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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... Les mer
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... Les mer
Troubled
Everyone falls in love with his or her therapist at least a little. But what happens when the therapist not only loves you back but also acts upon... Les mer
Tworki
In Tworki, a village just southwest of Warsaw, there is a psychiatric hospital and in that hospital, the patients and their caretakers are hidden... Les mer
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... Les mer
The Coming of the Frontier Press
From the first story about the discovery of gold in California in 1848 to features on today’s western boomtowns, western expansion and journalism... Les mer
The Note She Left - Poems
Hahn’s new collection wrestles with the elemental and enduring challenges of the human condition: What can we use from our spiritual heritage? How... Les mer
The Value of Names and Other Plays
Spanning a quarter of a century, this collection of plays demonstrates author Jeffrey Sweet’s eye for the drama of human relationships. Sweet works... Les mer
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... Les mer
Making Theatre
While readers of theater history will find this biography invaluable, those more interested in the personal story of a writer's commitment to her... Les mer
True Stories
Journalism in the twentieth century was marked by the rise of literary journalism. Sims traces more than a century of its history, examining the... Les mer
Voices in a Mask - Stories
Based on images of disguise in literature, theater, and opera, this short-story cycle explores themes of identity and subterfuge in a fictional fugue... Les mer
Satyr Square - A Year, a Life in Rome
Part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue, this loving reflection is a poignant, funny narrative about an American... Les mer
Difference and Givenness
From one end of his philosophical work to the other, Gilles Deleuze consistently described his position as a transcendental empiricism. But just what... Les mer
Wide Awake in the Windy City
In Wide Awake in the Windy City, Matt Golosinski traces the century-long ascent of the Kellogg School of Management, detailing its influence on... Les mer
Walter Netsch
Northwestern University Library presents the first monograph devoted to the architect Walter Netsch, an early partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill... Les mer
Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky
Most discussions of sexuality in the work of Dostoevsky have been framed in Freudian terms. But Dostoevsky himself wrote about sexuality from a... Les mer
The Human Place in the Cosmos
Upon Scheler’s death in 1928, Martin Heidegger remarked that he was the most important force in philosophy at the time. Jose Ortega y Gasset called... Les mer
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
Lincoln Kirstein was a tireless champion of the arts in America. Working behind the scenes to provide artists with money, space, audiences, and, at... Les mer
Writing a Usable Past
In Writing a Usable Past, Brintlinger considers the interactions of post-Revolutionary Russian and émigré culture with the genre of biography in... Les mer
Zizek’s Ontology
Slavoj Zizek is one of the most interesting and important philosophers working today, known chiefly for his theoretical explorations of popular... Les mer
Sidewalks - Portraits of Chicago
Few people know Chicago as do Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood, and their "Sidewalks" column for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine is a tour... Les mer
Zizek’s Ontology A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity
Slavoj Zizek is one of the most interesting and important philosophers working today, known chiefly for his theoretical explorations of popular... Les mer
The Environment and the Press
This history of environmental journalism looks at how the practice now defines issues and sets the public agenda evolving from a tradition that... Les mer