Books
In this deeply enlightening study, Anthony Alan Shelton aims to set the record straight about how mask culture developed in Mexico as well as in Andean cultures.
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The essays in this excellent volume consistently show that nostalgia is about something, and it matters.
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks with poet and performer Kyle Ducayan, executive director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, about the purpose of poetry.
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Put bluntly, Mathematics for Human Flourishing is quite possibly the most profound meditation on mathematics I have read.
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In Maria Baranda’s poetry there is the constant oscillation between beauty and ugliness, elegance and terror, the empowering journey and the overwhelming nightmare.
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Russian poet Osip Mandelstam’s “ancient language” is rendered into real contemporary poetry in English that succeeds in speaking eloquently to the inner eye and ear.
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As an example of historical revisionism, The Commune proffers a valuable representation of the cultural, political, and class dynamics that animated the Women’s Liberation Movement.
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Like Blinky in Pac-Man, the narrator of this provocative but often frustrating and diffuse book gobbles up everything.
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Her poems are sassy.
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Author Appreciation: Historian Stephen B. Oates
No writer, historian, or filmmaker ever took me nearly as close to Abraham Lincoln the man as did Stephen B. Oates. I have always been indebted to him for that.
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