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Education and the Good Life

There must be in the world many parents who, like the present author, have young children whom th...

Leaving Cheyenne

In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the ...

Love Poems

Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brecht's poetry did not become apparent until lon...

The Pole

Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influe...

Crime and Punishment

So essential is Crime and Punishment (1866) to global literature and to our understanding of Russ...

Paris and Her Cathedrals

Eminent French literature professor R. Howard Bloch has become renowned for his insider tours of ...

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

Hailed as one of 'the best novels ever set in America's fourth largest city' (Douglas Brinkley, N...

Ten Restaurants That Changed America

Combining an historian's rigor with a food enthusiast's palate, Paul Freedman's seminal and highl...

Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

'I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful man...

Ordinary People

Hailed as a 'lyrical and glorious writer; a precise poet of the human heart' (Naomi Alderman), Lo...

The Golden Thread

Thomas Mann

A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been per...