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At age 16, Dipita’s mother, Mbila, arrived in Switzerland from Cameroon. Trafficked into Europe, she supported herself and her son as a prostitute in Geneva. Dipita, now a young, black, gay man serving a five-year sentence in a Swiss prison, shares their story and his own search for purpose. He intertwines their stories with the life of Uncle Démoney, a former civil servant in Cameroon, who staked everything on sending his sister to Switzerland.

Notes from the Valley of Slaughter

Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is an eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust, written in the ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944). A physician, scholar, and community leader, Pick was a keen observer of the hardships of ghetto life, and his journal represents a detailed account of the tragic events he witnessed as well as a sensitive, almost poetic personal testament.

In This World of Ultraviolet Light

In eight captivating stories, In This World of Ultraviolet Light—winner of the 2021 Don Belton Prize—navigates tensions between Cubans, Cuban Americans, and the larger Latinx community. Though these stories span many locations—from a mulch manufacturing facility on the edge of Big Cypress National Preserve to the borderlands between Georgia and the Carolinas—they are overshadowed by an obsession with Miami as a place that exists in the popular imagination. Beyond beaches and palm trees, Raul Palma goes off the beaten path to portray everyday people clinging to their city and struggling to find cultural grounding. As Anjali Sachdeva writes, “This is fiction to steal the breath of any reader, from any background.”

Uprooting the Diaspora

In Uprooting the Diaspora, Sarah Cramsey explores how the Jewish citizens rooted in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia became the ideal citizenry for a post–World War II Jewish state in the Middle East. She asks, how did new interpretations of Jewish belonging emerge and gain support amongst Jewish and non-Jewish decision makers exiled from wartime east central Europe and the powerbrokers surrounding them?
Building a City

Building a City

Sheila E. Jelen, Jeffrey Saks, Wendy Zierler

The Richmond Group Artists

The Richmond Group Artists

Shaun Thomas Dingwerth

39 Berne Street

39 Berne Street

Max Lobe, Johanna McCalmont

In This World of Ultraviolet Light

In This World of Ultraviolet Light

Raul Palma

Railroads, Art, and American Life

Railroads, Art, and American Life

J. Craig Thorpe

French B Movies

French B Movies

David A. Pettersen

When We Collide

When We Collide

Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi

On Imposture

On Imposture

Serge Margel, Eva Yampolsky

Richard McNemar

Richard McNemar

Christian Goodwillie

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