Publications by Boria Sax include books of scholarship, poetry, reference, translation, memoirs, and other genres, as well as a few hundred shorter pieces. Two scholarly books have been named to list of “outstanding academic titles of the year” compiled by the journal Choice: Animals and the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust (Continuum, 2000) and The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia of Animals in Myth, Legend, and Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2002). Books have been translated into French, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Chinese, Czech, and Arabic.
A memoir about growing up in the shadow of atomic espionage is forthcoming in the latter part of 2009. Also completed is a book on a history of the ravens in the Tower of London, which is now under contract with the agency Lit Enterprises, as well as a collection of poems and stories to be published by Grim Reaper Press.
Books Published include, among others, the Following:
BOOKS OF SCHOLARSHIP AND TRANSLATION
The Crow. London: Reaktion Books, 2003 (Published in Turkish translation by Kitapyayinevi in Istanbul, in French by Delachaux et Niestlé [part of La Martiniere Group] in Paris, in Korean by Karam Publishing Co in Seoul, in Chinese by Sina, and in Arabic by Kalima).
The Mythical Zoo: An A-Z of Animals in World Myth, Legend, and Literature. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust. New York: Continuum Publishing, 2000, to be reprinted 2007 (Published in Japanese translation by Seidosha Press in Tokyo, Japan, 2002; published in Czech translation by Dorkoran Press in Prague in late 2003).
The Fantastic,Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow (edited anthology of translations). Sacramento: Xenos Books, 2001.
The Serpent and the Swan: Animal Brides in Literature and Folklore. Austin: U. of Tennessee Press, 1998 (formerly published by McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co.).
The Parliament of Animals: Legends and Anecdotes fromBooks of Natural History, 1775‑1900New York: PaceUniversity Press, 1992.
The Frog King: On Fairy Tales, Fables and Anecdotes of Animals. New York: PaceUniversity Press, 1990.
The Romantic Heritage of Marxism: A Study of East German Love Poetry. Bern: Peter Lang, 1987.
Contacts/Kontakte: Poems and Writings of Lutz Rathenow (edited anthology of translations). Providence: The Poet's Press, 1985.
MEMOIR
Stealing Fire: A Childhood in the Shadow of Atomic Espionage. Ad Infinitum Books: Yonkers, to be published in 2009.
