One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new frien
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief pr
Freud’s discovery of the Oedipus complex has had a tumultuous fate in the field of psychology in the United States. At first considered the kernel of psychoanalysis, it progressively lost its luster
“The story is the journey, not the destination. Or so the philosopher’s say. But this is my story, and it has a beginning, a middle, and an end….”The Open Door
Written with his typical witty and delicate touch, Christian Oster's new novel pokes fun at the postmodern male's overrated sensitivity.Oster’s stories are simple—at least if we mean stories that can
PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALISTA fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 19th-century slave woman in South Africa.Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed—and never wit
"One of the most important novels of contemporary Austrian literature."—Neue Zürcher ZeitungMax Berman, a successful but rootless New York restoration architect, socialite, and ladies' man,
The definitive work on Lacan's theory of the feminine.With exquisite prose and penetrating insights, Colette Soler shares her theoretical and clinical expertise in this vibrant new text. She spins ou
"Skillful and compassionate" (Newsweek), a groundbreaking study on the human cost of war. Nominated for the National Book Award. With a new preface from the author on the war in Iraq. In Home from th
Confusion of Tongues describes the genesis of Freud's clinical anthropology. A careful reading of Freud's early texts and letters to Fliess illustrates how Freud abandons his seduction theory of the n
Stories From the City of God collects legendary filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966. In these pieces, we see the machinations of the creative mind in consid
A critical appraisal of the politics of Jewish identity after the Holocaust and a passionate memoir by an Israeli dissenter.in 1984, Daniel Cil Brecher, then a reservist in the Education Corps of the
"Tigor is an adventure novel, the minute details of which read real to the extremeóthey appear as though they had been seen, touched, smelled, and tasted by the author himself. The reading offers
