Rosengarten's memoir begins with his deportation in 1942 to the Belgian concentration camp of Breendonk at the age of 16 and follows his movements through a series of camps until 1945. His compelling
The selected letters of frequent Atlantic Monthly contributor Antin (1881-1949), who is probably best known for her autobiography Promised Land (1912) a treatment of what it was like to be a Europ
Weisman, who has practiced law for 17 years and was formerly the general counsel to the Bennett family, the perpetrators of the subject of this book, offers an insider's view of an interesting story i
Menachem-Mendl is one of Sholem Aleichem's most delightful literary creations, a dreamy optimist who travels to New York and across Eastern Europe in search of an elusive fortune at the approach of W
Himself a Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic priest based in Albuquerque, Zugger details the Soviet campaign against Catholicism among many ethnic groups, several Catholic rites, and devout worshippers. He
Hewitt (architect and writer) explores the thinking and history behind the creation of Craftsman Farms, a group of buildings in New York. Stickley's youth and education, the development of his utopian
Sun'allah Ibrahim has been called the Egyptian Kafka. And no wonder, this wry take on Kafka's The Trial revolves around its narrator's attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of his
Ramazani was born in England in 1932 to English parents, but grew up in Iran and studied ballet in Tehran with a White Russian emigrant who had fled the Russian Revolution during the modernization per
Journalist Spence recalls his summers at an opulent Adirondack Great Camp owned by his patrician Kentucky grandfather. Named Woodwil, after Woodrow Wilson, the camp was one of a number such establishm
Cox, a professor of biology for 41 years, writes a non-technical guide to the ecology of freshwater wetlands in Eastern and Central North America, encompassing plants and fungi, natives and non-native
"We each paint our lives and frame our experiences of the world in a distinctive way for reasons that we cannot always understand," writes Ann Kerr in this book. The watercolors that fill its pages a
Twenty-two selected werewolf tales offer an unprecedented look at the mystique of the werewolf in relation to human behavior and varied aspects of the human psyche.
Reverend Antun Rabbat, a respected Jesuit scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, discovered these extraordinary writings in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. Rabbat immediat
