"Women Writing in India: 600 BC to The Present - Volume 1, 600 BC to the Early 20th Century"

"Co-authored by: Susie Tharu

This volume offers 150 texts from 13 languages never before available in English. The editors of this book, together with 11 regional language editors, unearthed an astonishingly rich history of Indian women writers, from 6th century BC Buddhist nuns to polemical writers of the 19th century, from rebel medieval poets to 20th-century printer-publishers. The writings these women produced - vibrant and diverse, serious and funny - illuminate over 200 years of Indian women's lives. "

Windward Heights

"A retelling of Bronte's Wuthering Heights set in nineteenth-century Guadeloupe and Cuba.

Prize-winning Caribbean novelist Maryse Conde reimagines Emily Bronte's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the ""African"" Rayze and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Rayze in and raises him, but whose treatment goads Rayze into rebellious flight. In Cuba, Rayze makes his fortune, but upon his return he discovers Cathy has wed the weak scion of a socially prominent Creole family. Rayze determines to be avenged for the loss of his love. His vengeance continues into the next generation, haunting both Cathy's daughter and his son.

In characteristic lush prose, Conde transposes Wuthering Heights to her native island of Guadeloupe, retaining the emotional power of the original while showing us Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.

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What News of the War?

"Paris 1945-46. The war has finished and life has settled back into a semblance of normality, not least in Monsieur Albert's dressmaker's shop. Life appears to go on as normal here, but the pressers and machinists are survivors of the camps and for them life can never again be ""normal"". "

"Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light"

"Ivan Klima was in the US when Russian tanks entered Prague in 1968 but, against the advice of friends, he returned home. He became a dissident, writing books (never published) that were invariably inspired by Czechoslovakia's repressive regime. But what happens to a rebel artist when there is nothing left to rebel against? This question informs Klima's powerful novel, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, which describes life before, during, and after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. It is the story of Pavel, a middle-aged television cameraman working uneasily within the boundaries set by the regime, who dreams of one day making a film

Wait For Me At the Bottom of the Pool: The Writings of Jack Smith

"Co-authored by: Edward Leffingwell

During thirty years of astonishing activity as a filmmaker, photographer, and performer, Jack Smith produced a body of creative, antic writing that intersects and transcends the genres of hothouse fantasy, criticism, and social comment. Bringing together long unavailable essays, performance scripts, interviews, and other material, Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool reveals the ideas and personality of an artist whose distinctive vision has influenced generations of filmmakers and performance artists. "