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The Lure of Their Graves by Lau­ra R. Samotin

The Lure of Their Graves by Lau­ra R. Samotin

In the heart-wrenching sequel to The Sins on Their Bones, The Lure of Their Graves forces Dimitri and Vasily to confront old ghosts and a new threat: political enemies-turned-suitors, all coveting Dimitri’s throne and...

A Pre­cise Chaos by Jo-Ann Mort

A Pre­cise Chaos by Jo-Ann Mort

A life-long commitment to social evolution – and, occasionally, revolution – animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort’s debut collection, A Precise Chaos. Moving from Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taormina, Mort’s peripatetic poems reflect...

A Prayer of Six Wings by Owen Lewis

A Prayer of Six Wings by Owen Lewis

No grief should be privileged, and no grief should be silenced. A Prayer of Six Wings is an account of the poet Owen Lewis’s experience in the year following Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood Massacre on...

The Jews of Edirne by Jacob Daniels

The Jews of Edirne by Jacob Daniels

The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the...

The Scrap­book by Heather Clark

The Scrap­book by Heather Clark

The traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism echo and reverberate through the present in this story of a lifechanging seduction. Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she falls hard...