Tara Wright: 4 books

In this spare and beautifully imagined short story, set on a night train in winter, a woman struggles to come to terms with the loss of a child. A romantic encounter with a stranger in a dining car allows her to glimpse, momentarily, a different kind of life. The story's startling conclusion will leave a lasting impression.

“No country in history has ever handed over so many inmates to private corporations. This book looks at the consequences” (Eric Schlosser, bestselling author of Fast Food Nation**).** In Prison Profiteers, coeditors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright “follow the money to an astonishing constellation...

In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...

While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with historical, literary, and philosophical topics,...