A Beginner’s Guide to Old Nubian

Imprint: Dotawo

FORTHCOMING Winter 2027

A Beginner’s Guide to Old Nubian is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the Old Nubian language, a historically significant yet often overlooked linguistic heritage of the medieval Nubian kingdoms. Flourishing between the 8th and 15th centuries CE in the Middle Nile Valley, encompassing parts of present day northern Sudan and southern Egypt, Old Nubian[…]

Lividity

Imprint: Les Figues

Published: 05/08/2024

In Lividity, poet Kim Rosenfield works within the outskirts of language, draining it of connotation and excess. Using words and phrases culled from linguistics textbooks and language-learning manuals, Rosenfield invites the reader to experience the everyday vernacular as dislocated affect. What happens when language acts as organ donor? When language, the conveyor of our vulnerability,[…]