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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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Straddling Worlds
Author Steven J. Harper pays tribute to a well-respected teacher with this biography of a distinguished William Smith Mason Professor of History at...
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Fuchsia in Cambodia: Poems
Suffused with tenderness and humor, the poems in this new collection take readers on a journey through emotions, across national boundaries, and even...
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Deering Library - An Illustrated History
Published to commemorate the Deering Library's 75th anniversary, this book explores the Deering and McCormick families, who funded the project;...
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Design in the Age of Darwin
Charles Darwin's monumental On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, forever changed the landscape of natural science. The scientific world...
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Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century
This wide-ranging collection of critical essays on literary journalism addresses the shifting border between fiction and non-fiction, literature and...
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The Pain and the Itch - A Play
In this brief but staggering two-act, playwright Norris demonstrates his skill at drawing out the dark truth that lurks beneath the surface of the...
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