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  • Ploughshares Fall 2024

    by Ladette Randolph, Andre Dubus III, Gretchen Ernster Henderson, Benjamin Hoffmann, Aiysha Jahan, Joy Notoma, Shuchi Saraswat, Jen Silverman, Richard Stock, Daniel Taylor ...
    The Fall 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the most innovative voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2024 Issue, edited by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Paradoxes of Posterity

    by Benjamin Hoffmann ...
    Translated by Alan J. Singerman ...
    The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal immortality, or to turn their hope toward the spiritual immortality promised by religious systems, literary creators seek a symbolic form of perpetuity granted to the intellectual side of their person in ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Posthumous America

    Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century

    by Benjamin Hoffmann ...
    Translated by Alan J. Singerman ...
    Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Crèvecœur’s ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio

    by Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia ...
    Translated by Alan J. Singerman ...
    First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia and the utopia he attempted to create in what is now Ohio.Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might have become without the Revolution, Lezay-Marnésia bought more than twenty thousand acres of land along the banks of ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

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  • The Enlightenment

    And Why It Still Matters

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  • The Great Cat Massacre

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2022

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  • The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

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  • In Defence of the Terror

    Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

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