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A Brief History of Equality
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, …
The Lineage of the Raghus
A new English translation of Raghuva?sa by the celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidasa, who inspired such modern writers as Goethe and Tagore.For a millennium and a half, Kalidasa’s …
The Sentinel State
Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human …
A Great Disorder
As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an …
The Kannada Mahabharata
The classic Kannada version of the Mahabharata, a jewel of world literature, translated into English.The Mahabharata, a cornerstone of ancient Indian literature, recounts the …
God at Play
The oldest extant Marathi work, a medieval chronicle of Chakradhar’s divine life on earth, in a new English translation.God at Play, or Li?acaritra, is a remarkable biography of …
An Introduction to Literary Chinese
The second edition of An Introduction to Literary Chinese incorporates recent developments in linguistics and has been expanded to include a lesson on Buddhist texts. Beginning …
Dr. Leonardo’s Journey to Sloboda Switzerland with His Future Lover, the Beautiful Alcesta
Italian doctor Leonardo Pazzi and Alcesta, his “future lover,” travel through the picturesque, hilly region of Sloboda, near Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine. They experience a series …
Cassandra
Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, is cursed with the gift of true prophecies that are not believed by anyone. She foretells the city’s fall should Paris bring Helen as …
The Forest Song
The Forest Song represents the crowning achievement of Lesia Ukrainka’s mature period and is a uniquely powerful poetic text. A play in three acts, it seemingly breaks with her …
Navigating Narratives
Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian Japan through a close reading of one of …