Literature

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  Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

  Adrienne Rich, Eula Biss

  Paperback

  The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.

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  The Golden Ass

  Apuleius, Peter Singer, Ellen Finkelpearl, Anna and Varvara Kendel

  Hardcover

  Peter Singer has breathed new life into Apuleius’s The Golden Ass—a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novels—accentuating its remarkable empathy for animals.

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  Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays

  Jesse McCarthy

  Hardcover

  A supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.

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  Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

  Aristophanes, Aaron Poochigian

  Hardcover

  A “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.

• The German Lesson

  Siegfried Lenz

  Paperback

  In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine...