Geishas and samurai, manga and animé come to mind when Japan enters the conversation. While these traditional and modern images about the island na...

As Thoreau used the pond, Romtvedt uses the windmill as a metaphor to take the reader on a philosophical and spiritual search of fundamental truths...

Book & CD. Natan Yonatan is one of Israel's most beloved and popular poets, whose books have sold in the hundreds of thousands. Over two hundre...

This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...

The Sterling Award-winning author of "At the Zenith of the Empire" and "A Teatro Trilogy" returns with a new collection of charming, heart-warming ...

This is the first anthology in English devoted entirely to contemporary Austrian drama written by women. The selection begins with Clara S. (A Musi...

His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep ...

Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, hi...

"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Thos...

Fisher Ames was a leading New England Federalist and sublime critic of Jacobin Democracy and the French Revolution. During the presidency of George...

Since his now famous appearance on the literary stage in 1968 novelist, playwright and poet Peter Handke has remained on the forefront of the liter...

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in w...

This translation of Thomas Bernhard's Der Weltverbesserer makes a contemporary masterpiece available to English language readers for the first time...

Izdryk's Wozzeck is one of the masterpieces of contemporary Ukrainian literature and a cult classic for the Ukrainian 1990s generation. Discerning ...

William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well" and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the American Scholar -- about writing, the arts, New Yor...

Histories are important and histories have a way of travelling. West Indies is one example of a society constructed artificially of imported popula...

When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war mig...

Paola Brusasco’s study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issu...

Yiddish literature and culture take a central position in Jewish literatures. They are shaped to a high degree, not least through migration, by enc...

"I returned to the same respiratory therapist for my annual checkup. I told her that her words to me, 'You look good for your age,' had inspired a ...