Essays, Criticism, Memoirs
PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS: REPORTS FROM A HAUNTED PRESENT
Written by Horn, Dara
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager.
JERSEY BREAKS: BECOMING AN AMERICAN POET
Written by Pinsky, Robert
In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet.
SIMENON: THE MAN, THE BOOKS, THE FILMS
Written by Forshaw, Barry
The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; André Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'.
PHILIP LARKIN: LETTERS HOME
Written by Larkin, Philip
The last outstanding unpublished facet of Larkin's writing life: his correspondence 'home' to his father, mother and sister.
LOVE ME TENDER
Written by Debre, Constance
A novel of lesbian identity and motherhood, and the societal pressures that place them in opposition. The daughter of an illustrious French family whose members include a former Prime Minister, a model, and a journalist, Constance Debré abandoned her marriage and legal career in 2015 to write full-time and begin a relationship with a woman.
SPICILEGE
Written by Schwob, Marcel
Exquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob
ON WHITENESS: THE RACIAL IMAGINARY INSTITUTE
Writers and thinkers from Lauren Berlant to Jeff Chang explore the power structures, the "neutrality" and the frailty of whiteness
SEEING MAKING ROOM FOR THOUGHT
Written by Michaels, Adam
Renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with conceptual apparel label Boot Boyz Biz's Kevin McCaughey and Inventory Press' Adam Michaels on this experimental image-text update of McLuhan and Benjamin