The Poems of CatullusWritten in the twilight of the Roman Republic, the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus offers a delicious insight into the passions and gossip of high Roman society. From the poet and his friends to cultural and political titans, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey, his cutting, modern verse spares no one. In this new translation by Daisy Dunn, author of Catullus Bedspread, his obscene honesty, arrogant wit and surprising tenderness capture Roman

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Stray City is an unabashedly entertaining literary debut about the families we’re born into and the families we choose

From her anti-apartheid work and support of affirmative action to her passionate opposition to the Iraq War and calls to hold Trump to account

Stella and Angel decide to hide Louise’s body and pretend she’s still alive

Poor Charlotte Stone

In the early 1920s

One of them is telling the truth

and the time I pulled down my pants at a badminton game

At once a salvation and a mystery to his parents—with whom Max’s biological mother left the child with the cryptic exhortation “don’t let my baby do rodeo”—Max suddenly turns feral

explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common

a mysterious eye-shaped building

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