In The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, 2016 National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky holds to account the private interests driving Western humanitarian decisions, laying bare the immense toll of exploitative labor practices and the self-serving nature of authoritative bodies. These powerful, musical poems explore our hemispheric grief under the...

Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. Her new book, To Be a Water Protector: Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers, is an expansive, provocative engagement with issues that have been central to her many years of activism. LaDuke honours Mother Earth...

Part of the Bobcat Reads Virtual Book Club (offered to Alumni): More Info For over fifty years the Turners have lived on Yarrow Street. Their house has seen thirteen children get grown and gone—and some return; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit’s East Side, and...

by Nancy Campbell Long captivated by the solid yet impermanent nature of ice, by its stark, rugged beauty, acclaimed poet and writer Nancy Campbell sets out from the world’s northernmost museum – at Upernavik in Greenland – to explore it in all its facets. From the Bodleian Library archives to...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMore than ONE MILLION copies soldA TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club PickA New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Readers’ Choice Best Book of the Century, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best...

YEAR: 2011 ARTISTS: Enrique Chagoya, Lesley Dill, Brad Kahlhamer, Shirin Neshat, Nicky Nodjoumi, Alison Saar AUTHOR: Dan Mills EDITOR: Dan Mills DESIGNER: Victoria Blaine Wallace PUBLISHER: Bates College Lewiston, ME DETAILS: Softcover, 22 pages, [8 ½ x 11 in dimensions], [21 color images] EXHIBITION: Tale Spinning DATES: September 23-December 17, 2011...

A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read. As young men, he...

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for FictionFrom “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who goes for a swim in her apartment complex’s swimming pool one morning…and won’t come out. It’s November 3,...

A New York Times Notable BookRereading her childhood diaries, Heidi Julavits hoped to find incontrovertible proof that she was always destined to be a writer. Instead, they “revealed me to possess the mind of a phobic tax auditor.” Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life—now as a forty-something woman,...

by Nancy Campbell In the wake of a traumatic lockdown, Nancy Campbell buys an old caravan and drives it into a strip of neglected woodland between a canal and railway. It is the first home she has ever owned. It will not move again.As summer begins, Nancy embraces the challenge of how to...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“ groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of...

2016 National Book Award Winner Following in the path of his acclaimed collections THE BOOK OF INTERFERING BODIES (Nightboat, 2011) and IN THE MURMURS OF THE ROTTEN CARCASS ECONOMY (Nightboat, 2015), Daniel Borzutzky returns to confront the various ways nation-states and their bureaucracies absorb and destroy communities and economies. In...

At once an extension of and a departure from his previous explorations of family and art, Craig Morgan Teicher’s The Trembling Answers delves boldly into the tangled realms of fatherhood, marriage, and poetry. Dealing with the day-to-day of family life—including the alert anxiety and remarkable beauty of caring for a child with...

Exhibition catalogue featuring color reproductions of brass and painted Orthodox Christian icons. Introduction by George Contis, M.D., M.P.H., image commentary by Bates professors Rebecca Corrie and Robert Allison. YEAR: 2003 ARTISTS: Various Skilled Artisans? AUTHOR: George Contis DESIGNER: Mahan Graphics Bath, Maine DETAILS: Softcover, 12 pages, [11 x 5 ½ in dimensions],...

Exhibition catalogue includes acknowledgements by Genetta McLean, essay by Philip M. Isaacson, and exhibition checklist. Reproductions include The Good Samaritan by Rodolph Bresdin and author’s note includes reference to Simon Schama’s Landscapes and Memory. YEAR: 2001 ARTISTS: Hyman Bloom AUTHORS: Phillip Isaacson DESIGNER: Mahan Graphics, Bath, ME PUBLISHER: Bates College...

This set of twelve note cards features two each of six landscape drawings by Marsden Hartley (1877–1943)—the noted American Modernist and self-proclaimed “painter of Maine”. The cards complement the exhibition Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts.