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A collection of illuminating observations on life and art, from an acclaimed Swiss modernist “[Tess Lewis’s] translation is worthy of her willfully demanding subject, leaping …
Det påstås att ungefär 14 500 krig har utkämpats sedan år 3 500 f.Kr. Mänskligheten har bara erfarit 300 år av fred på jorden. Under 1900-talet dödades fler människor i krig än …
Adaptation was central to André Bazin’s lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of …
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them …
Essays on Politics and Society brings together the most significant writings on the topic by the acclaimed Victorian historian, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. This …
An authoritative selection of the writings of one of the most important early American writers “A brilliant collection that reveals the extraordinary range of Cotton Mather’s …
Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction …
"A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that it’s never too late."—New York Times?Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a …
Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, …
A funny, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive recent past from one of our finest cultural critics "A one-of-a-kind guide to rock music’s resonance in every …