One of the great utopian novels of the early modern period.

The eminent death-of-God theologian traces his lifelong search for a theory that is contemporary yet biblical.

The first book-length biography of Margaret Haley (1861–1939) focuses on her political vision, her activities as a public school activist, and her life as a charismatic woman leader.

A collection of sixty short stories by women writers from across the Arab world.

Offers the most comprehensive collection of Basho's prose available, beautifully translated into English.

A boy's world is shattered by the Holocaust.

A son’s coming to terms with his mother’s decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children.

A wonderful new translation of the poetry of Basho—Zen monk, poet of nature, and master of the haiku form.

A new translation of Sand's most popular novella, known for its brevity, liveliness, and exemplary storytelling, together with two of Sand's most admired short stories.

The first comprehensive overview of the life and thought of the American philosopher Ken Wilber.

A fascinating look at how some of the world's most eminent scholars conceive of their own relationship with writing and with the work of being a critical intellectual.

Examines the crucial role that coming-of-age narratives have played in American feminism.

Insider and outsider narratives on the essence of modern “extreme” sports.

A biography of one of America's leading humanitarians who, as an advisor to nine presidents, also had a lasting effect on American foreign policy.

A history professor experiences disturbing parallels between the furor over hiring decisions and an alleged case of sexual harassment on his own campus, and the harassment of an anarchist commune on south Puget Sound in 1902.

This memoir evokes a girl’s coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, “utopian” community.

In this darkly satirical novel, a Columbia University English professor's life is turned upside down when it starts to follow the plot of Shakespeare's sonnets.

Argues that if poems are to matter in American culture, they must be read rather than theorized over.

Explores the life and work of W. Warren Wagar.

An unusual, deft, often piercing meditation on storytelling, ethnicity, and the Italian/American experience.

These nine short stories explore love and loss in contemporary Damascus, as well as the possibilities of writing ethnography as fiction.

Combines the techniques of fiction and nonfiction in order to tell the story of the love between Susette Gontard ("Diotima") and the poet Friedrich Holderlin.

This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.

When Nixon orders the bombing of Cambodia, a university erupts in protest, irrevocably altering the lives of students and faculty, and disrupting the process of storytelling itself.

Marianne Wallenberg’s life story.