425 results for '"Samson Wright'

Now an animated series with Paramount+ and Nickelodeon! Big Nate is in a class by himself. This feisty 11-year-old holds the school record for detentions, but that doesn't stop him from dreaming big!...

Now an animated series with Paramount+ and Nickelodeon! Middle school is back in session and so is the New York Times bestselling series that's been brightening the funny papers for almost 30 years!...

"Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim...

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardA gripping and inventive reimagining of Wuthering Heights, by award-winning author Caryl PhillipsIn the tradition of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and J. M...

This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the...

An “arresting . . . bracing and affecting volume” (Booklist) that “brims with curiosity and cosmopolitanism” (Publishers Weekly), Color Me English was hailed in the Guardian as one of the best books...

This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the...

"I may assert Eternal ProvidenceAnd justify the ways of God to men"John Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. His...

In the twenty-two months covered by this volume, Jefferson spent most of his time at Monticello, where in his short-lived retirement from office he turned in earnest to the renovation of his...

The deeply personal and political work of internationally acclaimed Australian artist, Tracey Moffatt, published to accompany an exhibition at the 2017 Venice BiennaleTracey Moffatt is arguably...

In 'Moved to Tears', Rebecca Bedell overturns received ideas about sentimental art. Countering its association with trite and saccharine Victorian kitsch, Bedell argues that major American...

An updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Obstacle Is the Way presents an infinitely elastic formula for turning our toughest trials into our greatest...

Born in St. Kitts and brought up in the UK, bestselling author Caryl Phillips has written about and explored the experience of migration for more than thirty years through his spellbinding and...

In its first issue, published a quarter of a century ago, Conjunctions established itself immediately as a major journal of international literary arts, with contributors including Paul Bowles,...

In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices within...

Reading the poetry of Dan Gerber, we are summoned to this larger truth: Though we live in fraught times, on the tipping point of human self-destruction, we and our planet are still very much alive.In...

Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsHonorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationAn...

MAP NEIGHBORHOOD COVERAGE:The Loop, the Prairie Avenue Historic District, the McCormick Convention Center, Fulton Market West, River North, Michigan Avenue and Lincoln Park. There is also an...

"Malae is like a young Nelson Algren or Richard Wright, one of those writers who can hit with both hands." --Russell Banks By way of Italy, the Felice family puts down new roots in Southern...

How New York intellectuals interpreted and wrote about Castro's revolution in the 1960sNew York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil...