New Books

And speaking of writers, English professor Ron Miller has two new books out this fall:

In On the Ruins of Modernity Ron Baxter Miller proposes that as the centuries turned and the nation became more diverse, the great Chicago Renaissances—especially the literary and cultural ones—never really ended. The nation’s cities simply became more richly complexioned and culturally nuanced.

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Critical Insights: Langston Hughes

Edited and with and introduction by R. Baxter Miller, Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the poet laureate of Harlem.