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The Journals: Volume 1: 1949-1965
John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, The Collector, but his labor on what may be his greatest...
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Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature
In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question of nature is almost entirely forgotten—obscured in part by a myopic focus on solving...
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Paul Bowles: A Life
Paul Bowles, best known for his classic 1949 novel, The Sheltering Sky, is one of the most compelling yet elusive figures of twentieth-century...
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Petersburg: The Physiology of a City
This landmark collection of short works forms a vivid documentary of life in midnineteenth-century St. Petersburg. Editor Nikolai Nekrasov was the...
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0°, 0° - Poems
0° , 0° is where the equator and prime meridian cross, but it is also, in Amit Majmudar’s poetic cartography, "the one True Cross, the...
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Chance and Circumstance
Carolyn Brown, one of the most renowned dancers of the last half-century, lived at the center of New York's bold and vibrant artistic community,...
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A Force for Change
The Julius Rosenwald Fund has been largely ignored in the literature of both art history and African American studies, despite its unique focus,...
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The Night of the Hunter
Reaching simultaneously into the realms of film and literature, this detailed exploration of The Night of the Hunter examines the genesis and the...
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The Ninth - A Novel
Set in a sleepy village north of Budapest in 1968, this touching, unsettling novel paints a richly wrought portrait of mid-twentieth-century Hungary....
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No Love Without Poetry
The memoirs of Ariadna Efron have informed all important studies of Marina Tsvetaeva’s writing and are indispensable to a complete understanding of...
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Singular Examples
This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial "compositions"—verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and...
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City Dog: Essays
When a self-proclaimed "lazy scholar" embarks on a trip through his life's influences--as diverse as girl-group doo-wop, Yeats, and Van...
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Öyvind Fahlstrom: The Art of Writing
Öyvind Fahlstrom (1928-76), the Brazilian-born Swedish multi-artist, is one of the mid-twentieth century's most intriguing cultural figures. His...
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Hegel on Hamann
In 1828, G. W. F. Hegel published a critical review of Johann George Hamann, a retrospective of the life and works of one of Germany's most...
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The Conservative Resurgence and the Press
Consumers of American media find themselves in a news world that has shifted toward more conservative reporting. This book takes a measured,...
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Toronto, Mississippi
Jhana is a beautiful, mentally handicapped eighteen-year-old who lives with her mother, Maddie, and their boarder, Bill, a poet. Jhana's father,...
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Contemporary Russian Fiction (Vol.46 of the GLAS Series)
The living voices of eleven leading Russian authors: Boris Akunin, Evgeny Grishkovets, Eduard Limonov, Yuri Mamleev, Viktor Pelevin, Ludmila...
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High Road to China, The
Touching, humorous, and illuminating, this travelogue takes readers back in time to a remarkable, world-shaping moment. With rich language and the...
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Fort Dearborn: A Novel
In a story that brings to life the founding of one of the world's great cities, Fort Dearborn takes us back to Chicago's early struggle of...
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Lessons and Legacies VIII
Primo Levi opened his memoir Survival in Auschwitz with a call to remember, reflect upon, and teach about the Holocaust—or to face the rejection of...
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After Jena: New Essays on Fichte
The career of J. G. Fichte, a central figure in German idealism and in the history of philosophy, divides into two distinct phases: the first period,...
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Stick Fly - A Play
Adept at capturing the experience of the upper-middle-class African-American, Diamond lays out two families' worth of secrets in this precise...
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The History of Philosophy - A Reader
With the aim of guiding readers along, in Hegel's words, "the long process of education towards genuine philosophy," this introduction...
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Lightning from the Depths
If a people
Have no poets
And no poetry of their own
For a National Anthology
Then treachery and barking
Will do the...
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