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Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays
Russia produced more notable dramas in the twentieth century than at any other time in its history, yet many of the plays from this period have been...
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Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity
At the center of Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity is the question: what could the term "multiplicity" mean for philosophy? Andrew Haas...
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Hieroglyphs of Another World
The author of several volumes of poetry in Russian and English, Ilya Kutik is also a consummate essayist in the Russian tradition: aphoristic,...
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Medallions
Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style, a style the Polish...
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Anton Chekhov: A Life
"Without question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and like to remain so for a very long time to come. . . . [Rayfield] captures a likeness...
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Memoirs of a Space Traveler
Ijon Tichy is an ordinary space traveler whose extraordinary curiosity leads him to the very fringes of science. Their plans are grandiose, the...
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Divine and Human and Other Stories
Drawing on the tragic past of Russia and its empire to comment on the issues and ideas of his day, Leo Tolstoy wrote the stories in Divine and Human...
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Miscellaneous Writings
This anthology, reflecting virtually every stage of G. W. F. Hegel's life and every area of his interests, provides the most complete picture yet...
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She Loves Me
In ninety-seven short chapters PÉter EsterhÁzy contemplates love and hate and sex and desire from the point of a view of a narrator who considers...
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Mothers and Daughters
The first psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia, Mothers and Daughters explains how and why women radicals of the nineteenth...
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Power, Money, and Media
This book addresses, as few books in English have, a broad range of topics pertaining to China's expanding media and telecommunications systems....
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The Murder of the Jews in Latvia 1941-1945
At the end of June 1941, Latvia fell into the hands of the Germans. This book is an account of life and death during the subsequent Nazi reign of...
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Music of Another World
Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing...
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Escape Through the Pyrenees
Though it reads like a suspense novel, this memoir is Lisa Fittko's extraordinary story of life as an "enemy alien" in France before...
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Landscape with Smokestacks
The dispute over one work of art, Degas's Landscape with Smokestacks, was featured in headlines and on television. But because the suit was...
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Renaissance Drama 29 - New Series XIX 1998 Dramas of Hybridity
Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The...
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A Novel Without Lies (Vol.23 of the GLAS Series)
This is the story of an extraordinary friendship and an extraordinary poet seen through the prism of an extraordinary time and place--the upside-down...
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Future Crossings
Future Crossings uses a broad spectrum of philosophers and writers--Acker, Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, Derrida, Joyce, Levinas, Nancy, Wordsworth, and...
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Medallions
Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style, a style the Polish...
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A Brief Excursion and Other Stories
The novel A Brief Excursion anchors this collection of fiction by one of the most significant postwar Croatian writers. This novel and six stories,...
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The Chain of Chance
Written in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical...
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Charon’s Ferry: Fifty Poems
At the heart of this collection are meditations on cultural values, Hungarian history, and the legacy of suppression and survival. Included in this...
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The Spirit of Poesy
A testament to the "spirit of poesy" that informs the life and work of Geza von Molnar, this volume of essays comes together around his...
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City of Ash
Although the title of this sensitive collection refers to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, City of Ash serves as a universal geography of the...
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