Holding fast to an image of the past

Davidson discusses how Marxism can retain a sense of historical tradition without becoming fossilized.

Winter garden

Facing death from cancer, Neruda speaks to the genuine loves that nourished his life.

You can't win

This underground sensation, with heretofore unpublished material by the author, will be released as a movie in 2013.

Shelley unbound

Who’s the true author of Frankenstein? The evidence and the debate can be found here.

Rounding the human corners

"Linda Hogan's vision is breathtaking."--Barbara Kingsolver

Myth and mystique

Focuses on one of the most remarkable examples of gothic art to have survived, a unique functioning table decoration.

Tehran blues

The other poems

Fresh, fun, fast—these lunchtime playlet-sonnets feature unexpected persons speaking in direct and indirect relation to one another, making meanings.

To the green man

Eighth collection by master of the narrative poem and editor of The Reaper.

Air fare

The perfect flying companion: an anthology of poems, stories and essays on flying.

Subject matter

Sixth collection from this "fiction writer in a poet's body"--each poem in loose sonnet form!

In the shade of the qur'an vol. 15 (fi zilal al-qur'an)

With an ongoing influence upon Muslim thought, Sayyid Qutb's most profound work is a literary landmark of the twentieth century.

In the shade of the qur'an vol. 16 (fi zilal al-qur'an)

With an ongoing influence upon Muslim thought, Sayyid Qutb's most profound work is a literary landmark of the twentieth century.

Ungovernable life

Iraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq's political and medical infrastructure has been undermined by decades of U.S.-led sanctions and invasions. Since the British Mandate, Iraqi governme...

Driving and drinking

Driving and Drinking takes about an hour to read. It will stay with you a lifetime.

What are the blind men dreaming?

Three generations of women reflect, in their own words, on the Holocaust and bearing witness in Jewish and Brazilian identity.

Poems of the masters

For the first time in any Western language, the complete text of China's classic poetry anthology.

Teahouse of the almighty

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.From Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation’s premier performance poet. Featured in the film Slamnation and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, Smith is back with her first book in over a decade—a Na...

Good woman

Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton's first four published collections of extraordinary vibrant poetry—Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordi...

Recitation

A mysterious actress turned wanderer shares her story with a nameless emigrant "chorus" in this novel exploring memory and personhood

Theory of society, volume 2

This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and ...

Reducing uncertainty

The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to the spread of disease. In other words, we spend a lot of money to anticipate problems, identify opportunities, and avoid mistakes. A substantial portion of what ...

Wild life

Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation. It also documents the emerging understanding that all forms of wild nature—both in situ (on-site) and ex situ (in captivity)—may need to be managed in perpetuity. Providing a unique window into ...

An impenetrable screen of purest sky

Tree of Life meets In Search of Lost Time in this contemporary tale of loss and the power of story.

Snap matters

In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, more than one in seven Americans received benefits at a cost of nearly $80 billion. Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in...

How a mother weaned her girl from fairy tales

Elegantly simple fairy tales where nonsense is as commonplace as violence from a master of the form.

Eclipsed (revised tcg edition)

A newly revised edition of the highly regarded Tony Award-nominated drama.

The tyranny of choice

A brilliant study on the nature of choice and how limitless freedom can lead to despair.

Off we go into the wild blue yonder

A picturesque story of modern love, old flames, and the long shadow of history.

The slow boil

Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains t...

The yellow heart

Playful and irreverent, filled with improvisational spirit, Neruda delivers a book called "Essential" by Library Journal.

Theory of society, volume 1

This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginni...

Exercise and the mind

How physical activity keeps the mind keen, frees thought and imagination, and fights depression.

Slam school

Exploring the often difficult relations between hip-hop and schooling, Slam School builds a new and surprising argument: the very reasons teachers and administrators might resist the deliberate introduction of hip-hop into the planned curriculum are what make hip-hop so pedagogically vital.

A theory of cognitive dissonance

Doublethink / doubletalk

Over a thousand aphorisms by the philosopher Eva Brann, a National Humanities Medal recipient

Reading colonial japan

By any measure, Japan's modern empire was formidable. The only major non-western colonial power in the 20th century, Japan controlled a vast area of Asia and numerous archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean. The massive extraction of resources and extensive cultural assimilation policies radically imp...

Intimate apparel/fabulation

Intimate Apparel will be the most produced play in America of the 2005-2006 season

A radical worker in tsarist russia

Utopia

Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades. At long last, Torontonians see their city as a place of possibility and potential. Visions of a truly workable, liveable and world-class city are once agai...

The baltimore atrocities

A whodunit without the who, this illustrated compendium of mayhem and misfortune spirals out from an investigation into two disappearances.The Baltimore Atrocities is a mordant, deadpan collection of more than one hundred murders, betrayals, heartbreaks, suicides, and bureaucratic snafus—each wit...

Skirt full of black

A remarkable debut exploring the Korean adoptee experience and expanding linguistic boundaries through lyric collage.

Radical atheism

Radical Atheism challenges the religious appropriation of Derrida's work and offers a compelling new account of his thinking on time and space, life and death, good and evil, self and other.

High conflict people in legal disputes

Make sense of the fears that drive people to file lawsuits, complaints and wreak havoc for legal professionals and everyone.