Offers a collection of essays on a range of themes and figures spanning the period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers.... Læs mere
Offers contemporary readers seventy-three short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous... Læs mere
In Robert Bowie's translation, with annotations and a critical afterword, this collection of Ivan Bunin's work affords readers of English an opportunity for a... Læs mere
Theatricality is often dismissed as a distraction from “real” politics, as when cynical political gestures are derided as “pure” or “only theater.” But the... Læs mere
Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues that a political technology of... Læs mere
Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Hir, Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy, leaves many of our... Læs mere
Sterling A. Brown was renowned for his prolific poetry and scholarship on African American folklife. Edited by the late distinguished poet Michael Harper, this... Læs mere
This adaptation of a 16th-century Chinese comic novel is based on the true story of a 7th-century monk and his fabled 16-year pilgrimage from China to India in search of... Læs mere
Presents a tale of an obsessive writer's love affair late in life as told through the daily journal entries of the writer - a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found materials from newspaper articles, literature, and private correspondence.
Set in a region south of the Carpathian mountains, this novel tells the story of Nikola Suhaj who lives a Robin Hood-like existence. He and his accomplices rob - and often kill -... Læs mere