Literary

A teenager finds solace in a diner full of grumpy seniors during the heydey of San Francisco punk. It's a mythological…

All ye searching for a heartbreak guide based on the classic Beowulf, rest from your search. Enjoy the way JM Farkas…

Prose, images, and poetry combine in this powerful, slim volume to paint a picture of race in the US right now. From…

What's better than a Katie Haegele book? We've now published three of her poignant, lyrical, down-to-earth works about,…

Seven years before The Town and the City launched Kerouac's writing career, he wrote his first novel that marked the…

Taking place in a future a nearly-total automation, you’re in for a wild ride as you follow Paul Proteus and his…

You'll get a feeling of life as a boy in Lowell Massachusetts, as well as the gripping events that happened in the…

In this three-part heady collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt challenges readers to question everything, especially the…

Our phallocentric culture often demonizes women, but especially single mothers who dare live a life outside of male…

This is a contributor issue of Cometbus. It's got a TON of stuff, including some gritty, experimental poems, an…

Animal Farm and 1984 author George Orwell served with the Imperial Police in Burma during his early adulthood, and his…

In a boarding school of uniformity, a pair of struggling teachers set their sights on quelling bullying and overcoming…

Expounding upon the characters and world by Alexander Pushkin, Queen of Spades dives into the poker world, following a…

Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren’t really sure what they mean?…

The third of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, considered by many to be…

A novel about family, love, depression, anxiety, having faith in each other, and helping each other through the most…

Charles Bukowski, poet, novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and cult figure of the dissident and rebellious, was…

“What is Structuralism? How is it possible? And once the structures of Structuralism have been discovered, how is…

Howard Zinn changed the way that history is written: his classic A People's History of the United States, published in…

Noam Chomsky has written over 30 books, is one of the most-quoted authors on Earth, and the New York Times calls him…

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time,…

24 postcards with timeless quotes infiltrated by the modern language which can be inferred within them. Proven to be…

Chris Terry's young adult novel Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia teen Kevin…

This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating…

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society…

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from…

Is any poem more infamous, or long, or definitive of its era than this epic yawp by Allen Ginsburg? Published in 1956 at…