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In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years: Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deli...

This issue includes: reporting and photography from the front lines of the war in Afghanistan by Philip Robertson, stories of war by Josip Novakovich and Douglas Unger, stories from the home front by Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Henkin and Margaret McMullan, and poetry from Julianna Baggott.

The first book of poetry by Matthias Gèoritz to be available in English, in a translation by a renowned writer. Very few books of poetry by contemporary German writers are available to English-speaking readers. In Colonies of Paradise, acclaimed poet and translator Mary Jo Bang introduces the poems of novelist, poet, and translator Matthias Gèoritz, one of the most exciting German writers publishing today. The poems in this book, which origina...

The surreal and the familiar clash in these stories, to visceral effect. The collection is eerie, hilarious, moving, and down-to-earth, even as its characters defy the rules--sometimes in the ways we wish we could.

Senegalese Stagecraft explores the theatrical stage in Senegal as a site of poetic expression, political activism, and community engagement. This book addresses a gap in scholarship about performance, theater, and popular culture in Senegal and West Africa.

This book brings the poet and philosopher Novalis into dialogue with the work of Martin Heidegger, demonstrating that both should be understood principally as thinkers of relation.

An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature examines literary challenges to Israel's national narratives. Many prominent Israeli fiction writers use the prism of suicide to confront the centrality of the army, the mythology of the "new Jew, " the vision of Tel Aviv as the first Israeli city, and the very process by which a nation's history is constructed.

Word Play focuses on the intertwined fates of children's literature and underground poetry throughout the Soviet period. Five case studies feature experimental poets whose unpublished work was not written for children but featured a childlike lyric speaker, diction, form, and humor.

Collected here are the written traces of courses on the concepts of nature given by Maurice Merieau-Ponty at the College de France in the 1950s--notes that provide a window on the thinking of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In two courses distilled by a student and in a third composed of Merieau-Ponty's own notes, the ideas that animated the philosopher's lectures and that informed his later publications emer...

The Beast includes Jóusè d'Arbaud's 1926 masterpiece "The Beast of Vacarés"--a haunting parable about a solitary bull-herder who stumbles upon a starving creature who is half-man, half-goat--and three other tales from the Camargue delta region in southern France.

Written as a series of rogue web posts, Instagram essays, rejected Yelp reviews, and SmugMug streams-of-consciousness that merge confession with art criticism, Art Is Everything is the story of an artist whose world implodes--just as she has a breakthrough.

Geographies of Flight explores themes of placement and mobility in the work of Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler"--

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book is an engaging introduction to dragonflies for a general reader, incorporating facts, conservation information, illustrations, and the author's personal stories.

Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity reads the literary works of the Viennese satirist, journalist, and playwright Karl Kraus (1874-1936) alongside Søren Kierkegaard, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno.

This book is the stage version of E. Patrick Johnson's Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South--An Oral History, a groundbreaking text for the fields of black studies, queer studies, and Southern oral history and ethnography.

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This collection of eleven philosophical essays addresses current trends in materialist philosophy dealing with subject-object relations, amounting to a polemical corrective that insists on the organizing role of the subject within materialist thought.

Mother Tongue is the third collection of poems by Zimbabwean poet and writer Tsitsi Ella Jaji, whose previous work includes the poetry collections Beating the Graves and Carnaval and the book Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity.