Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
10 best books like Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation (Paul Kriwaczek): The Flight Portfolio, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, Growing Things and Other Stories, The Wall, Henry, Himself, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Go, Went, Gone, Lost and Wanted, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
| Author | Julie Orringer |
| ISBN | 0307959406 |
The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.
In 1940,...
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
| Author | Casey Cep |
| ISBN | 1101947861 |
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.
Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help...
Growing Things and Other Stories
| Author | Paul Tremblay |
| ISBN | 0062679147 |
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting...
| Author | John Lanchester |
| ISBN | 1324001631 |
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019
Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate...
| Author | Stewart O'Nan |
| ISBN | 0735223041 |
A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new novel from a modern master
Stewart O’Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience of ordinary...
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
| Author | Tadeusz Borowski |
| ISBN | 0140186247 |
Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference...
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue.
Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here,...
| Author | Nell Freudenberger |
| ISBN | 0385352689 |
'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently.'
Helen Clapp is a physics professor. She doesn't believe in pseudo-science, or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when she gets a missed call from Charlie, her closest friend from university...
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
| Author | Sabrina Strings |
| ISBN | 1479886750 |
How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years
There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black...
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
| Author | Dorothy Roberts |
| ISBN | 0679758690 |
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black...
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
| Author | Lillian Faderman |
| ISBN | 0300222610 |
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities
Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San...
| Author | Caryl Churchill |
| ISBN | 1559360992 |
In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, homosexuals—and still finds time for an affair with a widowed neighbor. The same family appears in Act Two 25 years older and back in London, only now it’s 1979.Cloud 9 is about relationships - between...
| Author | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins |
| ISBN | 0743467698 |
Of One Blood is the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be "the most prolific African-American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the first decade of the twentieth century, though she is one of the lesser known literary figures of the much...
| Author | Frederick Douglass |
| ISBN | 1604592362 |
The Heroic Slave was Frederick Douglass' only piece of fiction. He wrote it in response to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society's request for a submission to be included in their anthology Autographs for Freedom. The Heroic Slave is a retelling of an actual rebellion led by Madison Washington...
| Author | John Fox |
| ISBN | 0312104332 |
Written with uncanny precision and wild humor, this is the story of Billy Connors, high school student in the Bronx, member of the swim team, and all-around regular guy, who in his sixteenth year has to face the fact that he's a little different from everyone else, a little "weird."
Though he's...
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
| Author | Sarah Hurwitz |
| ISBN | 0525510710 |
*Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)* by Sarah Hurwitz is a beautiful book about Judaism. If will stirr your soul and touch your heart. If you are Jewish it will remind you of the beauty of your religion....
| Author | Ayelet Tsabari |
| ISBN | 1443447889 |
An unforgettable memoir about a young woman who tries to outrun loss, but eventually finds a way home.
Ayelet Tsabari was 21 years old the first time she left Tel Aviv with no plans to return. Restless after two turbulent mandatory years in the Israel Defense Forces, Tsabari longed to get away....
Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience
| Author | Michelle Murphy |
| ISBN | 0822353369 |
In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control,...
The Beggar's Opera and Polly
| Author | John Gay |
| ISBN | 0199642222 |
"Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives."
Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly--published together here for the first time--offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in...
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
| Author | Richard Plant |
| ISBN | 0805006001 |
This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands...
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
| Author | Tey Meadow |
| ISBN | 0520275047 |
Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call...
| Author | Édouard Louis |
| ISBN | 2021177785 |
J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre heures du matin. Il m’a abordé dans la rue et j’ai fini par lui proposer de monter dans mon studio. Ensuite, il m’a raconté l’histoire de son enfance et celle de l’arrivée en France de son...
| Author | Brad Leithauser |
| ISBN | 0525655034 |
A comic novel about a Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing prospects for happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime.
Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing...
Totally unrelated to my reading of this book: I must be in the Top 10 of Mishima fans in North London and, you know what?, I found out about this publication by myself. I feel that I give and I give all of myself to the internet on the understanding that they'll tell me about important stuff like this. Where...
Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis
| Author | Georgiann Davis |
| ISBN | 1479887048 |
When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to “protect” the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis...
The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother
This Broadview edition pairs the first Gothic novel with the first Gothic drama, both by Horace Walpole.
Published on Christmas Eve, 1764, on Walpole’s private press at Strawberry Hill, his Gothicized country house, The Castle of Otranto became an instant and immediate classic of the...
The Best American Short Stories 2019
| Author | Anthony Doerr |
| ISBN | 1328484246 |
#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019.
“As soon as you complete a description of what a good story...
Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops
| Author | Ken Mandelbaum |
| ISBN | 0312082738 |
Not Since Carrie is Ken Mandelbaum's brilliant survey of Broadway's biggest flops. This highly readable and entertaining book highlights almost 200 musicals created between 1950 and 1990, framed around the notorious musical adaptation of Carrie, and examines the reasons for their failure. "Essential...
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
We believe we know our bodies intimately--that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties....
