FORTHCOMING Winter 2027
What is Romance Studies? What could it be? This book is a sustained attempt to define—indeed, invent—the field, both in theory and in practice. It is therefore both a manifesto for Romance Studies as a discipline that may be an antidote to bureaucratic reason and, more broadly, a provocative but accessible introduction to methods of[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
FORTHCOMING Winter 2026
“Why are penetrating questions so much harder to formulate than penetrating answers?” critic Louis Bury asks. Why, indeed. It’s a great question, and also the throughline of Labyrinths: New and Selected Writings. In this collection, Munro formulates penetrating questions (punctums) again and again, and with style and economy. The stories that follow are never reduced[…]
Published: 03/29/2019
On the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” and always in some way relating to a “beyond,” the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature — from the odd room over the[…]