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Something about Living

'It's nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agi...

Book of Endings

Transformation in American National Politics

The presidential election of 2012 was among the most important in American history, both for the ...

Political Communication & Strategy

Some aspects of the 2014 midterm elections would have been unimaginable a decade earlier. SuperPA...

Weather Inventions

"e;First marvel; then record."e; This tempered revision of Wordsworth's famous definition...

True Tales from the Campaign Trail

True Tales from the Campaign Trail finds Democratic and Republican political consultants putting ...

Indomitable Don Plusquellic

Until his resignation in May 2015, Don Plusquellic had been the mayor of Akron, Ohio, for twenty-...

Poet Drives a Truck

Lowell A. Levant had the twin vocations of poet and truck driver. He rose to prominence in Berkel...

Book of Endings

Short-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for PoetryThe poems in The Book of Endings try to m...

Further Problems with Pleasure

"e;If Coleridge, Plath, Ovid, and Celan started a love commune where they built a manifesto M...

Bankruptcy in an Industrial Society

Not a history of bankruptcy law, Murnane's work is a social and institutional history of the Bank...

Pictures at an Exhibition

Wrestling with the questions of travel, memory, and perception, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Pete...