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The Bacchae of Euripides
A New Translation with a Critical Essay
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This new translation of *The Bacchae—*that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse—is an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406 B.C. The achievement of this aim involves a restoration of the "great lacuna"...
Sublime Physick
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A follow-up to Patrick Madden’s award-winning debut, this introspective and exuberant collection of essays is wide-ranging and wild, following bifurcating paths of thought to surprising connections. In Sublime Physick, Madden seeks what is common and ennobling among seemingly disparate, even divisive,...
by Mahtem Shiferraw
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw’s Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disassembled, and nomadic self. Embedded in her poems are colors, elements, and sensations that evoke painful memories related to deep-seated remnants...
Darkened Rooms of Summer
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
For nearly half a century Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the silence of the ever-changing and yet ever-constant Midwest that figures so prominently in the American...
Celluloid Indians
Native Americans and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Native American characters have been the most malleable of metaphors for filmmakers. The likeable Doc of Stagecoach (1939) had audiences on the edge of their seats with dire warnings about “that old butcher, Geronimo.” Old Lodgeskins of Little Big Man (1970) had viewers crying out against the...
Pastime Lost
The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Long before baseball became America’s national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It had the same basic elements as modern American baseball, such as pitching and striking the ball, running bases, and fielding, but was played...
Queer Embodiment
Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means, and has meant, to have a legible body in the West. Hilary Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how contesting...
The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899
Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha’s key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on...
Arnie, Seve, and a Fleck of Golf History
Heroes, Underdogs, Courses, and Championships
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In a long, award-winning career writing about golf, Bill Fields has sought out the most interesting stories—not just those featuring big winners and losers, but the ones that get at the very character of the game. Collected here, his pieces offer an intriguing portrait of golf over the past century....
by David Lavender
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men like Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger...
In Pursuit of Pennants
Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The 1936 Yankees, the 1963 Dodgers, the 1975 Reds, the 2010 Giants—why do some baseball teams win while others don’t?
General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative...
Mover and Shaker
Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O’Malley (1903–79) is best remembered—and still reviled by many—for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the O’Malley story leading up to the Dodgers’ move is unknown...
One Nation Under Baseball
How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America’s pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport—fairness, competition, and mythology—came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game:...
The Presidents and the Pastime
The History of Baseball and the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith’s extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the “most American” sport, and the U.S. presidency.
Smith, who USA TODAY calls “America’s voice of...