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Anselm Oelze

Die da oben

Drei Frauen und ein Haus, in dem sie aufeinandertreffen - und entscheiden müssen, was sie retten wollen: ihre Überzeugungen oder die Beziehungen zu den Menschen, die sie lieben.Als Tess mit ihrer Freundin…

Alanna Skuse

Hurt Feelings

This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early modern literature. It looks at depictions of self-injury in ballads, plays, medical texts…

Janet Tay

Early Mornings at the Laksa Cafe

A mouthwatering and uplifting family story about honouring tradition and finding your own way in life, set in family-run restaurants between Malaysia and Hong Kong, perfect for those who love to discover …

Dominic Pettman

Telling the Bees

"Insects as a companion species? In Pettman's engaging and beautifully composed bestiary, writing for animals is writing with animals. Telling the Bees is a smart, at times bitterly funny, and persis…

Mara Gold

Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men

Meet the goddesses, warriors, witches, and monsters who shaped and subverted womanhood from the very beginning.Was Circe really just a temptress?  Were the Amazons nothing more than bloodthirsty fighters?…

Mary Coughlan

Life Stories

Anna Shechtman

The Riddles of the Sphinx

"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."---New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confession…

Paul Cornell

The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s

The Avengers was thecomic book of the 1970s. From Civil Rights to Women's Lib, battles for the soul of America became battles between super heroes.Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby co-created the all-…

Stuart Moore

Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic

Explore the Stories Behind the LegendsEnter a world where reality bends, and magic reigns supreme.From psychedelic dimensions to counterculture cool, Doctor Strange was unlike anything else in comics. One…

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic

A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicen…

Jesse Kavadlo

Rock of Pages

Identifies how "dangerous" 1980s heavy metal can be analyzed through literary criticism, how heavy metal helps us understand what's dangerous about literature, and why metal music matters.

Amy Motlagh

Colorblind

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of b…

Verheißung und Verlust

Der Band fragt nach dem Verhältnis des aus der Reformation hervorgegangenen Protestantismus zum geistesgeschichtlichen Impuls der Romantik und bietet zugleich weiterführende Reflexionen zur Rolle der Reli…

Andrea Horbinski

Manga's First Century

"Manga are big. And in the growing field of manga studies, Andrea Horbinski's work is a standout. With years of deep research, rich new insights, and sparkling prose, Manga's First Century will delig…

Michael Thomas

The Broken King

From Reconstruction, to Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and beloved, trauma and recovery, race and de-racination in a beautifully unique memoir.

James Reichert

Literature for the Masses

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It highlights the important cultural and ideological work…

Jules Kielmann

Wechselwirkungen

Die Schriftstellerin Amalie von Helvig, geb. von Imhoff (1776-1831), galt lange Zeit als Paradebeispiel jenes "weiblichen" Dilettantismus, wie ihn Goethe und Schiller Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts v…

Savala Nolan

Good Woman

A raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations---from a writer Roxane Gay calls "vibrant and thoughtful."Gorgeous, b…

Alice M Chapman-Kelly,

Fanfiction as Queer Healing

The first book-length exploration of femflash fanfiction and its implications for wider fan communities, this text presents new theories of queer, fan, and fantasy time based on fan-authored works inspire…