Treating Philip Roth as a war writer—as well as a sportswriter, crime reporter, political commentator, and Newark chronicler—Roth’s Wars: A Career in Conflict offers a thoroughly researched account of the novelist’s preoccupation with wars around the world and wars at home. This wide-ranging social and cultural history of Roth’s career examines intersections between Roth’s preoccupations as a writer and the work of contemporaries, such as J.D. Salinger, Joan Didion, George Plimpto...

He never touched her. He just spent a year teaching his wife not to trust her own eyes.For twenty-six years, Renee Caldwell held the middle of everything — three kids, a house in Spokane, a marriage she thought she could read from the driveway. Then the last child leaves, the house goes quiet, and in that new silence she starts to notice things. A location pin that jumps and freezes. A playlist named like a work meeting. A phone turned face-down on the desk in one ...

For centuries, humankind has wondered what is "out there" and has embarked on countless voyages to find out. This book traces the history and literature of the imaginary voyage--stories of mariners journeying through uncharted waters to find strange and marvelous sights. Well-told tales of adventurous journeys--The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea--conjure up images that transcend our mundane lan...

Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. With its simultaneous interest in American popular culture and the work of the most important living American writer to-date, the collection will hold wide appeal to advanced readers in American studies, literary scholarship, and film.

Gold Medal from the Military Writers Society of America, Readers' Favorite Award Winner, Golden Leaf Award WinnerWhat do you do when the person you most want to protect is the one risking everything to make sure you survive?It started as a chance encounter on the beach, and ended 24 hours later when they parted to go their separate ways.Or so they thought.WHEN LAUREN CANTRELL said goodbye to the guy she had just met on the beach, she had no way of knowing their ...

Hot for teacher: A shy librarian has to study up when she meets the experienced professor who has her number.Professor Maxwell Radclyffe is no stranger to great sex. As Talmadge University’s human sexualities professor, he’s intimately familiar with the carnal desires that drive . . . well, everyone. So of course it makes him crazy that the university’s new and seductively demure librarian is strictly off limits. Stressed to the max and needing a little release, he...

Fleeing from the man she loves, psychic FBI agent Jess Bryant finds herself captured.There’s no way he’s coming for her after she ran out on him. With no other choice, Jess is forced to reveal the truth to her captor, betraying David in the process. She doesn’t want to let him go, but she’d never forgive herself if he risked his life because of her.David Woods can’t stand by with Jess in danger, especially since it’s his fault.After saving her life ...

A definitive edition that introduces a major American poet to a new generation of readersAccording to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read and largely unknown when he died in 2008. This definitive edition of Feinman's complete work, which includes fifty-seven previo...

'Holy emotions, Batman … this one broke my heart and stitched it back together again' ★★★★★The first in a gritty, emotional, small-town romance series set on the windswept Cornish coast.Every summer, he'd ask me to stay. Every summer, I'd promise to come back. Until I didn't.Isla Quinn had no plans to return to Sea Salt Bay. But after the worst year of her life, she finds herself back at her grandmother’s cottage, facing the past she thought she’d left behi...

He deleted fourteen months of Thursdays. He never imagined she'd kept the receipts.For thirty-one years, Lorraine Holcomb kept the porch light on and the dinner warm. She timed the chicken, set the table, and waited for a husband who came home later every week smelling of cold and cardboard dust, with the same tired sentence at the door. She had learned to explain his absences to herself. She was good at it. It was the thing she was best at.Then a folded ch...

For four years, Adriana could finish anyone's sentence but her husband's. She'd been arranged into the Marchetti family the way the silver and the art were arranged — chosen by his mother, approved in a charcoal dress, installed in a beautiful house where the name on the deed was a name she'd declined to take.Then she found the laptop open, a playlist she didn't recognize, and understood the marriage she'd kept alive through sheer competence had never once ...

This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of objectification, often justifiably so. But as this book argues and illustrates, male gazing can also be understood as an illuminating, intellectually engaging, aesthetically compelling, and even polit...