TV segment with Amy Nathan, 12/15/2011, Girl on Merry-Go-Round Became Symbol of Civil Rights Struggle

"What History Can Teach the Occupiers: A Review of Round & Round Together" at The Pirate Tree

Strange Relation reviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Times Literary Supplement,
and House of the Seven Tails.

Read "Tacking; or, a Zigzag Course Toward a Point" by Paul Dry

In the New York Review of Books, Malise Ruthven reviews The Other Side of the Mirror and writes
about the state of Syria today. [link]

Listen to Brooke Allen's interview on The Leonard Lopate Show [link].

"A well-written, well-researched, and engaging introduction to contemporary Syria."
—from Library Journal's starred review of The Other Side of the Mirror by Brooke Allen

Small Press Spotlight: Rachel Hadas on Critical Mass, the blog of the National Critics Circle Board of Directors

A review of Zift on Three Percent. [link].

Listen to an interview with Rachel Hadas, author of Strange Relation, on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

The Los Angeles Times reviews Zift, calling it "a compelling thriller." [link].
Also see "That Tar-Black Taste: An Interview with Vladislav Todorov" at Fiction Writers Review.

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Round and Round Together

Amy Nathan

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On August 28, 1963—the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech—segregation ended . . . [read more]

Unreasonable Doubt

Norma Thompson

"Part detective story, part social commentary, part intellectual autobiography, part philosophical analysis, this is a jury book unlike any other."—Anthony Kronman, Sterling Profess . . . [read more]

The Logos of Heraclitus

Eva Brann

In his Vatican fresco The School of Athens, Raphael portrays the great thinkers and teachers of the ages talking and listening to one another. His Heraclitus, however, is a lone thinker st . . . [read more]

The Other Side of the Mirror

Brooke Allen

Listen to Brooke Allen's interview on The Leonard Lopate Show [link].

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Strange Relation

Rachel Hadas

"[A] thoughtful and lucid tale of love, companionship, and heartbreaking illness." —Lydia Davis

In 2004 Rachel Hadas's husband, George Edwards, a composer and professor of mus . . . [read more]

Right Off the Bat

Evander Lomke & Martin Rowe

Are baseball and cricket two sports divided by a common language? Both employ bats, balls, and innings. Fans of both love statistics, revel in nostalgia, and use baffling jargon. In Right Off t . . . [read more]

The Flight of Ikaros

Kevin Andrews

"One of the great and lasting books about Greece." —Patrick Leigh Fermor

In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a fellowship to study medieval fortres . . . [read more]

Ill Met By Moonlight

W. Stanley Moss

Afterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor

"This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is read." —San Francisco Chronicle . . . [read more]

From Berlin to Jerusalem

Gershom Scholem

Foreword by Moshe Idel

"An extraordinary life—one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance." —Robert Coles

From Berlin to Jerusalem portrays the dual dramas of . . . [read more]

On Jews and Judaism in Crisis

Gershom Scholem

Introduction by Werner Dannhauser

"These essays, dealing as they do with modern Jewish history, literature, and religion, sustain a continuity of conviction that cannot help but inspire a new generation of Jewish intellectual . . . [read more]

The Tables of the Law

Thomas Mann

Newly translated from the German by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann. Afterword by Michael Wood.

"Beautiful . . . one of the best short novels he has written." —New York Times Book Review

"Can rank with the best of Mann's writing" —Boston . . . [read more]

Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

Fernando Sorrentino

Translated from the Spanish by Clark M. Zlotchew

These wide-ranging conversations have an open and intimate tone, giving readers a uniquely personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.

Interv . . . [read more]