LITERARY CRITICISM & ESSAYS
BLACK SPARROW
The Riot Inside Me: More Trials and Tremors (July, $18.95) by Wanda Coleman takes on questions of race and justice.
BROADWAY BOOKS/HARLEM MOON
Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Classics to the Contemporary (July, $18.95), edited by William H. Banks Jr., includes works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston as well as contemporary writers.
CADOGAN
There and Back Again: In the Footsteps of J.R.R. Tolkien's England (Apr., $14.95) by Mathew Lyons traces the influences of England and its landscapes on Tolkien's novels.
DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
Amerika: Contemporary Russian Authors Writing About the United States (May, $13.95), edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker, contains essays translated for the first time.
FEMINIST PRESS
Word: On Being a (Woman) Writer (May, $16.95), edited by Jocelyn Burrell. An international array of female authors consider the intimate and political activity of writing.
GRAYWOLF PRESS
Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (June, $15) by Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority, identity and beauty. Advertising.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays (Apr., $16.95) by David Lodge examines the enigmatic workings of the creative mind and includes essays on a range of novelists.
Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath (May, $14.95) by Helen Vendler reflects on these writers' first perfect poems.
OXFORD UNIV. PRESS
Peruvian Traditions (Mar.; $17.95, cloth $35) by Ricardo Palma, trans. by Helen Lane. The Peruvian author (1838—1919) writes anecdotes about conquerors, lovelorn friars and notorious characters.
PERSEA BOOKS
The Resilient Writer: Tales of Rejection and Triumph by Twenty Top Authors (June, $14.95), edited by Catherine Wald, contains testimonies to the trials of writing by such authors as Amy Tan and Edmund White.
PRINCETON UNIV. PRESS
Walden, 150th Anniversary Edition ($10.95), Cape Cod ($12.95) and The Maine Woods (all June, $16.95) by Henry David Thoreau are titles in the Princeton Classic Editions series.
RAYO
Border-Line Personalities (July, $12.95) by Michelle Herrera Mulligan and Robyn Moreno. Essays disclose what it's like being a 21st-century Latina born in the U.S.
SICKLE MOON/ELAND (dist. by Dufour Editions)
Cinema Eden: Essays from the Muslim Mediterranean (May, $19.95) by Juan Goytisolo. The exiled Spanish novelist writes about visits to Morocco, Turkey and Egypt.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Reprint: No Uncertain Terms: More Writing from the Popular "On Language" Column in theNew York Times Magazine (June, $13) by William Safire.
VINTAGE
Yes Is Said Yes I Will Yes (June, $11), edited by Nola Tully. Praise, parody and reminiscence celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Leopold Bloom's sublimely ordinary day in Dublin, from Joyce's Ulysses. Advertising.
Reprint: The Art of Travel (May, $13) by Alain de Botton.
WILDERNESS PRESS
Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson (May, $11.95), edited by Chris Highland, features 60 excerpts from Emerson's writings, each paired with the thoughts of poets, philosophers and teachers from around the world.
