An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the...

An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London – its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through w...

Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on "realistic" conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallo...

A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to China just his pen and a book of blank pages. When the literary conference that took him there ended and his fellow writers returned to India, Sealy stay...

Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency. Rebecca...

A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, "The Daily Henry James" is a little book from a great mind. First published with James's approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom – a limited edition quo...

This volume by Rana Serida presents the first complete edition of a hitherto unattested narrative from the Tebtunis temple library in Egypt (1st-2nd century AD). The story seems to have formed part of the so-called Inaros Cycle, a sequence of stories...

More than a gathering of essays, "That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration" is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written....