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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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 bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these twenty-six pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature
The return of migrant birds from their wintering grounds in the tropics is one of the delights of America's spring, as anyone will testify whose heart has leapt in April or May at the first liquid son
In 1769 two ships set out independently in search of a missing continent: a French merchant ship commanded by Jean de Surville, and a small British naval vessel, the Endeavour, commanded by Captain Ja
Everyone knew him then: Bruce Barton was a cultural icon of the mid-twentieth century - a pioneering advertising man, prolific writer, friend of presidents, and author of one of the most popular books
Theodore Dalrymple's brilliant new collection of writings follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier books, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No writer today is more adep
Government funding of the arts in America has never followed an easy course. Whether on a local or national scale, political support for the arts carries with it a sense of exchange—the expectation th
Writes of Passage captures the essence of a universal human experience in literature that has enticed generations of readers: that moment in both fictional and real life when innocence and naivete evo
Writers as various as Rebecca West, Ted Hughes, and Joyce Carol Oates have deplored biographers' tendency to cut up lives and render the bloody data so as to make their subjects seem unhealthy, unwhol
The fundamental paradox of the United States, "the simultaneous story of dynamic economic growth and the prolonged devastation of the African-American experience," was at its core the story of cotton,
How does dissent from administration advisers impact the foreign policy decisions of American presidents? White (history, U. of London, UK) analyzes this question by looking at disputes between Harry
For decades young people in the 18-to-34 age group have been the darlings of advertisers and marketers who yearn for greater sales and the elusive "buzz" of publicity. As a consequence of this focus,
Have you no sense of decency, sir? asked attorney Robert Welch in a climatic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhow
When Eleanor Agnew and her family moved to the Maine woods in 1975, visionaries by the millions were moving back to the land in order to disconnect from the supposedly deleterious influences of modern
With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's
The Holocaust continues to prompt hundreds of historical studies and investigations, with sources ranging from diaries and photographs to remnants of clothing and buildings to being analyzed by histo
Mr. Harpur links together fields as far apart as Greek philosophy and depth psychology, Renaissance magic and tribal ritual, Romantic poetry and the ecstasy of the shaman, to trace how societies over
Carlson, a writer based in Washington state begins with the earliest records and theories about the domestication of cattle, in Mesopotamia, then traces their arrival and fate in the Americas and expl
An extraordinary book based on the experiences of Dr. Norman Fried, psychotherapist and counselor to children who are suffering with or dying of cancer, and their worried families and friends. It is i
Manhattanites have always had a disdain for the rearview mirror. That's where trends begin, and the citizens of Gotham are concerned with the here and now rather than the then and there. Yet Manhatt
Despite beautiful landscapes and bountiful harvests, farming is hard work and always has been. The Great Depression in rural America, which began in the 1920s and lasted until World War II, made it st
The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals, and self-help relationship books reflects the new ways Americans seek close, personal relationships. Exposed to changing and often conflicting
In How to Enjoy Shakespeare, Mr. Fallon explores Shakespeare's familiarity in five sections dealing with language, theme, staging, character, and plot, each abundantly illustrated with episodes and q
Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued disc
The Civil War influenced virtually every aspect of children's lives, and in turn they eagerly incorporated the experience of war into their daily assumptions and activities. In this new contribution
