Covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.

In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen 'spangling with light'. Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants.

Presents the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into Geoffrey Weill's entertaining anecdotes is an informative account of a lost era in travel.

Drawing from diaries, journals, school textbooks, and printed propaganda, J.W. Mohnhaupt tells the stories of animals during the Third Reich, focusing each chapter on a different facet of Nazism by way of a specific animal species: red deer, horses, cats, and more.

The trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late fifth century BCE, finding an eager market in Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the artistry and worldview of the Greeks who made them, but Sheramy Bundrick shifts attention to their Etruscan customers, trade networks, and archaeological contexts.

In the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto Gonzalez looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adolescent yearnings, and adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body - all are explored by Gonzalez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.

A comic classic of world literature, Aleko Konstantinov's 1895 novel follows the misadventures of rose-oil salesman Ganyo as he travels in Europe. Translated into English for the first time, it is accompanied by an introduction, glossary, and notes.