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Life of Christina of Hane

Kirakosian Racha

ISBN: HB: 9780300250992, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The thirteenth-century mystic Christina of Hane led an extraordinary life, but her recently unearthed case remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world. Her disturbing account of vaginal mutilation, her competition with the Virgin Mary, and...

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Performing Arts

Kaddish Pages on Tadeusz Kantor

Kott Jan

ISBN: PB: 9780857427489, Seagull Books, May 2020
64 pp., 17.7x10.7 cm, 16 halftones

Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was renowned for his revolutionary theater performances in both his native Poland and abroad. Despite nominally being a Catholic, Kantor had a unique relationship with Jewish culture and incorporated many elements of Jewish...

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Music

Irving Berlin New York Genius

Kaplan James

ISBN: HB: 9780300180480, Yale University Press, January 2020
424 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called – by George Gershwin, among others – the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music", legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; "he is American musi...

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Literary Criticism

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Knausgaard Karl Ove, Burkey Ingvild

ISBN: PB: 9780300248517, Yale University Press, November 2019
104 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm

"Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinkin...

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Design

Henry van de Velde Designing Modernism

Kuenzli Katherine M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226669, Yale University Press, July 2019
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 52 colour illus., 89 black&white illus.

The painter, designer, and architect Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) played a crucial role in expanding modernist aesthetics beyond Paris and beyond painting. Opposing growing nationalism around 1900, he sought to make painting the basis of an aesthet...

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America

Dream of the Water Children Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific

Kakinami Cloyd Fredrick D.

ISBN: PB: 9781940939285, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, March 2019
476 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm

Born to an African American father and Japanese mother, Frederick D. Kakinami Cloyd, the narrator of "Dream of the Water Children", finds himself not only to be a marginalized person by virtue of his heritage, but often a cultural drifter, as well. I...

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America

Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....

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Philosophy

Arendt and America

King Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565538, ISBN: HB: 9780226311494, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as "The Human Condition", "The Origins of Tot...

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Tchaikovsky Papers Unlocking the Family Archive

Kostalevsky Marina, Pearl Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300191363, Yale University Press, April 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and...

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French Lessons A Memoir

Kaplan Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780226564555, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
232 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm

Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, "French Lessons" is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of...

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