Ukraine’s stubborn resistance to Russian invasion proves that it is possible to mount a successful defense against an enormously larger, better... Læs mere
Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises: from the Russian aggression against Ukraine currently taking place in... Læs mere
Iya Kiva’s poetry, collected in English translation in Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters, stitches memories of the past into Ukraine’s new reality. Her lyric poems... Læs mere
Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200–ca. 600) through a range of literary sources—essays, prefaces, correspondence, religious scriptures, and poetry; including works by Liu Xie and Xie Lingyun.
In Renaissance Italy, the Galenic “wonder drug” theriac became a vehicle for political, pharmaceutical, and commercial power. The State... Læs mere
Paul P. Mariani charts China’s fraught Catholic revival after the Cultural Revolution, as Catholics loyal to Rome clashed with a... Læs mere
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of the... Læs mere
The Buddha’s Path to Awakening recounts the story of the Buddha’s great quest for enlightenment as narrated in the Pali text known as Jatakanidana. It is one of the most... Læs mere
The legendary conversation between the Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist monk Nagasena—known in Pali as the Milindapañha—was first documented over two thousand years ago. The... Læs mere
Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid... Læs mere
The Democratic Marketplace argues that democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. Seeking a path to self-governance,... Læs mere