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“Susannah Dickey’s Isdal is an astonishingly inventive look at a cold case, that of an unidentified woman found in 1970 near Bergen in Norway. Armed with a wide variety of formal approaches and a formidable vocabulary, Dickey explores and satirizes the true crime genre, and specifically our culture’s obsession with female victims.” Read more...
Notable Poetry Books of 2024: The Inaugural PEN Heaney Prize Shortlist
Paula Meehan, Poet
Our most recommended books
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The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri -

Paradise Lost
by John Milton -

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson -

Staying Alive
by Neil Astley (editor) -

William Wordsworth: The Major Works
by Stephen Gill (editor)






