Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of scholars addressing some of the most essential Irish detective writing, Guilt Rules All confirms that this genre has arrived. The essays collected here connect their immediate subjects—contemporary Irish crime writers—to Irish culture, literature, and history. Anchored in both canonical and emerging themes, this collection draws on es...

“This poem begins where Bulimia endsor maybe, just maybe, when it started. Wherethe differential diagnosis is confusedby decades of self-made violence. Poverty,colonialism, god, all prisms that will shatterone day, if not now…”Part self-interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird’s second collection detail the author’s ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, cond...

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall...

Winner, 2024 Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry in EnglishFinalist, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for PoetryFinalist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardFinalist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster AwardLonglist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Pat Lowther Memorial AwardCBC Best Poetry of 2024I am made of centuries & carbohydratesthe development of my molars

These poems invite us as our experiences do into themselves in three ways simultaneously: as overwhelming, disappointing and transforming. Each is entirely new and unexpected, as well as unlike and distinct from any object of the desire of their initial reception. And finally, though still simultaneously, each is the unity of these and all distinctions of them and us, subject and object, time and timelessness.

Our feathered friends up in the skySee everything from their bird's eyeFrom climate change to deadly litterThis all effects the flying critterPolluted water and toxic wastePlastic seas and forests erasedShrinking wildlands and habitatBirds Dislike This and Dislike ThatFrom Brandie Grasso, author of The Royal Pelican Trilogy, comes her latest children's book, Birds...

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall...

Where the Birds Fly Through is a book about death and life. It is a love story between a father and son. Lawson is devastated by the death of his son. Through the seasons and years that follow this tragedy, he learns to reconcile this great absence and his sadness and regret with the warm, joyful experiences he remembers with his son. In this healing, Lawson learns to enter then embrace life once again.