Unexpected and Unexplained Intellectual Exchanges between British and Indian Women Writers 1840-1940
What intellectual exchanges occurred between British and Indian women writers during the colonial period? Why does recovering these conversations fundamentally challenge our understanding of empire, nationalism, and gendered subalternity? And what methodological interventions does archival recovery demand of postcolonial scholarship? Purna Banerjee's archival investigation began with a revealing discovery: deteriorating issues of The Indian Ladies Magazine in Kolkata's National Library-never catalogued, never preserved, never analysed. What emerged from these crumbling pages rewrites the historiography of colonial modernity. Drawing on travel narratives, New Woman novels, and periodical correspondence, Banerjee documents a transnational 'female counter-public sphere' where women engaged in complex intellectual exchanges. From Mary Frere's subversive retellings of Indian folklore to Victoria Cross's provocative Anna Lombard, from Pandita Ramabai's strategic Christian conversion to Krishnabhabini Das's critical ethnography-these writers negotiated what Simon Gikandi terms the 'complicity/resistance dialectic', simultaneously inhabiting and critiquing colonial and nationalist patriarchies. Theorising through Habermas, Bhabha, and Spivak, Banerjee demonstrates how women constructed hybrid identities that resist metropolitan/peripheral binaries. Their fragmented narratives-spanning the 1835 Minute on Indian Education to the 1929 Sarda Act-reveal collaborative activism shaping social reform, educational policy, and women's rights across national boundaries. This study makes crucial interventions in postcolonial literary studies, subaltern historiography, and transnational feminism. By radically reorganising the colonial archive, Banerjee recovers the intellectual labour that traditional scholarship has systematically marginalised, offering new methodologies for reading women's agency in the empire. Purna Banerjee is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Constance Fulmer Award in Mentorship, conferred by the British Women Writers Association (BWWA), USA. She has published on Victorian novels, nineteenth-century travel literatures, periodicals, twentieth-century displaced women's narratives from Indo-Bangladesh border and contemporary social-media-driven protest movements. Feminist, postcolonial, and subaltern theories are the lenses through which she critiques all cultural and literary texts. Purna returned home to Kolkata (India) and joined Presidency University, as an Associate Professor of English. For the previous two decades she lived and taught in the USA (Associate Professor of English, the Co-Director of Gender Studies, Millikin University, 2005 to 2013 & again in 2015). She received her MA degree (1999) from the University of Rochester (NY, USA) and her PhD (2005) from Texas Christian University (TX, USA).
Love and Limerence
First released twenty years ago, Love and Limerence has become a classic in the psychology of emotion. As relevant today as it was then, this book offers insight into love, infatuation, madness, and all flavors of emotion in between.
Poems
Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is a significant collection of nineteenth-century poetry addressing themes of freedom, faith, justice, and human dignity. Through lyrical verse and moral reflection, Harper gives voice to the experiences, hopes, and struggles of African Americans during a period of profound social change.Her poetry blends spiritual insight with social conscience, confronting slavery, racial injustice, and gender inequality while affirming resilience and moral strength. This collection highlights Harper's role as one of the earliest and most influential African American poets, whose work helped shape Black literary and abolitionist traditions.This book is ideal for readers interested in African American poetry, abolitionist literature, women's writing, and nineteenth-century American literary history.
McSweeney's Issue 81 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Step inside the stunningly illustrated bugs-at-dusk pages of McSweeney's 81 to devour a portfolio of paintings by Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure Percival Everett; new stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa, Ashley Nelson Levy, Sam Munson, and Shruti Swamy; a queer Dracula comic by Michael DeForge; and an essay by octogenarian Suzanne Rhodenbaugh in which the story of her life is told in devastatingly brief, decade-long increments; alongside letters by Katie Peterson, Susanna Kwan, Simon Han, and so much more. In this issue, there are swans, mermaids, a Frankenstein with daddy issues, poorly adjusted angels, the afterlife told from three different angles, the gig economy, collage theory, meme theory, murdered uncles, stillbirths, the Berlin wall, closeted lesbians studying abroad in Florence, Gypsy camps in Switzerland, bikini lines, the Chicago Seven, treehouses, and the draft. The iridescent worlds of this issue are manifold and teeming. Flip open the gorgeous cover illustrated by Sean Lewis and start reading.
The Dawn
This moving collection of short stories, essays and poems makes you wonder deeply about everything in this world.The stories are deep and eye catching makes you feel like you are the one who lived them.Then you come to the essays; you realise that you don't know much about the world you live in.Then the poetry plays with your heart rhythms, making you smile for no reason.
STAND FOR SOMETHING -Or- THE BLOOD NEVER FORGETS
A violent attack can strike anyone at any time, anywhere without clear cause or reason. The third book in our Dani Series begins on a beautiful day in June when Dani has every reason to be happy and not a clue her family's lives are about to be wrecked. The aftermath of the event is traumatic, of course, but trauma is insidious like an illness that spreads in complex ways; but unlike an illness, trauma digs in for the long haul even as the shock fades; it might even fool us and pretend to be gone altogether, when it is only hiding and waiting to strike again unexpectedly like the violence that caused it.As usually happens, victims of violence are left to pick up the pieces and go on with their lives; and that's really the story Dani has written. The picking up part and the going on. There is a morning after, a new day; and that's sometimes where the best part of life can begin. But first, one has to survive the pain of the memories."Shouldn't I be trying to forget?" asks Dani."No," says her Grandpa. "It is a mistake to forget...You cannot snuff out your most powerful memories. Trying to is futile...you can't move on without them and you can't fight them. They always win. What you need to do is keep them alive, give them a portal and a way for them to come and go through that portal, and when they come they will speak to you and give you strength. So it is very important to listen to your memories. That is what the good medicine is. On one side is the memory-speaking one, on the other is you the listening one."At some level, we could say this story, this very book, is the memory speaking, and you the reader are the listener, for, as Dani's story reveals, the trauma belongs to all of us. The story, as told by Dani herself as a third-person observer, threads her narrative tightly through her own character, a technique that creates urgency and tension and, for the reader, a personal sense of experience.
STAND FOR SOMETHING -Or- THE BLOOD NEVER FORGETS
A violent attack can strike anyone at any time, anywhere without clear cause or reason. The third book in our Dani Series begins on a beautiful day in June when Dani has every reason to be happy and not a clue her family's lives are about to be wrecked. The aftermath of the event is traumatic, of course, but trauma is insidious like an illness that spreads in complex ways; but unlike an illness, trauma digs in for the long haul even as the shock fades; it might even fool us and pretend to be gone altogether, when it is only hiding and waiting to strike again unexpectedly like the violence that caused it.As usually happens, victims of violence are left to pick up the pieces and go on with their lives; and that's really the story Dani has written. The picking up part and the going on. There is a morning after, a new day; and that's sometimes where the best part of life can begin. But first, one has to survive the pain of the memories."Shouldn't I be trying to forget?" asks Dani."No," says her Grandpa. "It is a mistake to forget...You cannot snuff out your most powerful memories. Trying to is futile...you can't move on without them and you can't fight them. They always win. What you need to do is keep them alive, give them a portal and a way for them to come and go through that portal, and when they come they will speak to you and give you strength. So it is very important to listen to your memories. That is what the good medicine is. On one side is the memory-speaking one, on the other is you the listening one."At some level, we could say this story, this very book, is the memory speaking, and you the reader are the listener, for, as Dani's story reveals, the trauma belongs to all of us. The story, as told by Dani herself as a third-person observer, threads her narrative tightly through her own character, a technique that creates urgency and tension and, for the reader, a personal sense of experience.
THE THREE-SIDED COINS -Or- THE GOOD ZONE PLAN
Dani's a girl who in Book One faced monumental body image issues. But taking the advice from her new friend, and with steely determination, she now faces a whole new set of problems she never bargained for-how to protect herself from herself.The beauty coin seems to have three sides. It seems beauty comes in a package: one side is what you get when you quit with your unhealthy habits, lose seventy pounds, and peel off the mask that hides a girl of the Northeast Tribes; the second part is love and sex, which comes drifting in and tries to swallow you up; and the third part is your dreams and how you and your brand-new beautiful self are a threat to them.
THE THREE-SIDED COINS -Or- THE GOOD ZONE PLAN
Dani's a girl who in Book One faced monumental body image issues. But taking the advice from her new friend, and with steely determination, she now faces a whole new set of problems she never bargained for-how to protect herself from herself.The beauty coin seems to have three sides. It seems beauty comes in a package: one side is what you get when you quit with your unhealthy habits, lose seventy pounds, and peel off the mask that hides a girl of the Northeast Tribes; the second part is love and sex, which comes drifting in and tries to swallow you up; and the third part is your dreams and how you and your brand-new beautiful self are a threat to them.
Emergency Plan -Or- Doomsday List
Fifteen. Seventy pounds overweight. No plan. No boyfriend. No future. I was the girl who settled for a Tom Selleck poster and a dream choked with a hand to mouth life working two jobs like my mom did-until my grocery cart crashed into a woman in a red cape. Not a costume. Not a kid. A grown-up Little Red Riding Hood, eyes sharp as steel and a jaw clenched against a world full of too many cakes and cookies and not enough hard-cutting honesty.What came next wasn't a fairy tale-it was a demolition. Every illusion I clung to-about love, beauty, success, and wealth...and the lie that "someday" fixes everything-got torched. I faced my bulging mirror and saw the mountain I had to climb. I had a choice to make: did I want it? Did I really want it?DO YOU REALLY WANT THIS, DANI?You think it's a simple question and a simple answer, but it's the hardest thing you'll ever have to decide-a great hurt wrapped in the truth that no one is coming to save you.This isn't your safe-space story. It's a wake-up call. And I'm warning you. My journey out of illusions and into honesty will probably piss you off and break your heart. It might even force you to face a few ugly truths about love, loss and a few facts of life about seeking your dreams if you still have any. Let me tell you, life's no equal-opportunity winner's circle. After a few years of bad training or no training at all, life doesn't hand out equal shots-it hands out consequences. Bad habits. Broken homes. Lazy dreams. They stack up fast and most people just keep adding weight to the pile.But you don't have to be like them. The question is the same for you as it was for me: are you tough enough to take advice? Can you put aside your illusions long enough to listen? I stopped. I listened. I fought. I changed.Truth doesn't chase anyone. You have to go after her, catch up and walk with her and talk with her and stop being afraid of her.This is the first of four books full of dreams and doubts, love and learning, facing a mountain and deciding to climb it.
Quips of Wisdom
This collection of unique and original writing, is a heartfelt compilation of thoughts, emotions, and insights crafted to inspire, entertain, and provoke contemplation. Within these pages, lives a rich tapestry of original poems, engaging stories, and thoughtful reflections--each piece a glimpse into the facets of the human experience.The original poems are an invitation to pause and reflect on the beauty and complexity of daily life as well as greater existential moments. The stories will transport you to another time and place and reveal the fun, spontaneity, and resilience of the human spirit. The reflective pieces offer a space to ponder and meditate on the lessons life brings.This book will companion your thoughts, spark to your creativity, and leave an indelible mark on your heart, mind, and soul.
Quips of Wisdom
This collection of unique and original writing, is a heartfelt compilation of thoughts, emotions, and insights crafted to inspire, entertain, and provoke contemplation. Within these pages, lives a rich tapestry of original poems, engaging stories, and thoughtful reflections--each piece a glimpse into the facets of the human experience.The original poems are an invitation to pause and reflect on the beauty and complexity of daily life as well as greater existential moments. The stories will transport you to another time and place and reveal the fun, spontaneity, and resilience of the human spirit. The reflective pieces offer a space to ponder and meditate on the lessons life brings.This book will companion your thoughts, spark to your creativity, and leave an indelible mark on your heart, mind, and soul.
Dunes Review 29.2
The Fall/Winter 2025 issue (29.2) of Dunes Review, northern Michigan's leading independent literary journal. Dunes Review is published by Michigan Writers, Inc., located in Traverse City, Michigan. Edited by Jennifer Yeatts and Teresa Scollon.
Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland, a spirited young woman with a penchant for Gothic novels, finds herself in the lively social whirl of Bath and later at the imposing Northanger Abbey. Amid balls, friendships, and mysterious allure, her vivid imagination threatens to obscure reality. As her journey unfolds, Catherine encounters humor, romance, and unexpected revelations about character and love. A sharp and playful commentary on society, this novel blends charm, wit, and suspense into an unforgettable story.
Persuasion
In this elegantly crafted novel, personal growth and romantic misunderstandings intertwine against the backdrop of England's class-conscious society. Our protagonist navigates the treacherous waters of love lost and found, revealing the subtleties of human emotions and social pressures. As past affections resurface amidst societal expectations, she faces the challenge of reconciling heartfelt desires with the rigid confines of her world, leading to a poignant exploration of hope, resilience, and reconciliation.
Runnin' from Guilt
On a fateful evening, Jolade Adeowo wakes up in a world she doesn't recognise. One where she's convinced her fianc矇 is still alive. Except he died three years ago. And the man at her bedside, calling her 'love, ' is a stranger.Three years after Diego's sudden death, Jolade has finally begun to heal, until an accident erases everything she's built, including the love she found again. Benjamin Brown, the man who helped her rediscover joy, is now someone she no longer remembers. Yet she can't shake the feeling that her heart knows him, even if her mind doesn't. Jolade is grieving a man she already lost while feeling inexplicably drawn to a stranger who swears he loves her. As Ben gently tries to reconnect with her, Jolade is torn between the past and an unfamiliar present. She must decide whether moving forward means betraying the love she lost or embracing the one she has forgotten.As for Ben, he finds himself in the most bizarre love triangle imaginable, except his competition is a ghost. And If he cannot help Jolade remember him, he will lose the only woman he has ever dared to love.RUNNIN' FROM GUILT is a standalone character-driven contemporary romance about memory, grief and the spaces in between. Blending amnesia, second chances, slow-burn romance, and a love that refuses to fade, this story explores what it truly means to love when everything else is forgotten.
Emergency Plan -Or- Doomsday List
Fifteen. Seventy pounds overweight. No plan. No boyfriend. No future. I was the girl who settled for a Tom Selleck poster and a dream choked with a hand to mouth life working two jobs like my mom did-until my grocery cart crashed into a woman in a red cape. Not a costume. Not a kid. A grown-up Little Red Riding Hood, eyes sharp as steel and a jaw clenched against a world full of too many cakes and cookies and not enough hard-cutting honesty.What came next wasn't a fairy tale-it was a demolition. Every illusion I clung to-about love, beauty, success, and wealth...and the lie that "someday" fixes everything-got torched. I faced my bulging mirror and saw the mountain I had to climb. I had a choice to make: did I want it? Did I really want it?DO YOU REALLY WANT THIS, DANI?You think it's a simple question and a simple answer, but it's the hardest thing you'll ever have to decide-a great hurt wrapped in the truth that no one is coming to save you.This isn't your safe-space story. It's a wake-up call. And I'm warning you. My journey out of illusions and into honesty will probably piss you off and break your heart. It might even force you to face a few ugly truths about love, loss and a few facts of life about seeking your dreams if you still have any. Let me tell you, life's no equal-opportunity winner's circle. After a few years of bad training or no training at all, life doesn't hand out equal shots-it hands out consequences. Bad habits. Broken homes. Lazy dreams. They stack up fast and most people just keep adding weight to the pile.But you don't have to be like them. The question is the same for you as it was for me: are you tough enough to take advice? Can you put aside your illusions long enough to listen? I stopped. I listened. I fought. I changed.Truth doesn't chase anyone. You have to go after her, catch up and walk with her and talk with her and stop being afraid of her.This is the first of four books full of dreams and doubts, love and learning, facing a mountain and deciding to climb it.
The Wreckhouse
What awaits you as you travel along a dark stretch of highway on the southwest coast of Newfoundland? Horror, strangeness and dark humour. This legendary road shares the same aura of uneasiness as the macabre tales in this collection. So, on a dark winter's night, are you prepared to travel through the Wreckhouse? Christopher Butt's new short story collection tackles east coast folklore, futuristic settings, and traditional vampire tales.
Suspicious Titles
The foundation of 'Suspicious Titles' is built with poems from my early period, ranging between 1975 and 1988 that are often directly written as welcome affirmations of the painful struggle that we may all find ourselves facing should we slip through the boundaries of their difficult truths. They are welcome via their attempts at understanding the various dilemmas at their core - the situations and emotional conditions that have us lost and wandering in an existential maze. As an initial proposition, I can say that much of 'Suspicious Titles', though somewhat semi- autobiographical, not only deals with the important details that form the various entanglements of lives, it tends to deal with them in terms of their place in the wider picture and sometimes in abstract and creative ways and from different viewpoints. This is especially true now we are viewing these poems at a distance in time, and although there are two books written earlier than this, 'Suspicious Titles' could certainly be considerd as the first to carry the style of my later work into its own future.
Warriors & Wild Daisies
A keepsake of beauty, courage, and nature's quiet wisdom. Honouring the sisterhood, mothers, healers, wild women, for every time you've fallen, then flowered anyway. Warriors & Wild Daisies is about finding beauty, empowerment, and silver linings through the ups and downs of life. A book to hold close, for feminine encouragement and love. This vibrant collection of 125 quotes, poems, and yarns, celebrates the grace and grit of the feminine spirit - with a sprinkle of silliness and life's forgotten little treasures. Lovingly hand-drawn illustrations of medicinal wildflowers, bloom among ancient healing remedies and mother nature's peaceful allure.Explorations of topics are both fierce and tender, they including; feminine strength, resilience, friendship, children, love, relationships, heartbreak, grief, healing, justice, starting over, rediscovering joy, health and women uniting. A call to embrace yourself fully with love and caring. These pages whisper encouragement. A beautiful gift book of inspiration and empowerment, give it to a woman you cherish, friends or a gift of self-love for you. Containing over 60 illustrations and 125 written inspirations. When life feels heavy, keep it on your bedside table.
Harlem Shadows The Poems of Claude McKay
Harlem Shadows is the groundbreaking poetry collection by Claude McKay, one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in 1922, this work captures the rhythms, sorrows, and spirit of early 20th-century Black life in America. Through vivid imagery and masterful verse, McKay explores themes of racial identity, injustice, love, and resilience. His poems - from the iconic "The Lynching" to "If We Must Die" - speak with unflinching honesty and lyrical beauty, marking a defining moment in African American literary history. Harlem Shadows remains a cornerstone of Black literature, a voice of courage and artistry that continues to inspire generations of readers and poets around the world.
Color
Color by Countee Cullen is a landmark collection of poetry that established its author as one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in 1925, this powerful debut volume explores themes of race, identity, love, and faith with classical elegance and emotional depth.Cullen's work reflects his mastery of traditional poetic forms-sonnets, lyrics, and ballads-while infusing them with a distinctly African American consciousness. His verses grapple with the pain of racial injustice and the search for beauty and meaning in a divided world. Poems such as "Incident," "Heritage," and "Yet Do I Marvel" are among the most celebrated in American literature, blending lyric grace with moral and spiritual intensity.Color remains a cornerstone of 20th-century poetry, a moving testament to the Black artistic spirit, and a vital contribution to the enduring dialogue on race and humanity in America.
A New Year In The Presidential Suite
A New Year...A New Chance at LifeAs a Christmas surprise, Lori Hamlin's family sends her to The Beach House Hotel on the Gulf Coast of Florida to help her recover from the loss of her husband two years ago, hoping she will realize it's time to change her life. There, she meets Griffin Sawyer, who's on his own after his fianc矇e left him at the altar. Neither one is interested in anything but friendship, but Lori and Griff decide to spend the New Year's holiday together.Griff has to leave unexpectedly because his grandfather, the owner of the Adeline Hills Winery, has had a stroke. Having been told about wine and growing grapes by Griff, Lori decides to learn more. And when she signs up for a stay at the winery's guest cottage, she meets Griff and his entire family. Then, they must decide if friendship is what they truly want or if the past will prevent them from moving forward.A special spin-off book where characters have their own stories but end up at The Beach House Hotel in Florida with Ann and Rhonda. A chance to stay connected to the series in a different way.
Letters To Dead Authors
Letters to dead authors begins as a creative exchange between a living observer of literature and the memories of writers whose words continue to shape imagination. Rather than presenting a typical critique, the work takes the form of reflective letters that explore ideas about creativity, admiration, and the lasting influence of written expression. Each letter becomes an intimate conversation with the past, examining how stories and language can outlast their creators. The narrator reflects on the power of books to impact readers across time, considering how authors might respond to admiration, criticism, or the shifting values of society. Humor and sincerity blend as the letters consider fame, legacy, and the mysterious connection between writer and audience. Instead of focusing on specific events or personal anecdotes, the text highlights the emotional weight of literature and the fascination with understanding minds that can no longer speak. The collection invites readers to think about why certain works endure and how the act of writing can create a dialogue between generations. Through this reflective approach, the book becomes a tribute to imagination and a meditation on the enduring life of ideas.
Story Time With YaYa
The art of storytelling reveals subtle or blatant truths that can be used as teaching tools for minds young and old.This is a unique collection of stories and poems intended for reading aloud, engaging both the reader and listener in creative imagination. Each story embeds a lesson that will hopefully plant a seed for future cultivation. These are simple enough stories for children often with a surprise ending yet poetic and dramatic enough for a storytelling voice.
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Caste. [A novel.] By the author of "Mr. Arle" [i.e. Emily Jolly].
Title: Caste. [A novel.] By the author of "Mr. Arle" [i.e. Emily Jolly].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; 1857. 3 vol.; 8簞. 12634.e.3.
Whispers
Whispers is a soothing collection of short stories, poems, and gentle reflections written for adults who seek comfort and calm at the end of the day. Each piece offers a soft moment of escape-little nighttime thoughts, emotions, and observations meant to quiet the mind and warm the heart. Perfect for reading before sleep, Whispers invites readers into a peaceful world of imagination, tenderness, and quiet beauty.
Well Said Well Read
Since its launch in 2014, Writers Read has invited hundreds of writers onto the stage to present their work to live audiences in and around New York City. A maximum of 650 words, those stories on a broad variety of topics took just five minutes to perform, though their impact has lasted far longer. This collection assembles some of the most powerful personal true stories presented to appreciative audiences during our first decade. From moments of joy to experiences of hardship, each two-page story offers a unique and heartfelt glimpse into our shared human experience.
Blue Requiem
In the award-winning title poem, Blue Requiem, the author explores the roots of the blues as a living testament to the perseverance of the human spirit as a means of survival.A beautiful collection of poems that depict love, loss, birth and death. These poems reflect the vulnerable aspects of a woman coming to terms with a life in transition and celebrates the ability to heal. Baker explores the power of connection with the natural world as teacher and guide on a journey of self-awareness.
The Book of Women's Friendship
As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, Housekeeping, "Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house." Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, The Book of Women's Friendship explores the rich subject of friendship between women from every angle: its particular intensity and miraculous ease, its tendency to wax and wane, its role not only as a comfort and a privilege, but as vital to our health.Friendship has never been more highly debated, and loneliness more prevalent. Yet women's friendships have repeatedly been neglected or minimized in storytelling, fallen by the wayside of male relationships. In the first major anthology dedicated to women's friendship--and the first serious anthology about friendship published in more than three decades--editor Rachel Cooke looks to art to find the words to capture women's platonic love. Compiling selections from novels, poems, diaries, letters, comics, and graphic novels about women's friendship, she places work from a diverse array of artists in conversation across time and place.With excerpts from Jane Austen to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, from Dolly Alderton to Sarah Waters, and from Zadie Smith to Meg Wolitzer, The Book of Women's Friendship celebrates and investigates friendship between women, from first encounters to final farewells, from falling out to making up again. This book takes the shape of a human life, beginning with early efforts at friend-making and -breaking in childhood to chance collisions in adulthood. It contemplates (though not for too long) the flip side of friendship, which is not enmity, but loneliness; celebrates solidarity in all its guises; and ends with loss, the moment of goodbye.Warm, clever, and full of some of the most beautiful writing on friendship ever published, The Book of Women's Friendship is also an act of friendship itself, dedicated to Cooke's best friend, in the end becoming a book full of all the lovely, impossible, unsayable things that one friend might be moved to give to another.
Reluctant Medium
Have you ever wondered what happens to your consciousness after your body dies? Probably most people wonder about that at some time. Most religions try to answer that question with various heavenly scenarios or hellish punishments and wars have been fought and people painfully put to death because of disagreements about religious beliefs and dogmas. Pearl Curran believed that she had made contact with the consciousness of a young woman, "Patience Worth" who had lived and died in the 17th century. Together, Pearl Curran and Patience Worth produced hundreds of poems and several novels and plays that were regarded to be high-quality writing, acknowledged by Stanley Braithwaite in his Anthology of Magazine Poetry as some of the best poetry of 1917-1918. While this book may seem to be about communication with spirits, which it is in the overview, it really is about exceptional literature produced by a young woman with barely a grade school education, no interest in writing and whose formative years were spent in Missouri, Texas and Illinois. But she wrote about Medieval England, Victorian England and the time of Jesus Christ, topics she knew little or nothing about and sprinkled some of the writing with archaic words from rural England of more than 300 years ago. As a young girl, Pearl Curran trained to be a singer and pianist and as a grown woman she enjoyed singing, playing piano, seeing silent movies, reading magazines and cooking for her family. She had no interest in language, history, or religion yet the writings of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth are a language and history cornucopia of information about times fast fading from memory. This book is an effort to bring the writing of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth before the public once again so that it will not be forgotten.
Reluctant Medium
Have you ever wondered what happens to your consciousness after your body dies? Probably most people wonder about that at some time. Most religions try to answer that question with various heavenly scenarios or hellish punishments and wars have been fought and people painfully put to death because of disagreements about religious beliefs and dogmas. Pearl Curran believed that she had made contact with the consciousness of a young woman, "Patience Worth" who had lived and died in the 17th century. Together, Pearl Curran and Patience Worth produced hundreds of poems and several novels and plays that were regarded to be high-quality writing, acknowledged by Stanley Braithwaite in his Anthology of Magazine Poetry as some of the best poetry of 1917-1918. While this book may seem to be about communication with spirits, which it is in the overview, it really is about exceptional literature produced by a young woman with barely a grade school education, no interest in writing and whose formative years were spent in Missouri, Texas and Illinois. But she wrote about Medieval England, Victorian England and the time of Jesus Christ, topics she knew little or nothing about and sprinkled some of the writing with archaic words from rural England of more than 300 years ago. As a young girl, Pearl Curran trained to be a singer and pianist and as a grown woman she enjoyed singing, playing piano, seeing silent movies, reading magazines and cooking for her family. She had no interest in language, history, or religion yet the writings of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth are a language and history cornucopia of information about times fast fading from memory. This book is an effort to bring the writing of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth before the public once again so that it will not be forgotten.
Clear My Name-Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine
Clear My Name-Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine is a poetry collection of 57 pieces, some written in prose form, others more experimental in style.In Clear My Name-Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine, C. J. Anderson-Wu offers a stirring poetic testament to the resilience of identity amid the tremors of history. With a voice both lyrical and unflinching, she traverses the landscapes of three regions-each marked by conflict, memory, and the pursuit of self-definition. Her verses do not merely recount events; they illuminate the shadows cast by silence, giving form to stories often left untold.This collection moves deftly between the intimate and the communal, revealing how the act of naming-of claiming one's truth-is itself a form of resistance. Anderson-Wu's poetry becomes a vessel for remembrance, a shield against erasure, and a call to recognize the dignity embedded in every struggle for voice and place.To read these poems is to enter a space where borders blur and belonging deepens, where the personal becomes political, and where the reclamation of one's name becomes a reclamation of one's humanity.
Sceptical Always
A collection of yarns, politically incorrect opinions and experiences by a larrikin anti-establishment professor of geology. He has lived life and seen too much of totalitarianism and fundamentalism, be it in politics, religion or science, and seeks evidence and not propaganda. As a scientist, his training has made him sceptical and critical of everything and he is intolerant of intolerance. His university life has been intertwined with a corporate and bush life. Any child who becomes apoplectic about the internet dropping out for an hour needs a reality check and should read about their contemporaries in other countries.PROFESSOR IAN PLIMER is Australia's best-known geologist and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where he was Professor and Head of Earth Sciences (1991-2005). He is currently a director of various Hancock Prospecting companies. He previously served as Professor and Head of Geology at the University of Newcastle (1985-1991), Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide (2006-2012), and Research Professor of Ore Deposits at Ludwig Maximilians Universit瓣t, Munich (1991). He also held positions at the University of New England, the University of New South Wales, and Macquarie University. Plimer has published over 140 scientific papers and co-edited the five-volume Encyclopedia of Geology.
Us, Now
Listen for the hum beneath the everyday. In nearly fifty stories-from realist corners to speculative edges-Us, Now collects tales that begin with a quiet, persistent feeling: an overlooked truth, a thread between strangers, a small wonder that becomes everything. These pieces reflect the moments that define us now-epiphanies, curiosities, and the extraordinary tucked into the commonplace. Follow the hum, because what you ignore today might change you tomorrow.
Up South in the Ozarks
The Ozarks is a place that defies easy categorization. Sprawling across much of Missouri and Arkansas and smaller parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, it is caught on the margins of America's larger cultural regions: part southern, part midwestern, and maybe even a little bit western. For generations Ozarkers have been more likely than most other Americans to live near or below the poverty line-a situation that has often subjected them to unflattering stereotypes. In short, the Ozarks has been a marginal place populated by marginalized people. Historian Brooks Blevins has spent his life studying and writing about the people of his native regions-the South and the Ozarks. He has been in the vanguard of a new and vibrant Ozarks Studies movement that has worked to refract the stories of Ozarkers through a more realistic and less exotic lens. In Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins, Blevins introduces us with humor and fairness to mostly unseen lives of the past and present: southern gospel singing schools and ballad collectors, migratory cotton pickers and backroad country storekeepers, fireworks peddlers and impoverished diarists. Part historical and part journalistic, Blevins's essays combine the scholarly sensibilities of a respected historian with the insights of someone raised in rural hill country. His stories of marginalized characters often defy stereotype. They entertain as much as they educate. And most of them originate in the same place Blevins does: up south in the Ozarks.
Chronicles of A Wild Drum
A kingdom haunted by curses. A king tormented by lost love. A dark legacy that refuses to die.In the myth-soaked kingdom of Ev籀vuotu, tyranny reigns under King Okpararebisi, a man once known as Uz簷-a dreamer, a lover, and now a ruler broken by his own ambition. Consumed by power and obsessed with the one woman he lost, Chinasa, his rule festers in cruelty, and the land groans under the weight of ancient sins.But this story didn't begin with him.Generations before, his ancestor Egbe made a fateful bargain with Ohia Igodo, an ancient and vengeful entity imprisoned between worlds. In his desperate bid to win the heart of the enigmatic ?ffi繫簽g, Egbe unleashed chaos-not just for himself, but for every soul born after. Twisting love into a game of pain, Ohia Igodo wove a curse so deep it would poison the bloodline for centuries.Now, in the shadow of a forgotten war between gods and mortals, fate tightens its grip.As conspiracies rise against Okpararebisi, and whispers of rebellion gather force, divine justice awakens. A curse cast by the god Akanchi stalks the land, echoing through the bones of the dead: "Blood is life, and life is blood. A curse on him who made you a victim of his tyranny."As the past and present spiral toward collision, ancient powers stir, love and vengeance blur, and a final reckoning looms.Will Okpararebisi redeem the man he once was-or will the curse of his bloodline consume the kingdom forever?
Celebrating Women
A captivating collection of women's writing--including everything from poetry, letters, novels, memoir, and journals--that celebrates the joy of being a woman. While centuries of men, and the first generations of feminists have (from very different perspectives) lamented the experience of womanhood, this new collection takes a refreshing look at all there is to enjoy. Chapters include "Firsts" with voices such as Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and Marie Curie, the first female Nobel prizewinner; "Festivities," which emphasizes frivolity and pleasure; "Friends" exploring the depth of connection experienced through female friendship; "Family," on mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers; and "Flowering," which celebrates women's creativity, passion, and love of life. From Amy Tan representing the uplifting comfort of parties with friends in The Joy Luck Club, to Sylvia Plath considering the fierce and confusing love she feels for her mother, and Elizabeth I embracing her role as Britain's first successful woman ruler, Celebrating Women includes a diverse range of voices from across the ages that explores the breadth and gratification experience in different women's lives. This volume contains a huge selection of writers dating back to the fifteenth century, from Christine de Pizan to Emily Dickinson, Germaine Greer to Alice Walker.
White
When Sylvain Tesson left the colourful yellow houses of the French Riviera for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly awaited him. The trek would turn into an extraordinary adventure. Over the course of four years they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, immersing themselves in a strange white world made entirely of snow. In the bitter cold and overlooked by an empty sky, only the effort of moving forward, one difficult stride at a time, separated the days from one another. And as they trudged onwards, the never-ending white of the high Alps cancelled out all feelings - hope, fear, memory and regret. What did he stand to gain by inflicting this ordeal on himself? This was no ordinary mountain trek: it was a search for communion with the magic substance of the White.Over the course of four years they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, immersing themselves in a strange white world made entirely of snow. In the bitter cold and overlooked by an empty sky, only the effort of moving forward, one difficult stride at a time, separated the days from one another. And as they trudged onwards, the never-ending white of the high Alps cancelled out all feelings - hope, fear, memory and regret. What did he stand to gain by inflicting this ordeal on himself? This was no ordinary mountain trek: it was a search for communion with the magic substance of the White.
We Are Nature Defending Itself
In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is "a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature a voice in our literature and our lives." Not least of the many benefits to readers are its contributions from prominent Latina writers, presented here as advocates for the environment. Though this theme has long existed in Chicana literature, it has never been positioned as front and center as it is in this anthology. Volume editor Cordelia E. Barrera also includes notable Anglo, African American, and Indigenous contributors, crafting a true cultural blend of distinctive writing that will appeal to older generations while inspiring new ones. By incorporating these border voices, this collection effectively challenges long-dominant mythologies of the American West and offers a prominent place for literatures of social justice and the environment. The mix of poems, stories, and essays are divided into three sections: Bodies, Landscape, and Practices. Part I begins with the idea of experiencing and feeling a history of the body's contact with landscapes and places as repositories of knowledge. Part II extends beyond particulars of private or public life to consider issues of place as sites and locations of radical action. Part III features ruminations and traditions of remembering, highlighting reciprocal relationships to the natural world that extend outward to the ways "women's work" in and around the home shapes communal processes that reinforce continuity across time and space. We Are Nature Defending Itself adds important new work to the growing canon of nature and borderlands writing by women of color. In turn, these new voices deepen and broaden our understanding of humanity and its relationship to the natural environment.
A Domain of Her Own
A Domain of Her Own, An Anthology of Art, Poetry, and Prose by Members of the NLAPW Central New York Branch in Our 100th Year, is an eclectic collection of the finest work of professional women writers and visual artists who are members of the Central New York (CNY) Branch of the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW). Written and compiled as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the CNY Branch, this anthology is designed to provoke thought on a variety of topics and evoke emotional responses to the poetry, prose, and various visual art forms created by a diverse group of American women to express their unique voices. Woman empowering in design and content, the works in the anthology also reflect how women cope with loss, aging, and change. Much of the art, as well as the poetry, is centered around the natural world and how we react to and observe ourselves in nature. The collection and the creative women whose work is in this anthology never shy away from controversy if it causes readers to question, think, and want to make our world a better place.
Women of a Certain Courage
Women of a Certain Courage is an uplifting read that follows the long tradition of women supporting and guiding other women. These 18 stories of courage will have you weeping, laughing and celebrating moments of bravery. With tales of activism, of finding a voice, escaping domestic violence, battling and much more, Women of a Certain Courage will inspire awe with the myriad ways women prevail and demonstrate courage.
The Weight of Tender Things
​"You have changed at least one life- mine- with your thoughts conceptualized into this phenomenally articulated book. This is a once-in-a-lifetime read... Poetry exposing the brutal core of humanity that the world desperately needs."- Elyse Haslam on Goodreads--------For readers of Sylvia Plath and lovers of raw and defiant inner truths, Sadia Hakim offers a visual poetry book that feels like a soul remembering itself - wounded, watchful, and unapologetically human.This debut collection blends confessional and journal-style reflections with psychological depth, exploring themes of rage, trauma, tender things that make life worth living, and the sacred discomfort of self-confrontation. The Weight of Tender Things is for those who feel everything, who read between the lines, who sense the unspoken, and who have learned to stand firm in a world that often demands their softness without offering safety. It is not just visual poetry. It is a confession. A mirror to the parts of you that have been silenced, mishandled, or seen as too much.​​​​​​​This is a fully colored special edition paperback thoughtfully designed as both a visual and emotional experience.
Chewing the Page
This is the first collection of creative writing-related interviews originally posted on Mourning Goats, a website founded by the mysterious Mr Goat. Over a year of mostly anonymous work, the Goat managed to interview some of the most exciting English-language authors around. Edited by Phil Jourdan and the Goat himself, and featuring expanded interviews not available online, Chewing the Page offers a series of weird and hilarious glimpses at the world of writing. Includes interviews with Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevenger, Paul Tremblay, Donald Ray Pollock, Stephen Elliott, Chad Kultgen, Chelsea Cain, Rick Moody, Christopher Moore and Nick Hornby, and others.,
Introduction to the Mabinogi
A little book to introduce the Mabinogi, which revolutionised the telling of stories a thousand years ago. All our prose fiction, novels, films, gaming, is descended from this work of genius.Here are the tales themselves in a closely accurate retelling, plus all the main ideas scholars have developed about them.Often known as 'mythology', or 'Celtic mythology', the Mabinogi has been recognised since the 1970s as a sophisticated literature. It deserves to stand with Shakespeare and Homer yet is not nearly as well known as it should be.With all that the tales are wonderful stories of love, adventure, war, tragedy and enchantments. Mature scholars and young children alike can thoroughly enjoy them.The book has a wealth of illustrations, list of characters, and help with translations and further reading. It is written in clear, freindly style and will be well within the reach of teenagers upwards. Yet it also covers many sophusticated theories.
Every Day is a GOOD Day
Anarchist, Zen Buddhist, Playboy editor and novelist Robert Shea is best known for the Illuminatus! Trilogy, a cult classic co-authored with Robert Anton Wilson that has never gone out of print. He also had a successful career writing action-filled but philosophical historical novels such as Shike and All Things Are Lights. Shea was still developing his career as a novelist and was just sixty-one when illness cut his writing career short, ruling out a planned sequel to Illuminatus! and also preventing the publication of other novels that were in the works. An outwardly conventional middle class man who was kind to his fans, Shea was also a radical who published anarchist fanzines, kept an authentic Samurai sword in his home, and interacted with Wobblies and counterculture oddballs. Now, three decades after his death, Every Day is a GOOD Day: Robert Shea on Illuminatus!, Writing and Anarchism collects many of his short pieces, giving readers a glimpse of the man behind Illuminatus! and Shike.- - - Entertaining, thought provoking and richly varied, Every Day is a GOOD Day is a perfect introduction to the anarchistic principles and humane thinking of Robert Shea - a man more interested in finding flaws in his own beliefs than he is in forcing those beliefs on others. - John Higgs, author of Love and Let Die and other booksEvery Day Is a GOOD Day is here to preserve the memory of this good-hearted, open-minded man - and to let more people enjoy his humane and freedom-loving writings. - Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia and Reason magazine books editorShea's intelligence and sense of humor, shine throughout this terrific book. Robert Shea truly seems "the very model of modern armchair anarchist." - Eric Wagner, author of An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson and Straight Outta DublinTom Jackson's delightful collection has rescued the wit, warmth, and anarchist mischief of Robert Shea - the other half of the Illuminatus! equation. This is a resurrection spell for a writer, and an enthusiast's treasure trove! - Daisy Eris Campbell, writer/director of Cosmic Trigger the Play
La Lucha
From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars, and activists, from 17 countries, actively engaged in the fight for women's rights in Latin America. From the patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, and indigenous cultures, their struggle embodies the contested definitions and priorities of feminism. Their solidarity, and tirelessness, has yielded striking, game-changing results in areas as disparate, and as fundamental to women's lives, as reproductive health, environmentalism, anti-colonialism, and human rights. With contributors that include Isabel Allende, Selva Almada, Gabriela Cabez籀n C獺mara, Valeria Luiselli, Lina Meruane, Claudia Pi簽eiro, and Cristina Rivera Garza, this unprecedented collection is sure to challenge, provoke, and inspire.
