Powerful poetry and prose offers accessible analyses of women’s lives, regardless of race, age, or nationality. The fourth edition of This Bridge Called My Back returns to... Read More

More than one in ten of all children in the US and Europe are born to fathers who are age forty and older. At forty-seven, Lee Gutkind became one such “old new dad,” a term... Read More

For those who’ve never ventured into a boxing gym, the sport can sometimes seem the brutal, mysterious realm of grizzled trainers and hardened athletes. In that light, the... Read More

Has Kurt Vonnegut’s time come and gone? By the mid-1970s, after the successes of Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut was a major literary figure. No author of... Read More

First published in 1987, and now released as part of the SUNY Press series “Women in Translation,” this book is a cornerstone of modern Italian feminist literature. Politics... Read More

What kind of food will people eat in the future? Will it be healthful? Will there be enough? Who should be growing the food, and where should it be grown? Is there any... Read More

In the tradition of poets who could make poetry pay—Byron, McKuen, Collins—William Cullen Bryant earned his place by having once been offered the princely sum of $1,000 in... Read More

Bialystok, Brooklyn, and Miami Beach—these are the cities brought to life in Living Root. Bialystok was the Russian-Polish city from which Heller’s grandfather, a rabbi and... Read More