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Harvard University Press

Book Review: Oscar Wilde Fights the Dying of the Light

Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years, Tom Filbin

Book Review: Richard A. Posner — A Rare Judge Who Tells Us How He Really Feels

Why didn’t a legal mind as brilliant as Richard Posner’s get to the Supreme Court? One suspects his candor and bluntness.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Antonin Scalia, Harvard University Press, Richard A. Posner, Supreme Court, The Federal Judiciary: Strengths and Weaknesses, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: Polish Poet Czesław Miłosz — Master of the Telling Detail

For a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A Biography, Andrzej Franaszek, Czesław Miłosz. Polish Literature, Harvard University Press, Miłosz

Book Review: “The Menorah” and “The Book of Aron”

Two books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Holocaust, Jim Shepard, knopf, Menorah, Stephen Fine, The Book of Aron, The Menorah From the Bible to Modern Israel

Book Review: “Just Around Midnight” — A Revelatory Look at Race and 1960s Rock and Roll

Why did rock and roll become white? Music critic Jack Hamilton’s extraordinary new book provides a challenging answer.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight, race, Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, Rock-and-Roll

Book Interview: Edgar Allan Poe — America’s Maestro of Suffering

The Annotated Poe invites readers to take a fresh look at Edgar Allan Poe and his far-ranging artistic legacy.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, Harvard University Press, Kevin J. Hayes, Matt Hanson, The Annotated Poe, William Giraldi

Book Review: “Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death” — A New Language for Living with Auschwitz

Otto 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.”

By: Susan de Sola Rodstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Auschwitz, Harvard University Press, Holocaust, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, Otto Dov Kulka, Personal Memoir, Ralph Mandel, Reflections on Memory and Imagination, Susan de Sola Rodstein

Book Review: Jane Austen’s “Emma” — Aptly Annotated

Editor 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.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Bharat Tandon, Emma, Emma: An Annotated Edition, Harvard University Press, Jane Austen

Book Review: Annotating Jane — An Illuminating New Edition of Austen’s Persuasion

This 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.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Harvard University Press, Jane Austen, Persuasion: An Annotated Edition, Robert Morrison

Book Review — A Wilde Child Restored: Dorian Gray Uncensored

Editor 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. […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books Tagged: fiction, Harvard University Press, homosexuality, Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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