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The Young Poland literary movement, active from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, was crucial in revitalizing Polish literature and culture during a period of political partition and cul...

One of Russia’s lesser-known poets worked as an actor, a waiter, a soldier and a military officer in the years after the Bolshevik Revolution and the

Reviewed by Eric Bies

The author of “Promise Land” on clashes in the boardroom and the courtroom that came after the money ran out.

A historian chronicles an 1883 trial concerning the sale of pornographic materials.

The scramble to claw money back from Puerto Rico’s insolvent government is recapped by an official charged with overseeing its b...

Boris Dralyuk’s latest work of translation is Alexander Voloshin’s poetic epic about a Ukrainian exile lost in Hollywood.

Check out new poetry books for the week of 6/9 from Roof Books, University of Calgary Press, Fire Ant Books, Kaya Press, Dial Press, Holy Cow! Press & Paul Dry Books.

Puerto Rico’s colonial status made its debt crisis inevitable. Review: Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, David Skeel

For a special Memorial Day program, we examine how veterans navigate the complexities of the healthcare system, and we highlight the critical need for specialized care for service members after servic...

A.E. Stallings’s reflections on the Elgin Marbles illustrate how beautiful objects have the power to inspire both the noblest effusions and the pettiest efforts at acquisition.

YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York

82-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 9781589881877 Publication Date 4/9/2024"Among the finest poets of his generation.”—Richard Wilbur, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry "Like Frost b...

Boris Dralyuk, who has two new books coming out, talks about getting the poet Henri Coulette published again.

Afterword by David Mason106-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 9781589882164Publication Date: 6/9/2026 (available for preorder)"Livewell’s lyrics, frequently set in his home city of Philadelphia, rem...

A.E. Stallings’s reflections on the Elgin Marbles illustrate how beautiful objects have the power to inspire both the noblest effusions and the pettiest efforts at acquisition.

A.E. Stallings’s reflections on the Elgin Marbles illustrate how beautiful objects have the power to inspire both the noblest effusions and the pettiest efforts at acquisition.

Reviewed by James M. Fisher

In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired.

220-page paperback / 5" x 8" / ISBN 9781589881969Publication Date: 12/3/2024A unique book about opera—personal, impassioned, and provocative.  Weep, Shudder, Die explores opera from the perspective by...

The Vermont author’s absorbing historical novel delves into the scientific discoveries and the tumultuous love life of the woman who discovered radium.