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Citizens of Beauty
Now available in English for the first time, translated by the poet Jack Hirschman, this beautiful collection of poems by the Algerian poet Jean Sénac (1926–1973) was originally …
Manufacture of Consent
The second Red Scare was a charade orchestrated by a tyrant with the express goal of undermining the New Deal—so argues Stephen M. Underhill in this hard-hitting analysis of …
Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre
The documentary biography of Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, an officer in the Troupes de la Marine, who served throughout New France, sheds new light on the business activity …
Edge of Empire
Few places were as important in the seventeenth-century European colonial New World as the pays d'en haut. This term means "upper country" and refers to the western Great Lakes …
On the Eve of the Conquest
In 1754, Charles de Raymond, chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis and a captain in the Troupes de la Marine wrote a bold, candid, and revealing expose; on the …
Aucassin and Nicolette
A comic masterpiece of medieval French literature, Aucassin and Nicolette is categorized by its anonymous author as a “chantefable”, or “song-story”, and is the only known work of …
Evolution of Desire
René Girard (1923–2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era - a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human …
Resurrection from the Underground
In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky’s work, René Girard explores the implications of the Russian author’s “underground,” a site of isolation, …
The Manufacture of Consent
The second Red Scare was a charade orchestrated by a tyrant with the express goal of undermining the New Deal, so argues Stephen M. Underhill in this hard-hitting analysis of J. …
Eight Mile High
In these linked stories, the constants are the places—from Eight Mile High, the local high school, to Eight Miles High, the local bar; from The Clock, a restaurant that never …