C&R Press

Virgil Su?rez's latest short story collection--his first in more than two decades--is subversive and emotionally piercing. A man whose yard is plagued by armadillos, a pair of boys who torment...

Poetry. THE SPITE HOUSE is a book of dark vision and broad range, haunted by intimacy and anger, by a fierce fidelity to truth and to the elusiveness of truth, by emotional, spiritual, cultural, and...

It is the mid-1980s, the era of so-called reformist apartheid, and South Africa is in flames. Police and military are gunning down children at the forefront of the liberation struggle. Far from such...

tommy noun. employs familiar systems of knowledge and construction-grammar, dictionary, myth, legacy-as anchor to speak to the death of someone too young. What happens when sorrow deluges the...

The stories in Transubstantiation are windows that the characters peer through, hoping to see more clearly. They're in the real world but their reality is skewed - things disappear, people change or...

Poetry. African & African American Studies. "What is and has always been needed is an honest, clear, loving voice. Earl Braggs' UGLY LOVE (NOTES FROM THE NEGRO SIDE OF THE MOON) offers that. Pull up...

Everyone knows you don't talk about the elephant in the room. But, what if you are the elephant in the room? White Boys from Hell files a report on the position of the straight white male in current...

A page by page erasure of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, Sousa's Yell subverts and contemporizes the original story of an oppressed housewife, and would-be writer, driven mad. In...