The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century – the so-called long eighteenth century of English history – was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long distance trade, and huma...

"Grace for Grace" brings celebrated cult filmmaker Steve De Jarnatt's distinctive voice and cinematic vision to the page. Lush inner lives, idiosyncratic syntax, and sweeping scale characterize these wildly imaginative stories, which present characte...

Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metro...

A significant event in Derrida scholarship, this book marks the first publication of his long-lost philosophical text known only as "Geschlecht III". The third, and arguably the most significant, piece in his four-part Geschlecht series, it fills a g...

There are two menus in a Beijing restaurant, Rachel DeWoskin writes in the title poem, "the first of excess / second, scarcity". DeWoskin invites us into moments shaped by dualities, into spaces bordered by the language of her family (English) and th...

"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room... And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't" – An anonymous senior administrative official in an op-ed published in a Ne...

Everyday suffering – those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone's lives – is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a drastic change in the way we approach it...

"Courting the Abyss" updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread the...

Emma Dante's passionate and brutal plays stem from a need to confront important familial and societal realities in contemporary southern Italy. Her twenty-first century tales challenge stereotypes of the country and stage acts of resistance against t...