April 19, 2023
Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition is a stunning collection that showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition. Accurately and sensitively… READ MORE
April 13, 2023
Edna St. Vincent Millay— PARIS, 1920 Jan. 29, 1920 Twenty-five days without a decent cup of coffee,—twenty-five days, three hours & forty-six minutes, to be exact,—an honest calculation, too, allowing… READ MORE
April 12, 2023
Wassily Kandinsky’s Sounds (Klänge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist’s book. Its “sound poems” are alternately narrative and expressive, witty and simple… READ MORE
April 6, 2023
Mass for Shut-Ins is the 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds. During… READ MORE
March 10, 2023
Bart D. Ehrman— Few literary genres facilitate deeper reflection on the profundities of life than tours of the realms of the dead. It is no accident that they lie at… READ MORE
February 24, 2023
Tom Higham— The role of drastically variable and changing climates in the story of human evolution is also evident. As we witness first-hand the potential for climate disaster in our… READ MORE
February 22, 2023
Irwin F. Gellman— Kennedy and Nixon ran one of the closest elections in American history. While JFK had an enormous margin in Democratic registration, the vote for each was almost… READ MORE
February 17, 2023
Joel E. Dimsdale— Twenty-first century brainwashing researchers will also exploit the capabilities of a very different area—social media. Recall how governments seized upon pharmaceutical developments in obstetrics and used those… READ MORE
February 14, 2023
Karl Kraus— EPILOGUE The Final Night Battlefield. Craters. Smoke clouds. Starless night. The horizon is a wall of flames. Corpses. Dying soldiers. Men and women in gas masks appear. A… READ MORE
February 7, 2023
Richard Sieburth— The title of this never-to-be-finished book, My Heart Laid Bare, was also drawn from one of Poeʼs “Marginalia,” in which the author of the “Tell-Tale Heart” had thrown… READ MORE
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