Overview :Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: th... Read More
Overview :Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement i... Read More
Overview :In Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of emergency politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethica... Read More
Overview : Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers... Read More
Overview :During his impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon boasted, "I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes sev... Read More
Overview :A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare's beautiful young manShakespeare's sonnets are indisputably the most enigmatic and enduri... Read More
Overview :Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthfu... Read More