Josephine Johnson: 7 books

This collection of twenty-two short stories was first published in 1936, a year after Josephine Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for her debut novel Now in November. Some of these stories were published previously in magazines – The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The St. Louis Review, Hound and Horn,...

The passionate man who loves with strength and lives with violence... The silent, lonely boy who exists in a world of strange loves and longings... The evil, terrifying creature of the night, which destroys as it clings, which consumes as it touches... Through a nightmare world of fear and forbidden...

Novembre. À présent je revois d'un seul coup nos vies durant les années passées. Cet automne est à la fois une fin et un commencement, et les jours naguère brouillés par ce qui était trop proche et trop familier sont clairs, étrangers à mes yeux. Novembre. À présent, je revois d'un seul...

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties.Like Ethan Frome, the relatively brief, intense story evokes the torment possible...

Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or "left" tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of "animal rights," the authors...

Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings...