THE STORY: The place is a remote cabin in the wilds of Alaska. As a blizzard rages outside, a lonely figure, Henry Harry, lies sleeping under a heap of blankets. Suddenly, he is awakened by the insistent knocking of an unexpected visitor--who turns
Treating readers to a memorable cast of characters and "fascinating anecdotes" (New York Review of Books), Dolin shows how the story of the nation, from a regional backwater colony to global industrial power, can be illustrated through its ...
Explores the avant-garde history of twentieth-century Europe through the lifestyle and music of the Sex Pistols
From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes this masterful novel that ventures to answer challenging questions of consciousness and science, and what it means to be human.
The stories he tells range widely, stretching from disability stereotypes to weight loss surgery, gender transition to skin lightening creams.
Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka concludes with a reconstruction and critique of the approaches to Kafka by such major critics as Adorno, Gilman, and Deleuze and Guattari.
In Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, Bernstein recalls the origins of his storied journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era, the swelling civil rights movement, and a slew of grisly crimes.
The result of this was the formulation of a new strategy to deal with the debt crisis: the Baker Plan, named after the new U.S. treasury secretary James Baker and unveiled in October of that year at the annual meetings of the IMF and ...
... Rachel, 127 Foster, Stephen S., 28, 75–76 “Fourteen Points” speech, 244, 250 Fourteenth Amendment, 54–57, 59, 61, 71, 85, 98, 101, 102, 104, 159, 252 proposed woman suffrage language, 56–57, 85 Fowler, Charles, 107 France, 189, 241, ...