Black lesbian feminist Cheryl Clarke’s five-decade poetry career accommodated a second pursuit—a little matter of changing the world to be a better place for Black women,... Read More

Careening towards the apocalypse, we’d be choosy about sitting shotgun next to anyone but a poet. Who else could keep the conversation lively with brimstone on the breath? C.... Read More

Michele Weldon’s diverting essays concern womanhood and are written from the vantage of her sixties. From childhood forward, Weldon discusses her career, friendships, and... Read More

Soviet Jews faced anti-Zionist actions within the USSR; under pressure from human rights campaigns, they were finally offered opportunities for emigration, though leaving was... Read More

A century of American race relations is seen in "Sacred Ground", civil rights activist and historian Timuel D. Black Jr.’s story as it was related to, and recorded by, Susan... Read More

Jan Yoors achieved international fame as a tapestry artist in the bohemian New York scene of the 1960s, but that barely qualifies among the most interesting parts of his life.... Read More

Babel’s remarkable ability to portray self-preservation stands out. Born in Odessa and known for his tragicomic, often violent collages of Jewish characters, Isaac Babel is... Read More

This novel is a masterful portrait of individuals who find solace where they can, and who endure through personal disillusionment. Ludmila Ulitskaya’s "The Kukotsky Enigma" is... Read More

A mesmerizing account of the life of John Keats set against the background of spiritual pursuits. Part literary criticism and part memoir, this empathetic analysis of renowned... Read More

Anticipation over the arrival of "Missing" centers on the author’s connection to William Maxwell, legendary fiction editor at The New Yorker and old friend of Cornelia Maude... Read More

This author 1870—1953), who won the Nobel Prize in 1933 for his fictionalized autobiography Life of Arseniev, and whose The Elaghin Affair and Other Stories was translated by... Read More

These poems reach into the throat and down through the bowels to the center of the earth, from where they pull up stones and wind and water, and blood and tears and wonder. They... Read More