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Un professore di Harvard si innamora di una studentessa, e abbandona per lei la rassicurante monotonia di una vita già tracciata. Ma il mare aperto del nuovo amore lo porta a sperimentare, con l'ebbrezza della felicità, una inattesa nostalgia, un cocente senso di perdita. Ritratto appuntito di un uomo e del suo mondo (quello sofisticato, ironico, cerebrale degli intellettuali di Harvard), "Le figlie degli altri" riporta in scena l'America anco...

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For decades, Richard Stern has been acclaimed as one of the American masters of the short story. Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories brings together for the first time forty-nine of Stern's best short works and novellas-from "Dr. Cahn's Visit, " which The New Republic praised as "the very best very short story in the English language, " to classics like "Teeth" and "Wanderers." This collection demonstrates Stern's astonishing ability to portra...

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A group of Americans in Venice encounter an Ezra-Pound-like sculptor.

Stern's brilliantly funny look at modern journalism and its flawed practitioners.

The classic novel of a middle-aged man's affair with a worldly younger woman.

What Is What Was, " Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany, " is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction. Stories, such as the already well-known "My Ex, the Moral Philosopher, " appear among portraits (of the sort Hugh Kenner praised as "almost the invention of a new genre"): Auden, Pound, Ellison, Terkel, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, Walter Benjamin (in both essay and story), Jung and Freud, Hannah Arendt and Marti...

Investigates how the life of Jesus as shown on the screen reflects the culture of the time. The movies discussed range from silent to contemporary films, and from traditional to controversial portrayals. For both individual and group use. Includes movie rental information.

Ez Keneret and Wendell Spear are Hollywood veterans who have committed the only sin in the movie business: they've grown old. Having been cast aside by younger producers, directors, writers, reviewers, actors, and even their own families, the two friends must confront both their obsolescence and the harsh reality that the art they appreciate (and profit from) is really just a business powered by money and celebrity. Spear, fading in the Malibu...

With a Foreword by Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr

Cy Riemer-fifty-ish, divorced and father of four-surveys the dispersal of his family with a mixture of anxiety, humor, sadness, and pride.

Dick Stern reveals the tried-and-true secrets of his proven technique for building relationships and winning cooperation. Best of all it's simple and it works for anyone who wants to win through cooperative and mutually rewarding relationships!