Overview :January 1719. A man sits at a table, writing. Nearly sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and mired in political controversy and legal ... Read More
Overview :Lucie Duff Gordon was a world apart from her Victorian counterparts. An intellectual, traveller, writer and progressive social commentator, ... Read More
Overview :Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling... Read More
Overview :Compares today's same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of black people in the mid-nineteenth century. The staggering string of victo... Read More
Overview :Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton--a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs--anthropologist Kathe... Read More
Overview :"A fine retelling of the Bront s' story . . . It does much to throw light on the achievement of one of the greatest geniuses of nineteenth-c... Read More
Overview :From tribal religious rituals to the Playboy mansion, and from ancient Rome to Burning Man, Plays Well in Groups explores the phenomenon of ... Read More
Overview :The Lonely Voice and Other Short Stories by Frank O'Connor, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Isaac Babel,... Read More
Overview :A non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century. Indira Gandhi's life, from her birth in 1... Read More
Overview :Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbari... Read More