Alyce Mahon Princeton University Press ($45) by Penelope Rosemont The Marquis de Sade is “one of history’s most reviled men, branded a pervert, a pornographer,

John Carey Yale University Press ($25) by James P. Lenfestey John Carey, a retired Oxford don, tells this “Little History of Poetry” like your pipe-smoking

Robert Kolker Doubleday ($25.95) by Grace Utomo Nine-year-old Mary Galvin wants to kill Donald so he’ll stop praying to her. It would be easy enough,

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Thomas Walton Sagging Meniscus Press ($17) by Eric Vasquéz All the Useless Things are Mine is an odd little book by poet/prose writer Thomas Walton.

Valerie Trouet Johns Hopkins University Press ($27) by John Toren Many of us were introduced to the science of dendrochronology at a young age, during

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Amanda Michalopoulou Translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito Dalkey Archive Press ($16.95) by Maria Hadjipolycarpou Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife, originally published in Greek in 2014 and