Round and Round TogetherAmy NathanOn August 28, 1963—the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech—segregation ended finally at Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, after nearly a decade . . . [read more] |
Unreasonable DoubtNorma 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] |
From Berlin to JerusalemGershom ScholemForeword 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 CrisisGershom ScholemIntroduction 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 Other Side of the MirrorBrooke AllenListen to Brooke Allen's interview on The Leonard Lopate Show [link]. & . . . [read more] |
Right Off the BatEvander Lomke & Martin RoweAre 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] |
Strange RelationRachel 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] |
Desert IslandsWalter de la MareForeword by Michael McKeon"With its humor and its fancy and its wistfulness, [Desert Islands] is such a fountain of youth as no Ponce de Leon ever discovered." —New York Times &qu . . . [read more] |
The Logos of HeraclitusEva BrannIn 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] |
Homage to AmericansEva BrannIn Homage to Americans, her latest collection of essays and lectures, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of our American ways. In "Mile-High Meditations," her fl . . . [read more] |
The Flight of IkarosKevin 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 MoonlightW. Stanley MossAfterword 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] |
FlotsamJohn Stewart"John Stewart is a rare combination: an artist, an adventurer, a survivor of a prison camp, a great photographer and a rambunctious, rollicking prose writer. He's had marvelous, unlikely exper . . . [read more] |
The Tables of the LawThomas MannNewly 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] |
ZiftVladislav TodorovTranslated from the Bulgarian by Joseph Benatov"Pulp fiction by a historian of ideas." —Literary Weekly (Sofia) "Tongue flambé." —Kultura December 21, 1963: Having ser . . . [read more] |
Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis BorgesFernando SorrentinoTranslated from the Spanish by Clark M. ZlotchewThese 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] |
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