Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratves’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculativefic=on to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. In “Rivers,” a free Jim meets up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s fate in the American Revolution;“On Brazil, or Dénouement”...

A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, Punksweaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems—from historic Black personalities, both familial and famous, to the poet's friends and lovers in gay bar...

Discover the timeless wisdom of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" in this comprehensive audiobook. This unabridged recording features the public domain translation by Lionel Giles, first published in 1910. With its profound insights on leadership, strategy, and conflict, this classic treatise remains an invaluable resource for business leaders, historians, and anyone seeking a competitive edge.This audiobook includes:- A short history of Chinese warfare by Brig. Gen. Thomas R. Phi...

Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaíma, by Mário de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their home in the northern Amazon for a whirlwind tour of Brazil, cramming four centuries and a continental expanse into a single mythic plane. Having lost a magic amulet, the hero and his brothers journey to São Paulo to retrieve...

A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josué Guébo’s poems combine elements of history and mythology.Guébo considers the Medite...

This volume collects the first four novels in the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, before the series was heavily rewritten and toned down in the late 1950s for a cautious, television-age audience. These mysteries, first published in 1930, feature a bolder, more headstrong version of America's most famous girl detective—sharp-tongued, resourceful, independent, and willing to bend the rules, take real chances, and face genuine danger to get to the truth. The girl in these pages doesn't w...

In the wake of the brutal massacre of Waldensian Protestants in the Piedmont region of Italy, John Milton penned a powerful and impassioned treatise, "On the Late Massacre in the Piedmont." This seminal work, written in 1655, is a scathing indictment of the Catholic Church's persecution of religious minorities. Milton's eloquent prose and unwavering defense of religious freedom have made this book a timeless classic, inspiring generations of readers to fight against tyranny and oppression....

Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervour and erotic sensuality, delight in life’s pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne. One of the foremost metaphysical poets, Donne’s ingenious metaphors and inspired use of language has earned him affection and reverence in near equal measure to Shakespeare. This collection of his finest poetry showcases the diverse range of his work, and includes Death Be Not Proud, A Hymn to Go...

17 horror Stories. One legendary music venue.We all know the old cliché: Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Now, add demons, other dimensions, monsters, revenge, human sacrifice, and a dash of the truly inexplicable. This is the story of the (fictional) San Francisco music venue, The Shantyman.In Welcome to the Show, seventeen of today's hottest writers of horror and dark fiction come together in devilish harmony to trace The Shantyman'...

"Genius—brilliant, polished and of considerable depth." —Ishmael ReedAn experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles—from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play an...

The Kitchen Table Translation issue of Aster(ix) Journal explores connections between translation and migration.Featuring the work of immigrant and diasporic translators, it brings personal, cultural, and political dimensions of translation together with literary and aesthetic aspects of the work, and compiles writing and translation from languages including Ahmaric, Arabic, French, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Mandarin, Ojibwe, Portuguese, Spanish, Telugu,...

Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. 'An Outtake' chronicles an escaped slave's take on liberty and the American Revolution; 'The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows' presents a bizarre series of events that ...