In 1944, a Jewish couple in Paris desperately await news of their missing family. More than seventy years later, the couple's great-grandchildren fi nd themselves facing the same question as their ancestors: Are we safe? Following five generations of a French Jewish family, Prayer for the French Republic is a sweeping look at history, home, and the effects of an ancient hatred.

Tells the story of Daphna Feygenbaum, a 'Real Jew' with an Israeli boyfriend. When Daphna's cousin Liam brings home his shiksa girlfriend Melody and declares ownership of their grandfather's Chai necklace, a vicious and hilarious brawl over family, faith and legacy ensues--Page 4 of cover.

Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband the school's headmaster they've largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university personal ambition collides with progressive values with convulsive results. A no-holds-barred look at privilege power and the perils of hypocrisy.

Reeling from her ex-husband's engagement to a much younger woman Jodi Isaac turns to her famous fashion-designer dad for support. Instead she finds him wrapped up in his West Village townhouse with Trey. Who's twenty. And not necessarily gay. But probably an adult film star. At least according to Jodi's son. Who's also twenty. And definitely gay.

Skintight assays the nature of love the power of attraction and the ways in which a superficial culture persists in teaching its children that all that matters is what's on the inside.

Most of the time, Theodor Adorno has noted, records are virtual photographs of their owners. The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008 recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how music has informed the author's life.

An old fisherman recites his sea-sorrow; two sisters search for their runaway brother and the girl they believe he keeps tied to a tree. The landscape comes alive as these stories chart families broken apart and stitched back together over the course of harsh New England seasons.

Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and clouds' crumpled page to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

The Soft Path, which takes its title from a 1970s term promoting an alternative energy future, appraises the unreconciled / losses of a world remade in the relentless interests of capital, a world revelatory in its / diminishment. Written where landscape bleeds into soundscape, where ecopoetics collides with technopoetics, this book speaks from the fragmented space of machine learning to memory's residue, in a voice that recalls American predecessors Oppen, Niedecker, and Ammons. The Soft Path continues Harmon's exploration of both the serial poem and the long poem, from the small-but-systemic breakdowns of Cascading Failures to the epic commuting roadsong of the nearly 1500-line Horizontal Dropouts. These poems offer field notes on sites ranging from interstate off-ramps to hi-vis ribbons tied to / twig tips in the woods; they register tenuousness and tenacity, from an era when everything is] / post-peak. The Soft Path reasserts Lydia Davis's judgement that Harmon reaches deep into the resources of our rich English, renewing the language and creating from it a physical and emotional world completely his own.

Winner of the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie is a tender anti-epic, a grunge-tinged love song to America's benighted post-industrial heartland. Harmon's Poughkeepsie shimmers just beyond the borders of banal recognition. If you're not part of the problem, / you're part of the lengthening / tragedy, Harmon writes in an introductory pastoral, seeking out the stray / detours and workarounds of the secret / city inside the more obvious one] on the outskirts of the absurd / attention to the material life. Poughkeepsie is that city of the heart where no one can look at anyone else alone, where the noise of beauty is a cop's bullet polishing off a traffic-struck doe, where five dollars takes you anywhere in this town / except out of it.

Winner of the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie is a tender anti-epic, a grunge-tinged love song to America's benighted post-industrial heartland. Harmon's Poughkeepsie shimmers just beyond the borders of banal recognition. If you're not part of the problem, / you're part of the lengthening / tragedy, Harmon writes in an introductory pastoral, seeking out the stray / detours and workarounds of the secret / city inside the more obvious one] on the outskirts of the absurd / attention to the material life. Poughkeepsie is that city of the heart where no one can look at anyone else alone, where the noise of beauty is a cop's bullet polishing off a traffic-struck doe, where five dollars takes you anywhere in this town / except out of it.