'I wonder if some of the most deeply passionate experiences of my life have happened between the covers of a book'A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.
Die wichtigsten Schriften zur Politik und GesellschaftAlfred Döblin war nicht nur ein großer Erzähler, sondern gehörte auch zu der in Deutschland seltenen Spezies des engagierten Intellektuellen.
In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine.
Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition.
Nearly ten years after her husband was killed in a car accident-and three days before the 2003 release of her first edition of this book-Paula Moulton took a risk and enrolled in a ten-month wine management program at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.
Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation—from inside and outChange looms in Cuba.
What is the meaning of "e;adventure"e; as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes?
A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by Andre Aciman *; Sarah Boxer *; Jennifer Finney Boylan *; Susie Boyt *; Gerald Early *; Esther Freud *; Rivka Galchen *; Adam Gopnik *; David Gordon *; Siri Hustvedt *; Sheila Kohler *; Peter D.
Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on Goethe and visual culture.
A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century.
This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut.
In Casting Quiet Waters, some of North Americas most respected literary writers take us on a fishing trip and use that as an opportunity to explore issues of the human condition.
Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, presents a new collection of essays, following on from his four previous collections, Music, Art and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), and Musical Concerns (2015).
The northeastern seaboard of North America, extending from Labrador to Cape Cod, was the first region of North America to suffer from human exploitation.
