Selections from upcoming books published by leading academic and trade presses, offering an early look at major new works.
“Praise Manhattan from a hundred and seven flights up, /like Atlantis glimpsed through the windows of an ancient aquarium.”
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“I have decided against going to Ground Zero today.”
“We gather on the lawn to take pictures of that eerie sunset. Somehow, it is beautiful, the sky’s last curtain call.”
“Democracy for Whitman is not just a form of government or a practice of politics; it is a nonconformist disposition and egalitarian way of life.”
“Gorson, a student and admirer of the dark scenes in the work of American painter James McNeill Whistler, found his métier in his newly adopted city, America’s mecca of industry.”
“Naomi’s department isn’t the only compromise. For Black women at a predominantly white school, education comes with a cost.”
“Leland Stanford was a man of iron and steel, of steam and electricity… The humorist Ambrose Bierce simply called him ‘£eland $tanford.'”
PRoB presents its third entry in our Summer Non-Beach Read Club’s consideration of Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans” with an excerpt from Francesca Wade’s Plutarch Award winning biography.
“America was a nation based upon a creed rather than notions of blood.”
Three poems from Maya Popa’s “If You Love That Lady.”
