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The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story
by Rusty Morrison (Ahsahta Press 2008)

Winner of the 2008 James Laughlin Award (the highest award given for a second book of poetry in the US). In the aftermath of her father's death, the speaker of Rusty Morrison's exquisitely formed poems takes a step-by-step accounting of her transformation Read more...

Winner of the James Laughlin Award (2008)

Lines of Velocity: Words That Move from Writegirl Keren Taylor, Ed.
(Writegirl 2008)

So far, the most recent Writegirl anthology has received FOUR national awards, including honorable mention in the NY Book Festival, finalist status in the Foreword Book of the Year awards, and a silver metal from the IPPY awards. Now it's won the Grand Prize in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards... Read more

1st Place Grand Prize, Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Khirbet Khizeh
by S. Yizhar
(Ibis Editions 2008)

"From the war in Iraq to the rumblings in Iran to the heightening tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, there are few bright spots in the Middle East these days. But one boutique Jerusalem press has cleared a space for conversation in a contentious region..."

Cultural Crossoads of the Levant (New York Times, June 29, 2008)

Letters from Abu Ghraib
by Joshua Casteel
(Essay Press 2008)

Casteel's feature article, "The Monk of Abu Ghraib," was published in the October issue of Harper's Magazine. His book is a collection of e-mail messages he sent to his friends and family during his service as a US Army interrogator and Arabic linguist in the 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion, stationed at the notorious prison...

The Monk of Abu Ghraib

(Harpers, October 2008)