Archpriest Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar.
The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova... Læs mere
In the chaos of early 199s Russia, a paralyzed veteran’s wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep... Læs mere
Revisiting Marx’s seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.
Learning to Kneel locates noh drama’s influence on American and European writers, dancers, and composers. Carrie J. Preston’s work has been... Læs mere
Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and... Læs mere
Contemporary political theorists from Europe and North America open an overdue debate on the ties between politics and utopianism.
An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.
Tayeb El-Hibri draws on medieval Islamic chronicles to remap the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy, offering an... Læs mere
An anthology of modern Arabic fictional arts, it features more than one hundred and forty writers from Oman to Mauritania. It features selections range from the work of... Læs mere
With poems in English by over one hundred female poets -- American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish,... Læs mere