Harvard University Press
Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.
Read MoreWhy didn’t a legal mind as brilliant as Richard Posner’s get to the Supreme Court? One suspects his candor and bluntness.
Read MoreFor a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.
Read MoreTwo books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.
Read MoreWhy did rock and roll become white? Music critic Jack Hamilton’s extraordinary new book provides a challenging answer.
Read MoreThe Annotated Poe invites readers to take a fresh look at Edgar Allan Poe and his far-ranging artistic legacy.
Read MoreOtto Dov Kulka’s exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it “the greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi.”
Read MoreEditor Bharat Tandon guides us expertly through “Emma,” stopping along the way to augment the text by clarifying usages, concepts, and references that may stump the 21st-century reader.
Read MoreThis invaluable addition to the Austen literature offers two for the price of one: a beautifully designed and printed edition of the novel many consider her best and a parallel critical commentary that deepens our understanding and opens up a rich, textured view of her world and time.
Read MoreEditor Nicholas Frankel is right to argue that familiarity with Oscar Wilde’s original manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray deepens its vision, suggesting that the 1891 novel is a far less morally reassuring tale than readers have thought. The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde. Edited by Nicholas Frankel.…
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