Teaches the student to communicate in everyday situations, with each chapter introducing a new situational context. Students learn to discuss work, vacations, health, and entertainment. Students also learn to practice basic skills such as shopping, ordering tickets, and renting an apartment.

Complicating the idea of a single immigrant narrative, the stories in Diversity Quota move from the US to Nepal and back again, showing how displacement can lead to suffering or hope—sometimes simultaneously. Ranjan Adiga navigates larger problems of racism, inequity and gender roles while centering his characters’ humanity, flaws and all.

The tension between populism and pluralism, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, has marked the United States since its inception. In The Divided States, leading scholars and critics argue that the US is, and has always been, a site where multiple national identities intersect in productive and challenging ways.

In this epic tale, Fatma Aydemir explores the lives of characters who could not be more different from one another—except in their insatiable desires to be understood. Rather than a seamless narrative, the novel circles around suppressed memories, unspoken trauma, and buried pasts.

Here, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in the war that forever changed the face of Europe. He provides a clear narrative of the diplomatic background to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.

‘Is that something I should put in a poem?’ asks Nick Lantz in The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That. Mixing sincerity with irony, lyric with vernacular, Lantz’s collisions of style and subject are at their most vibrant in the long sequence at the centre of the collection.

Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens’ political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows, eking out a living from day to day leaves little time for civic engagement.