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The Dacha Husband - A Novel
In addition to offering fresh editions of well-known works, Northwestern World Classics will also reintroduce to a new generation "lost...
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DAI (enough) - A Play
Set in a Tel Aviv café in the moments before a suicide bomber enters, Iris Bahr’s 2008 Lucille Lortel Award–winning DAI (enough) courageously...
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Dance with Snakes
“The acid humour of Horacio Castellanos Moya, resembling that of a Buster Keaton movie or a time-bomb, threatens the hormonal stability of...
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Daniil Kharms - Writing and the Event
The "texts" of Russian artist and thinker Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) were so many and varied and often unique (narrative, dramatic,...
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The Sublime Artist’s Studio
In his youth, Vladimir Nabokov aspired to become a landscape artist. Even though he eventually realized that his true vocation was literature, his...
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Swan’s Way
Rarely has anyone taken Swann's Way down a stranger path, and never with such intriguing results. What begins as a meditation on the fictional...
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All This Belongs to Me: A Novel
Petra Hulová became an overnight sensation when All This Belongs to Me was originally published in Czech in 2002, when the author was just twenty...
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True Stories of False Confessions
Editors Rob Warden and Steven Drizin—leaders in the field of wrongful convictions—have gathered articles about some of the most critical accounts...
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A Tempered Wind - An Autobiography
Poet Karen Gershon (1923–1993) opens A Tempered Wind, the sequel to volume 1 of her autobiography A Lesser Child, in 1943. It begins tragically...
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Gogol’s Artistry
When one great author engages another, as Andrei Bely so brilliantly does in Gogol’s Artistry, the result is inevitably a telling portrait of both...
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Reexamining Socrates in the Apology
An oracle was reported to have said, "No one is wiser than Socrates." And in fact it was Socrates’ life’s work to interpret these...
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American Photojournalism
The traditional approach to studying American photojournalism explains the what and who of photojournalism — what events and developments occurred,...
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Three Plays
Bringing together the rich characters and wry humor of a celebrated Texas scribe, this book collects three of Foote's most recognized plays. In...
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Isaac Rosenberg - The Making of a Great War Poet
"Wilson is excellent on Rosenberg's life and her comments on his poems are always grounded." -- Frances Spalding, Daily...
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The Retrieval of the Beautiful
In this elegant new study Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetics. Although...
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It Will Return - Poems
In It Will Return, her most recent volume of poems, Julia Hartwig is in dialogue with other great artists—Keats, Rimbaud, Milosz, Beethoven, Ravel,...
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The Unmentionables - A Play
Set in western equitorial Africa on the estate of a wealthy American businessman, The Unmentionables opens with a pugnacious monologue warning the...
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Embodiments
How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a...
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Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature
In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question of nature is almost entirely forgotten—obscured in part by a myopic focus on solving...
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The Writer in Petrograd and the House of Arts
Founded by Maksim Gorky and Kornei Chukovsky in 1919 and disbanded in 1922, the Petrograd House of Arts occupied a crucial moment in Russia’s...
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The Journals - Volume 2: 1966-1990
John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, The Collector, but his labor on what may be his greatest...
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature's sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new...
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Embodiments
How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a...
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