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Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel weaves together a series of devastating confessions about life in contemporary Arab society Barakat isn't writing about the immigrant. She's writing about the human.Rumaan Alam, 4columns Spare and deep, Voices …
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A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
Yale University Press
A captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberrys life, art, and political activism--one of O Magazine's best books of April 2021 "Hits the mark as a fresh and timely portrait of an influential playwright."Publishers Weekly In this biography of Lorraine Hansberry (19301965), …
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Selected Stories
The first short story collection in the Margellos series, from a master of the genre and an irrepressible critic during Argentinas brutal years of repression Acclaimed for the gemlike perfection of her short stories, Liliana Heker has repeatedly received major …
A single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living …
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Literature as a Way of Life
Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme "Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate."For more than …
A capstone work from a renowned philosopher who explores how Western cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts in order to enter another way of thinking How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of …
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A Lively History
A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourish In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a …
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An Alternate Translation
A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English translation Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores …
The Nobel laureates unfinished science fiction novelavailable in English for the first time ever Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth centurys most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding translation of his …
Acclaimed translator Edith Grossman brings to English-language readers Rojass imaginative vision of Francisco de Goya and the reverberations of his art in Fascist Spain This historical novel by one of Spains most celebrated authors weaves a tale of disparate time …
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A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It
Yale University Press
A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show …
A modern Spanish masterpiece by one of the most extraordinary novelists of our time In Carlos Rojass imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles …
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How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
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A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders scientific justifications of racism. But abolitionists were equally adept at using …
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How Marketers Listen In to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet
Yale University Press
Your voice as biometric data, and how marketers are using it to manipulate you Only three decades ago, it was inconceivable that virtually entire populations would be carrying around wireless phones wherever they went, or that peoples exact locations could …
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Publication of this exacting new translation of Tolstoys great Anna signifies a literary event of the first magnitude Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his …
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"This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers"Davidson has written a work that should lead …
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What It Means for the West
Yale University Press
A leading Ukraine specialist and firsthand witness to the 2014 Kiev Uprising analyzes the worlds newest flashpoint The aftereffects of the February 2014 Uprising in Ukraine are still reverberating around the world. The consequences of the popular rebellion and Russian …
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The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
Perennial wisdom from one of historys most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond wellbravely, boldly, patientlyto what life threw at us. That's what we should be doing now.Ryan Holiday, Reading List …
A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty …
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Currents Shaping the Future of Northeastern Trees
A captivating analysis of the past, present, and future of northeastern forests and the forces that have shaped them"Charlie Canham takes us on an inspiring walk through the past, present, and future of northeastern forests, with the wisdom of a …
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusadersThroughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: …
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Our Myth of Measured Time
Named one of Book Riots Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time: a tour of clocks throughout the centuriesfrom the sandglass to the telomerethat reveals the physical, biological, and social nature of time[A] mind-stretching book. . . . Skilfully written.John Carey, …
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The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258
The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry IIIs ruleProfessor Carpenter is one of Britains foremost medievalists...No one knows more about Henry, and a lifetime of scholarship is here poured out, elegantly and often humorously. This is a fine, …
Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughly up-to-date book, Ronald Hutton reveals the long …
A powerful account of life and loss in the Great War, as told by British soldiers in their letters home This book was inspired by the authors discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed …
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