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...

Single Monhegan Island Card 11" x 14" Artwork by Ronald Bosse, Bates College Staff Member.

Single Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Card 4" x 6" Blank inside Envelope is included Sealed with protective plastic wrap Artwork by Ronald Bosse, Bates College Staff Member.

Single Portland Head Lighthouse Card 4x6 inches Blank inside Envelope is included Sealed with protective plastic wrap Artwork by Ronald Bosse, Bates College Staff Member.

Some Problems with Autobiography, Brian Brodeur’s fourth collection, grapples with the porous and fragmentary nature of midwestern American identity in poems that range across prosodic forms and hybrid genres. By turns self-mocking, meditative, and tragi-comic, this book explores the perils of digital technologies, ecological uncertainties, and the inadequacy of language...

TITLE: The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away YEAR: 2008 ARTISTS: Abdi Roble AUTHORS: Essay Doug Rutledge EDITOR: Photo editor Stanley Kayne PUBLISHER: University Press of Minnesota Press Minneapolis DETAILS: Softcover, book, 188 pages [10 x 10 in dimensions], [135 non color images] EXHIBITION: The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away DATES: January 23 –...

Single Loons Card 4" x 6" Blank inside Envelope is included Artwork by Ronald Bosse, Bates College Staff Member.

Single Loons Print 14" x 11" Artwork by Ronald Bosse, Bates College Staff Member.

Erica Rand, Professor of Art and Visual Culture, Bates College In The Small Book of Hip Checks Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check—including an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off-balance and the inspection of racialized gender—to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing....

by Ru Freeman '93 In this collection of rich and textured stories about crossing borders, both real and imagined, Sleeping Alone asks one of the fundamental questions of our times: What is the toll of feeling foreign in one’s land, to others, or even to oneself? A cast of misfits, young...

Single Bates Dance Festival Card 4" x 6" Blank inside Envelope is included Sealed with protective plastic wrap Artwork by Ronald Bosse, Bates College Staff Member.