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This gritty, sweeping novel recreates the life story of an American working-class woman and burgeoning political activist in the early 20th century.

A collection of essays, fiction, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, preserving the legacy of one of the Harlem Renaissance's greatest writers.

A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a 75-year-old British spinster, and Cub, a 13-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. Mary clings increasingly to phantoms and fantasies as dementia overtakes her reality. But her macabre romance with Cub comes to a horrific climax, as white supremacy, poverty, and class conflict explode on the streets of London.

First published in 1955 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, this novel revolves around a pair of stubborn adolescent girls who refuse to accept the racism and anti-Semitism of their respective communities. Their courage allows them to question and to cross over into the no-man's land of segregated urban neighborhoods, claimed most recently by Jews, but now, in the early fifties, increasingly by African-Americans. The New York Times praised "th...

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From Thailand's preeminent contemporary female writer, Duanwad Pimwana's first English-language collection is a social realist exploration of Thai culture.

Ellen has difficulty believing that God will take care of her when her dying mother leaves her with the unloving Mrs. Dunscombe.

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A young Guatemalan immigrant's adolescence is shaped by her journey to the US, as she grapples with Chapina tradition and American culture.

In this issue, contributors reflect on the histories, presents, and futures of protest through a feminist lens.

Both on and off the rez, interlinked characters contend with history and identity as contemporary members of the Seneca Nation.

In this surrealist novel, a woman's feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay.

This coming-of-age debut novel divulges the life of a Mexican American punk barely surviving high school.

A former police detective's addictions jeopardize a murder case in this iconic queer writer's return to pulp fiction.