Arts, Literature and Humanities

A personal perspective on the challenges of living through a global pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Michael Krüger was suffering from se...

This book is a collection of papers presented at a colloquium on ‘AfroAsian Musical Imaginaries’ that was organized by the IIC-IRD (India Internati...

The concluding novel in a trilogy that has become a landmark of Palestinian fiction. An Old Carriage with Curtains is the third and final book in ...

A dazzling selection of more than one hundred poems that trace the development of Durs Grünbein’s work over the past two decades. Born in Dresden ...

A tragicomic novel that explores deep-seated tensions and social violence in Haiti. After committing an irreparable crime, the narrator of The Em...

A posthumously published Hungarian masterpiece that reflects on fragmented lives. Born in 1963, Szilárd Borbély emerged as one of the most import...

A rare narrative of gay love in the Arab world that travels into the lives of a group of spirited youth during the Syrian Revolution. Youssef’s m...

A personal look into the mind of one of Europe’s first and foremost women of letters. At times poetic but not a poem, prosaic but not an essay, a...

Gender in Modern India brings together pioneering research on a range of themes including social reforms, caste, and contestations; Adivasis, patri...

Studies in Religion and the Everyday is a collection of essays addressing the contours of religious beliefs and practices in the context of everyda...

This book advances contemporary debates on the evolution of patriarchal institutions in agrarian transitions and the struggles for women's liberati...

A moving ode to the Mississippi delta inspired by magical realism and written in vibrant and poetic prose. Blues in the Blood is an ode to the sp...

A Fine Thread and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen translated stories originally written in Tamil by the acclaimed author Jeyamohan. Each s...

The playwright and poet, Michael Madhusudan Datta is easily one of the most important and controversial literary figures of nineteenth-century Sout...

Krishna is an anti-hero, an anarchist and a rebel extraordinaire. He fulfils all the dark desires lurking in the depths of our unconscious. He hold...

With his Indian vision and French sens de la plastique coalescing to create a unique modernism, S. H. Raza has been a master of colours, concepts a...

For over half a century, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri repeatedly emerged from the shadows as a vengeful ideologue hell-bent on changing histor...

Another Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture, volume 4 in the India Since the 90s series, reframes lens-based practice in India thr...

Leela Mukherjee (1916–2003) was one the first women sculptors of modern India. Born in Karachi, she was educated at Banaras and Santiniketan, where...

South Asia’s river systems are known for their multiple topographies and varied geography. There are several transnational rivers that flow to east...

The tales in Guilt Trip and Other Stories reveal an unbridled exuberance of appetite which mirrors women’s hungering for lost opportunities, the st...

A collection of two plays by Indian playwright Satish Alekar. Satish Alekar is widely considered one of the most progressive and influential play...

Is virtue what is compromised in an arranged (coerced/’forced’) marriage? Is that every girl’s horror movie dream? For Little Kankabaty, however, i...

Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kōlam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the...

A profound poem on the mystical and the ecstatic and about our connection with nature. Beachlight is a sustained poem divided into smaller parts ...

In this short and accessible book, Ewa Luger explains what we mean when we talk about AI, explores how we got here, describes what we are doing abo...

A beautiful and timely collection of poems written during the pandemic. The poems in Alice Attie’s new volume, Bending into the Light, are poised...

Widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation, Yves Bonnefoy has wowed the literary world for decades with his diffuse volumes. Firs...

Poetry from an especially deft magician of words. This latest book of wonders from Nancy Naomi Carlson fixes upon one of the few defenses we have...

The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the las...

A chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it. To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often be...

A brief study of select Western art from Italy’s foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince w...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching consequences on the lives of many across the globe; however, it was the most vulnerable sections of the ...

A highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan’s work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time. Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most sig...

A beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy. Praised by Paul Auster as “one of the rar...

Heralded as one of France's greatest poets, Yves Bonnefoy has been dazzling readers since the publication of his first book in 1953. He remains inf...

Compiling the best episodes of SAGE′s ′Social Science Bites′ podcast since its beginning in 2012, this pocket-sized volume is sure to inspire and p...

Originally published in 1972, this book aimed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the main theories of social stratification and t...

Starting sociology can be daunting. This user-friendly introduction takes the reader on a quest towards a sociological understanding of the world w...

Subcultures: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to subcultures in a global context. This fully revised new edition adds new case...

Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach around the world, t...