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The traditional narrative of the Russian Civil War is one of revolution against counterrevolution, Bolshevik Reds... Læs mere
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Argues that today's Chile is a product of both complicity and complacency. Combining historical analysis with deft literary, political,... Læs mere
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How the Nazis co-opted folklore to serve their vision of the German Reich.
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Historians and scholars of Ethiopia have long struggled to understand the paradox of how Africa's most productive agricultural system, which sustained an extraordinary imperial culture over two millennia, can also be home to periodic, gut-wrenching famine and rural poverty.
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For 872 days during World War II, the city of Leningrad endured a crushing blockade at the hands of German forces. Amid the devastation, Olga Berggolts broadcast her poems on the one... Læs mere
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Winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Season of the Second Thought begins in a deep blue mood, longing to find words for what feels beyond saying. Lynn Powell's poems... Læs mere
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From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370,000 young men were conscripted to serve in Augusto Pinochet's regime. Some were... Læs mere
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Reveals and analyzes how Peru's military elite have engaged in a cultural campaign--via memoirs, novels, films, museums--to shift public memory and debate about the nation's recent violent conflict and their part in it.
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Detached from life in Los Angeles and his past in Australia, uncomfortable around other humans, the narrator of this inventive autobiographical novel researches death on the... Læs mere
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I know nothing about death, absolutely nothing,” asserts the narrator of this inventive autobiographical novel. Yet he can't stop thinking about it. Detached from life in Los... Læs mere
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When Nora Griffin, an artist in her mid-thirties, moves from Brooklyn to Provincetown, she isn't looking for trouble. Then charismatic Baby Harris flirts into Nora's life in her red... Læs mere
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Reveals the intellectual complexities and internal struggles of the New Zealand anthropologist whose strident repudiation of Margaret Mead's work set off one of the most ferocious scholarly feuds of the twentieth century.