Conjunctions: 16 books

Cover of American Poetry

American Poetry

States of the Art

by Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

“Conjunctions offers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work.” —The Washington Post With work from the seventy-five poets who are the game-changing, bar-setting voices of our time first published in this volume, Conjunctions: 35, American Poetry is...
Cover of The New Wave Fabulists
by Bradford Morrow, Peter Straub
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres—from Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Miéville, and many more. Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming...
Cover of Other Aliens
by Elizabeth Hand, Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

New writings on our fear of—and fascination with—the “other” from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more. Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are “other.” Aliens are the stuff of science fiction and fantasy. Aliens are traditional literary...
Cover of Tributes

Tributes

American Writers on American Writers

by Bradford Morrow, Martine Bellen, Lee Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

Rick Moody on John Cheever; Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss; Mona Simpson on Henry James: Forty-five essays by great writers, about great writers. For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary masters who made something possible for them—whether...
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Inside Out

Architectures of Experience

by Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017

New writings—on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us—from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more.   From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and pass through shape our memories and perceptions, often...
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Sleights of Hand

The Deception Issue

by Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016

Essays, fiction, and poetry reflecting on truth and illusion in a world filled with deceptions both treacherous and benign.   Children deceive, as do grownups, and many are the moments when all of us even deceive ourselves. People of every age and stripe, whether rarely or often, dissimulate, bluff,...
Cover of Fifty Contemporary Writers
by Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

From a PEN Award winner for Literary Editing: “Arguably the most distinguished journal of prose and poetry in America.” —Elle   Conjunctions’ milestone fiftieth issue gathers together the many voices, forms, and styles that have defined the legendary literary journal since it was launched...
Cover of A Menagerie
by Bradford Morrow, Benjamin Hale
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

Russell Banks, Temple Grandin, and other renowned writers contemplate animals—and the way our own species interacts with them.   Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie gathers essays, fiction, and poetry that imagine the world of our fellow beings, animals. Cultural mythologies and pantheons are populated...
Cover of Exile
by Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

New writings on defectors and deportees, migrants and refugees, and the feeling of being far from home.   From the moment homes and homelands came into being, exile ensued. While narratives of exile share themes of banishment, loss and longing, they are as diverse as the human experience itself....
Cover of Affinity

Affinity

The Friendship Issue

by Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016

New writings on the topic of friendship from Stephen O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Clark, Elizabeth Gaffney, Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke, and more. Aristotle proposed that a friend is, in essence, “another self,” and it is indisputable that our relationships with our friends are...
Cover of Being Bodies
by Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

The human body is admired, displayed, and dissected in this eclectic collection of stories, poems, and essays from Rick Moody, Edward Carey, and more.   Being Bodies is an exploration of the complex circumstances of our flesh-and-blood existence. Our bodies dance; they’re inked; they contain prosthetics...
Cover of Radical Shadows

Radical Shadows

Previously Untranslated and Unpublished Works by Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Masters

by Bradford Morrow, Peter Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

Little-known literary works by Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and more: “[An] extraordinary collection of inexplicably forgotten treasures.” —New York magazine   Radical Shadows collects lost, forgotten, suppressed, rare, or unknown works by major literary writers from the late nineteenth...
Cover of Natural Causes

Natural Causes

The Nature Issue

by Bradford Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

New takes on nature by award-winning poets and writers, from Russell Banks to Lily Tuck and many more.   In Natural Causes, a provocative collection of radical reinventions of the genre of nature writing, we encounter shrimp farms and spoonbills, maize husks and Austrian woods, tarantulas and eels,...
Cover of Sanctuary

Sanctuary

The Preservation Issue

by Diane Ackerman, Martine Bellen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018

Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.   Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom...
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