John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were-in Holmes's words-"e;Brother Souls.
To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets-the perils and promises-of change in the rapidly modernizing Egypt of the nineteenth century.
A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux "e;A dryly charming look at the way the French live now, through the sharp eyes of its most acclaimed chronicler.
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author shares her rough journey to adulthood in a book that “should be read by every American” (Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette).
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "e;Her enduring message-that writing can be redemptive-resonates: 'To write is to make a mark in the world, to assert "e;I am.
Walker Percy (1916-1990), the reclusive southern author most famous for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer, spent much of his adult life in Covington, Louisiana.
Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914.
The apostle Paul's theology of glory has its foundations in the biblical drama of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation, and in the identity of Jesus as revealed in his teachings, life, death, and resurrection.
Focusing on how rape, sexual assault, and harassment relate to underrepresentation of women in public authority, this book provides an insightful exploration of the policy context that impedes women's advancement to positions of power.
A study of realism and folk literature and of the sources and techniques of storytelling Alias Simon Suggs is a study in the life and writings of Johnson J.
Olga Bakich’s biography of Valerii Pereleshin (1913–1992) follows the turbulent life and exquisite poetry of one of the most remarkable Russian émigrés of the twentieth century.
From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women's activist, and intellectual.
Shouting Down the Silence presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain.
Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.
This book introduces the unique archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, emails and photographs from asylum seekers held indefinitely in offshore detention at Topside Camp, Nauru 2001-5.
The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of American and world literature.
»Orte sind Ausgangspunkte«: Thomas Wilds großer Essay lädt zur Neuentdeckung Ilse Aichingers einMuß nicht alles immer wieder neu entdeckt werden, um zu bleiben?
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontes.
'Against the white sand, the contours of my father's body were well defined, emphasized its existence in a world where everything was liquid, where the blue of the sea melted into the blue of the sky with nothing between.
Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies written that yearKing Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.
Claudia Hammerschmidt basa su estudio sobre Guillermo Cabrera Infante en la simultaneidad de vaciamiento y remotivación de la lengua; en la de la pérdida y recuperación del control sobre las fuerzas que operan en todo acto de habla; en la de la carencia de poder autorial y la reapropiación retrospectiva del propio texto.
