Creative new translations of nine of the author's most significant stories and novellas, including "Dream Story," which the Stanley Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut was based on, captures his extraordinar
Jerry Thompson explores the many-leveled relationship between seeing and thinking. Truth and Photography reproduces in duotone twenty-three photographs - some as well known as any the medium has prod
Atomic and biological warfare have already destroyed most of the earth when, in the twenty-second century, an expedition is sent forth from New Zealand to explore North America
The poems in William Virgil Davis's Landscape and Journey constitute forays onto actual terrain—either close to home in Texas or farther off in Wales—as well as exploring what the poet Guy Davenport o
Britain's Finest Hour revealed as a muddle of ineptitude and propaganda. Thoroughly researched and well written, Clive Ponting's book stands just about every preconceived notion concerning Britain's
Although it has been a global phenomenon for decades before recent acts of massive violence, anti-Americanism has prompted few serious studies in English. This collection of original reports and obse
Focusing on a neglected aspect of the Civil War’s social history, Mr. Logue describes the character and experience of its soldiers, North and South, and how their postwar lives affected the history of
Here is the first winner of the New Criterion poetry prize. “Petersen has long been an underappreciated master of formal verse. He is a perfectionist, willing to spend actual years polishing and repol
Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist’s experience into a work of art. “The best possible introd
In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive documentation to bear in challenging the conventional view of
A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. The results of this experiment separating marriage from childrearing are in, and they are bad news for children an
Debate continues over whether jurists should follow the original intentions of the Founding Fathers when they drafted the Constitution or whether the Constitution is a "living document," subject to in
In this narrative analysis, Mr. Andrew examines the underlying ideas and principal objectives of the most ambitious and controversial American reform effort since the New Deal. “An acute examination.”
Andrew Schlesinger tells the fascinating story of Harvard College as an American institution. He examines the important actions and decisions of its leadership from Puritan times to the present.
John Rossi offers not only an expert overview of baseball over the past 175 years; he shows how the game has reflected and contributed to changes in American society over time. The National Game chron
A probing analysis of the decision-making process in network news organizations. Shows how internal corporate policy and budget requirements shape the direction of television news coverage, and demons
The basis of the Academy Award–winning film—essentially the story of a young man growing up in a Rotterdam slum and making good by pluck and intelligence, but all of his success comes out of the desir
In this narrative history from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti, Mr. Idinopulos describes the extraordinary transformation of modern Palestine. “Elegant, readable...refreshingly
Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi regime systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of children and adults with disabilities as part of its "euthanasia" programs. These procedures were designed to eli
Robert Brustein's new book is more than a collection of his writings on theatre. It also functions as a precise barometer of contemporary society, measuring the pressures of our present-day cultural
Here is a practical introduction to one of the most complex jobs in theatre. Linda Apperson clearly and concisely leads the reader through the procedures and responsibilities of stage management, from
An intimate personal and political history of Lyndon Johnson's frustration with the Kennedy mystique, based on exhaustive new research. Solidly researched, well written, carefully analyzed...a major c
To many intellectuals of the twentieth century, supporting communism seemed to be a good idea. A very good idea, in fact. Yet as the century wore on and the attractive theory proved to be repressive i
With more than 500 entries, from A to Z, providing information on the most important plays and playwrights from ancient times to the present day, The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights is a c
A classic study of the Middle East in modern times, analyzing British failures in the region during the zenith of the empire's power and influence. Mr. Kedourie attributes much of Britain's faulty and
Ilya Gaiduk's The Great Confrontation offers a comparative approach to the long and complex history of relations between Europe and Islam, from the early seventh century to the present day. The book d
Books about Jane Addams—founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history—come and go, but Allen Davis's account of her life,
Was J. Edgar Hoover a homosexual? And did organized-crime leaders, knowing this, blackmail the FBI director into leaving them alone? These charges won almost instant popular acceptance when they were
Analyzing the struggle by evangelical Protestants for the mind and soul of America in the decades before the Civil War, Johnson lucidly explores the nature of the evangelical message, the conflict of
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews. Yet by the time Roosevelt died in office, six million European Jews had been murdered by the Nazis while neither FDR nor American Jews
Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter
It was a long way from the gritty streets of Springfield Avenue on Chicago's West Side, and hawking stockings in the old Maxwell Street marketplace, to a position as sports columnist and feature write
One of the world’s leading children’s dramatists provides a practical handbook of the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences of children. "A marvelous contribution to the world of You
Based on up-to-date scholarship and his own research in newly released documents, White assesses the causes and consequences of the crisis in addition to providing a day-by-day narrative of the confro
A masterful account of Lyndon Johnson and America’s fall into Vietnam by one of our finest historians, filled with fresh interpretations, deft portraits, and new perspectives. “Absolutely terrific...s
Worringer's classic study argues that in historical periods of anxiety and uncertainty, man seeks to abstract objects from their unpredictable state and transform them into absolute, transcendental fo
Looks at immigrant experiences with American nativism and xenophobia during the period, when more than 20 million immigrants came the US. Examines the conditions of immigrants, African Americans, and
Lyndon Johnson brought to the presidency a political outlook nurtured by New Deal liberalism and the idea of government intervention for the public good. In his desire to make that idea work at home
In the heyday of the American avant-garde and Greenwich Village bohemianism, in the early years of the twentieth century, Floyd Dell was one of the scene's brightest lights. "The prose laureate of Gre
This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr. Dalrympl
