A brief and enlightening exploration of one of our greatest thinkers.

More than any other study of Cioran, Marta Petreu's intensive investigation of his life and work ...

Robert Brustein's highly acclaimed adaptation of Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion an...

The response of American workers to the advance of the Industrial Revolution, showing how labor s...

Von Kleist's last work and his masterpiece-a story of guilt, innocence, and moral righteousness i...

Anticommunism was a pervasive force in America during the cold war years, influencing domestic po...

A compact and incisive history of the American economy since 1945, concentrating on the developme...

Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people e...

The poems in William Virgil Davis's Landscape and Journey constitute forays onto actual terrain--...

'Chasing Spies' confirms that professionalism and accountability are part of the FBI's long histo...

Kristie Lindenmeyer shows that the experiences of depression-era children help us understand the ...

These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in e...

One of the most accomplished novelists and screenwriters of our time (What Makes Sammy Run?, On t...

Almost a half-century has passed since the brief presidency of John F. Kennedy illuminated the Am...

Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942-on the face of it not an unc...

In this narrative history from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti, Mr. Idinop...

To the cheers of baseball fans worldwide comes this all-new compendium of challenging quizzes, cr...

Drawn from twenty-five years of the magazine, this abundant collection contains a generous sampli...

This novel's heroine of the 1890s must earn her own living in a society whose power and values ar...

This book chronicles American attitudes toward sex in the twentith century.

This third volume (including the years 1930 1935) of a projected six reinforces Huxley 's stature...

Allows performers, directors, and teachers of all cultures and levels to demystify Shakespeare an...

Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now ap...

In this collection of some thirty essays, Richard Schickel has selected the most provocative and ...

With health care reform a prime objective of the Obama administration, the subject matter of The ...

Lyndon Johnson brought to the presidency a political outlook nurtured by New Deal liberalism and ...

Clown Scenes recaptures the classic clown routines that flourished in the intimacy of the one-rin...

'If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it', Paul Strathern writes, 'he is the last philosopher. In...

With more than five hundred entries, from A to Z, providing information on the most important pla...

Here is the first winner of the New Criterion poetry prize. Petersen has long been an underapprec...

Sigmund Stein was a Jew and also a German with deep roots in rural Germany. When fellow Jews urge...

Malanga describes an emerging new political dynamic: the contest between those who benefit from a...

Far from being a novelty, this book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work...

Geoffrey Blainey's Short History of the World, published by Ivan R. Dee in 2002, rapidly became a...

By far Strindberg's most aggressive work. The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he s...

For decades the most frightening example of bigotry and hatred in America, the Ku Klux Klan has u...

'The cold war', Edward Pessen writes, 'was the most unusual war the United States ever fought'. I...

Since the advent of the New Deal, unbalanced budgets have become an almost permanent feature of A...

A new collection of essays on American writing and criticism about the difference between art and...

Bacevich has drawn together a stimulating collection of arguments on a subject of compelling curr...

Too often the ordeals of participants on both sides of the Vietnam War have been interpreted by o...

Aquinas's life and ideas presented in entertaining and accessible fashion--another title in our h...

Written for the general reader 'in plain though not inelegant English', 'A Theatergoer's Guide' e...

Manhattanites have always had a disdain for the rearview mirror. That's where trends begin, and t...

In Extravagant Expectations Paul Hollander investigates how Americans now pursue romantic partner...

Rollyson's work is an informative and entertaining text for those interested in biography. He cov...

This revised and updated edition contains all of Artaud's key writings on theatre and cinema from...

A classic study of the Middle East in modern times, analyzing British failures in the region duri...