Andrew Smith is the Kurt Vonnegut of YA . . . [Smith s novels] are the freshest, richest, and weirdest books to hit the YA world in years. Entertainment Weekly Skillfully blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, award-winning Grasshopper Jungle author Andrew Smith chronicles the story of Ariel, a refugee who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel's story is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century . . . and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.

Over a period of seven years Reiner Leist traveled across America, photographing people from Rochester to Key West and from New York City to Los Angeles. Before making a portrait the photographer asked each person to provide him with a childhood photograph. This childhood image often supplied the initial visual framework for his portrait. The essays which accompany each pair of images reveal the subjects' own views on their lives and what it means to be an American. Like America itself, the book presents a diverse tableau of race and background, youth and experience, native born and immigrant, capturing the complex mix of American today.

In this two-volume work, hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts. ? Hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries discuss authors, literary works, movements, genres, and social issues ? An alphabetical list of entries offers a quick survey of the encyclopedia's contents ? A guide to related topics quickly and conveniently directs readers to entries likely to interest them ? Bibliographies for specific entries help students find sources of additional information on specialized topics ? A selected, general bibliography directs students to the most helpful print and electronic resources on contemporary LGBTQ American literature

"The twenty-three essays and three interviews collected here give us Arthur Miller's views on the theatre including such topics as the origins of modern drama, the nature of tragedy, what makes plays endure, the theatre in Russia and at home, on Broadway and at New York's Lincoln Center. Above all, they give eloquent expression of his belief in the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone."--

A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.