Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resistance—the poetry of motherless tongues.  Meer

Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.  Meer

Glenda R. Carpio argues that we need a new paradigm for migrant fiction. She shows how contemporary authors expose the historical legacies and political injustices that produce forced migration.  Meer

Writing Backwards explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American literary culture.  Meer

Keegan Cook Finberg argues that poetry became an increasingly capacious force in the second half of the twentieth century because it could speak directly to the degradation of the social-democratic notion of the public.  Meer