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Talking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our troubled society. Drawing on her lifelong immersion in literature and culture and her decades of experience as a teacher and critic, Cohen argues that we learn to conv...

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An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversationTalking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our troubled society. Drawing on her lifelong immersion in literature and culture and her d...

Cohen argues that Hitchcock's films reflect his Victorian legacy and serve as a map for ideological trends.

In this short and illuminating book, Paula Marantz Cohen shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways.

In this short and illuminating book, Paula Marantz Cohen shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways.

An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy

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Suzanne Davis lounges around her tiny New York City apartment in her pyjamas, writing press releases for the International Association of Air-Conditioning Engineers, listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her. As her 35th birthday looms, Suzanne embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, quest -- to find Mr Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life. Her quest plunges us int...

From the bestselling author of "Jane Austen in Boca, "“, another witty tale that combines classic literature with contemporary social comedy.”, ---"Hartford Courant" Carla Goodman’, s life in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is a little bit stressful these days. Her doctor husband is frazzled, her son’, s teachers say he needs Ritalin, and she’, s in the throes of planning her daughter’, s bat mitzvah. But it’, s he...

High school begins, and to Beatrice Bunson nothing is the same, not even her best friend, Nan. The "new" Nan doesn't hang out with Bea after school, instead she's running for Student Council and going to parties and avoiding Bea at lunchtime. The boys who were gross in middle school have become surprisingly polite, while the "cool" kids are still a mystery. Bea's older sister, meanwhile, acts like she's living in a soap opera. On the bright si...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife. In Cohen's novel, a witty twist on "Pride and Prejudice, " the "village" is Boca Raton, Florida, and eligible men, especially ones in possession of a good fortune and country club privileges, are scarce.