December 5, 2022
“In the end we all received a registration number: a white, elongated strip of cloth with a black triangle that meant work-shy. (But how could I be work-shy? I was… READ MORE
December 1, 2022
As the year draws to a close and December is upon us, you will find new releases from Boydell & Brewer! It’s an extra long list this month, so don’t… READ MORE
November 29, 2022
The engraving manuscript of Gabriel Fauré’s song ‘L’hiver a cessé’, which dates from February 1894, is one of the more fascinating musical autographs of its era. Its first pages are… READ MORE
November 24, 2022
When researching my book Performance in Beowulf and Other Old English Poems, an issue developed in my thinking that I partially tested, and it’s something that has become more pertinent… READ MORE
November 22, 2022
Ecuadorian literature is among the most exciting Latin American writing today. Authors like Mónica Ojeda (Guayaquil, 1988), María Fernanda Ampuero (Guayaquil, 1976) and Gabriela Alemán (1968) are winning and being shortlisted for international prizes, and their… READ MORE
November 15, 2022
Let’s approach the picaresque by way of irony. It could be said that all great narratives depend on irony, which might include the unexpected, the paradoxical, and the ambiguous. A… READ MORE
November 10, 2022
In my recently published book Grete Meisel-Hess: The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis, I assert that cultural modernism in Germany and Austria was deeply embedded in racist and ableist… READ MORE
November 8, 2022
Reading is again in crisis. The 1990s digital revolution was thought to generate the unqualified good of more readers with access to vastly wider ranges of reading material. Yet thirty… READ MORE
November 2, 2022
The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust by Ceija StojkaEdited and translated by Lorely E. French First English translation of the memoirs of Austrian Romani Holocaust… READ MORE
November 1, 2022
Welcome to November! We are very excited to share some of our new releases this month, don’t forget about the special discount at the bottom! Death and Disease in the… READ MORE
Books to Look out for in February 2023