Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
Edited by Billy Collins; Paintings by David Allen Sibley

The bird poems of Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, Robert Creeley, Catullus, Chaucer and many others.

The Best American Magazine Writing 2009
Edited by The American Society of Magazine Editors; Introduction by Chris Anderson

Contributors include Naomi Klein, James Wood, Roger Rosenblatt, Hanna Rosin, and other award-winning journalists and writers.

The Portable Cixous
Edited by Marta Segarra

"The Portable Cixous gives to its public a clear sense of Hélène Cixous's breadth and diversity. It also attests to her prodigious talents as a poet and writer." — Verena Conley, Harvard University

China and India: Prospects for Peace
Jonathan Holslag

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Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
Hans Kundnani

Read reviews from The Guardian and The New Statesman.

The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse
Siobhan Phillips

"This book deserves wide appreciation ... Phillips writes about poetry sensitively, synthetically, and with exemplary care." — Stephen Burt, Harvard University