WINTER 2021 Catalog

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An Unruled Body: A Poet's Memoir

$26.00

By Ani Gjika

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire.

Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632063403
Publication date: Nov 14, 2023

De-Integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century

$22.00

By Max Czollek

Translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi

A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past—and a handbook for minorities on how to embrace their difference and resist rising nationalism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and racism.

Hardcover ISBN: 9781632063182
Publication date: Jan 10, 2023

The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language

$35.00

Edited by Ilan Stavans

A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English, featuring a tremendous array of essays, letters, poems, songs, speeches, stories, jeremiads, manifestos, and decrees across history, from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry Roth and Zora Neale Hurston, from Bob Dylan and James Baldwin to Richard Rodríguez and Amy Tan, from Tony Kushner and Toni Morrison to Louise Erdrich and Donald Trump.

Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632062659
Publication date: Feb 14, 2023

Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition

$22.00

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Translated from the Yiddish by Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and David Stromberg

Illustrations by Liana Finck

Afterword by David Stromberg

A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story—one of the most influential of the 20^th century—about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every joke. Singer's original Yiddish appears alongside his own partial translation, now completed and edited by writer and scholar David Stromberg, and the 1953 translation by fellow Nobel laureate Saul Bellow. With illustrations by Liana Finck and an afterword by David Stromberg.

Hardcover ISBN: 9781632060389
Publication date: March 14, 2023