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The Void of Ethics
In a pluralistic society without absolute standards of judgment, how can an individual live a moral life? This is the question Robert Musil...
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Victory Gardens Theater Presents
In 2001, Victory Gardens Theater received the Tony Award for Regional Theatre and was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the...
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Waiting for Gautreaux
On his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney and partner in a Chicago law firm, met some friends to discuss a...
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Apprehending the Inaccessible
Throughout history philosophers have relentlessly pursued what may be called "inaccessible domains." This book explores how the traditions...
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The Architects
Written between 1963 and 1966, when its publication would have proved to be political dynamite-and its author's undoing-this novel of political...
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The Military and the Press
Because news is a weapon of war--affecting public opinion, troop morale, even strategy--for more than a century America's wartime officials have...
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Earl B. Dickerson
At fifteen, Earl Burrus Dickerson stowed away on a train in Canton, Mississippi, fleeing the racial oppression of his native South. But Chicago, the...
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Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood
Although Albanian literature dates back to the 1500s, creative prose in that nation is very much a twentieth-century phenomenon; and much as the...
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Poems - A Bilingual Edition
In cities strange and yet weirdly familiar, women watched by monstrous demons give birth to headless infants, vast gods straddle apartment blocks and...
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Postmodern Pooh
Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, this sequel of sorts to the...
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Night of Denial: Stories and Novellas
The first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, Ivan Bunin is often considered the last of the great Russian masters. Already...
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Binding Words
In a work that brings a new field-altering perspective as well as new tools to the history of philosophy, Karen S. Feldman offers a powerful and...
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Lessons and Legacies VII
As the discipline of Holocaust studies matures, new questions and themes come to the fore. Among these are critical issues that receive serious...
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Literature and Human Equality
When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr....
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The Black Notebook
In the heart of the Latin Quarter, meeting place of marginal characters of all sorts, Celine Poulin, who was born a midget, works the night shift at...
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Subject to Delusions
A figure of reflexivity, narcissism describes a relation between self and other mediated through the mirror or reflection. As such, the concept might...
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Testimony after Catastrophe
Survivors of political violence give testimonies in families and communities, trials and truth commissions, religious institutions, psychotherapies,...
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Bonbons Assortis/Assorted Candies
Bonbons Assortis /Assorted Candies completes Michel Tremblay's autobiographical narrative oeuvre. Like the previous three volumes, which...
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Bug: A Play
This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-con...
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Femme du Monde: Poems
These are poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliche, fiercely signifying in an age of raging...
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Fire on Water / Porgess and The Abyss
It occurred to me why I was able to forgive the Italians, but never the Germans. Was it because the Italians never slept on mattresses stuffed with...
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Child of a Turbulent Century
Victor Erlich was born in 1914, at the threshold of what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova called "the real twentieth century," in...
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Miss Julie
As all the great dramatists since the Greek tragedians have known, class and gender roles continue to remain the two fundamental determinants of the...
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