culture Association for Best Edited Collection in Women's Studies Joyce Dyer is director of writing and associate professor of En…
"Old-time religion" has been and still is a uniquely potent force in shaping the imaginations of southern fiction writers. A little more than a generation ago, Flannery O'Connor made a startling observation about herself and her fellow southerners: "By and large," she said, "peo…
"This collection includes not only well-known classics but also modern masterpieces, many of them previously censored. There are stories by acknowledged giants - Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn - and by equally great writers such as Platonov who have only recently becom…
by May, Elizabeth, Thakrar, Shveta, Suma, Nova Ren, Sharpe, Tess, Spotswood, Jessica, Mejia, Tehlor Kay, Cremer, Andrea R., Smith, Lindsay, Colbert, Brandy, Talley, Robin, Córdova, Zoraida, Yovanoff, Brenna, Hart, Kate, McLemore, Anna-Marie, Lord, Emery
"History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure--and to kill ... This co…
Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here by the leading authority on Jewish Latin American literature. First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan …
The traditional stories of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales transport us to the fantastical world of Celtic folklore. Translated and transcribed by folklorists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the 16 stories in this compilation conjure forgotten realms and rare m…
"The traditional stories of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales transport us to the fantastical world of Celtic folklore. These timeless tales brim with wit and magic, and each one is brought to life with elegant silhouette art in this special illustrated edition."--Page [4] …
A second edition, with a completely new contextual introduction and other new material, of a superb selection (first published in 1973 and for long out of print) of some of the best science fiction from continental Europe. Included are stories by Stanislaw Lem (Poland), Vsevolod…
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by O'Brien, Tim, King, Stephen, Sontag, Susan, Saunders, George, Walker, Alice, Liu, Ken, Danticat, Edwidge, Davis, Lydia, Johnson, Charles, Allison, Dorothy, Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Bambara, Toni Cade, Bass, Rick, Berlin, Lucia, Carver, Raymond, Chiang, Ted, Cisneros, Sandra, Díaz, Junot, Dybek, Stuart, Englander, Nathan, Erdrich, Louise, Everett, Percival, Groff, Lauren, Hemon, Aleksandar, Holleran, Andrew, Johnson, Denis, Kincaid, Jamaica, Lahiri, Jhumpa, Le Guin, Ursula K., Muñoz, Manuel, Otsuka, Julie, Paley, Grace, Russell, Karen, Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Watkins, Claire Vaye, Williams, Joy, Wolff, Tobias
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman.…
The Cocaine Chronicles joins The Speed Chronicles in launching Akashic & rsquo;s new anthology series styled after the Noir Series. Nothing to snort at, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. …
Wissenschaft meint seit jeher nicht nur theoretische Reflexion, sondern immer auch gesellschaftliche Praxis. Heute steht diese Praxis, die Welt der modernen Wissenschaften und ihrer institutionellen Formen mitten im Strom tiefgreifender Veränderungen - Exzellenzinitiativen und C…
An exciting new anthology from the journal Time magazine called "the biggest 'little magazine' in history." To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the venerable Paris Review, Picador is proud to publish a unique anthology based on the themes of modern life. Like the work of …
