Language and Literature

A queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.

This new book from Toby Miller engages with journalism from within the cultural studies tradition, addressing fundamental claims for the profession and its biggest contemporary challenges: critiques, objectivity, and insecurity. Why Journalism? A Polemic considers four key aspects of contemporary journalism in terms of theoretical relevance and historic tasks which are not usually considered in parallel: Citizenship: political, economic, and cultural Environment: the climate crisis and reporters' material impact Sports: the importance of the popular; and Technology: its former, current, and future significance With examples drawn from Latin America, Spain, and France as well as the US and Britain, the query animating these investigations returns again and again, implicitly and explicitly: why journalism? Miller argues for an answer to that dilemma that will involve a fundamental shift in how reporters, proprietors, professors, students, and states view the profession. This is essential reading for scholars and students of media and cultural studies as well as journalism studies--

One of Woolf's most experimental novels, this book presents six characters in monologue against the vivid background of the sea.

Flyfishing genius Gus Orviston, seeking refuge from his stuffy, world-famous father and ripsnorting cowgirl mother, embarks on a reluctant quest for meaning that leads him to an astonishing task.

Critiques the boundary between Victorian studies and Irish studies and interrogates how Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, and Bram Stoker leveraged reanimated bodies in their work to reimagine the past--

In The Movies of Racial Childhoods, Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century televisual and cinematic narrative representations of racialization and its impacts on the sovereignty of children, particularly Asian American and Asian children in independent global cinemas from the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Shimizu considers how cinema renders Asian American children and youth through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification, focusing on the portrayal of experiences of precarity and grief, how they are racialized, and how they affect different sexual identities and capacities. The book uses psychoanalytic approaches to understand the psychic and bodily process of their particular coming of age in cinematic representations. Framed by Shimizu's grief over losing her own child, she explores parental attachment as it relates to their sense of self as well as attachment relationships toward images, specifically through an affective register--

By reading Mary Shelley's pandemic novel The Last Man and gothic romance The Invisible Girl against the background of plague literature and international thought from ancient Greece to Covid-19, this book reveals how she shaped the classics of modern existentialism and dystopian political science fiction from H. G. Wells to Emily St. John Mandel. It is this Shelleyan literary tradition that has generated modern postapocalyptic political thought, which uses writing and other art to reflect upon the global existential question: What is to be done after a massive, human-made disaster?--

The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer's disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal how science and nature shape our everyday lives. With tremendous intelligence, clarity, and insight, this anthology offers an expansive look at where we are and where we are headed. -- Provided by publisher.

Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendor of Europe between the World Wars. A poignant ode to friendship, this breathless picaresque is performed with panache by an all-star cast.