Northwestern University Press

  • A Luis Leal Reader

    Since his first publication in 1942, Luis Leal has likely done more than any other writer or scholar to foster a critical appreciation of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literature…

    $36.95
  • A Thing of This World

    At a time when the analytic/continental split dominates contemporary philosophy, this ambitious work offers a careful and clear-minded way to bridge that divide.  Combining conceptual rigor and clarity of prose…

    $34.95
  • A Thing of This World

    At a time when the analytic/continental split dominates contemporary philosophy, this ambitious work offers a careful and clear-minded way to bridge that divide.  Combining conceptual rigor and clarity of prose…

    $79.95
  • And Other Stories

    Wildly imaginative and endlessly entertaining, Georgi Gospodinov’s short stories provide a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges and a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-Communist life…

    $14.95
  • And Other Stories

    Wildly imaginative and endlessly entertaining, Georgi Gospodinov’s short stories provide a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges and a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-Communist life…

    $44.95
  • Avenue of Vanishing

    In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes…

    $16.95
  • Avenue of Vanishing

    In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes…

    $49.95
  • Bentley on Brecht

    Winner, 2006 International Association of Theatre Critics Thalia Prize Recipient, 2007 The Robert Chesley Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in Playwriting Winner, 2006 Village Voice OBIE Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Since…

    $29.95
  • Bernardo and the Virgin

    In 1980, with the Sandinistas newly in power, tailor and pig farmer Bernardo Martinez witnesses an extraordinary thing: an otherworldly glow about the statue of the Virgin Mary in the…

    $19.95
  • Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir

    Winner of 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award Children who anesthetize—and dress up—small wild animals in an ill-fated attempt to cheer their grieving mother; childhood friends who…

    $16.95
  • brutt, or The Sighing Gardens

    brütt, or The Sighing Gardens is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer’s love affair late in life as told through the daily journal entries of the writer—a montage of…

    $24.95
  • Enemies from the East?

    As cultural conflicts roil the world, the idea of a “clash of civilizations” has lately taken hold, with commentators from both East and West weighing the religious and political disparities…

    $74.95