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Return to the Place I Never Left
“Schiff’s book, a Holocaust memoir in verse, excellently translated by Dani James, is a literary discovery.
“Because of the immediacy of the verse, close to the oral tradition, the reader is forced to think about the relationship between text and reality, between the writer as artist and the writer as witness.” ~Arnon Grunberg, author of Blue Mondays
New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts
Rediscovering a momentous cinema movement, its canonization, and its recasting through global discourse.
“Critically reimagining the historical framework and thematic possibilities of New German Cinema to include less conventional filmmakers, films, topics, forms, and global influences, the stunning collection of essays that spans New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts presents an illuminating return to one of Europe’s most important film movements.” ~Olivia Landry, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Lives of Jewish Things
“The Lives of Jewish Things speaks with rare and thoughtful eloquence to our own fraught historical moment, a time of heightened awareness of the power of performativity and keen sensitivity to topics such as appropriation, cultural ownership, and identity. … A true gem!”
~Laura Lieber, professor for the transregional history of religion, University of Regensburg
Specters of the Marvelous
A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales.
“Fairy-tale studies has needed this book for a long time. With meticulous historical and narrative analysis, Kimberly J. Lau lays out a consummate reckoning of racism in the European tale tradition.”
~Kay Turner, coeditor of Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (Wayne State University Press), and founder of the What a Witch project
Your Comrade, Avreml Broide
A working-class radical revolutionary’s tale—penned by a prominent union leader—now available in English for the first time!
