W.W. Norton
Childish Loves
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A writer sits down to write poetry or a novel. The thoughts and emotions swirling through this process are actually miscellaneous experiences, thinking, ...Read Review
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Hysteria was a very real fear up until the late 19th century, and never studied more than at the Salpêtrière Hospital ...Read Review
An American Type
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The Great Depression was no help to poor, New York Jewish ghetto novelist Ira Stigman, who loathed his current dependence on his bossy, ...Read Review
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
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1974, and Ethiopia is on the verge of revolution. Peasants starve in the drought-stricken countryside, while Emperor Haile Selassie remains sequestered in his palace, ...Read Review
All Other Nights
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The title to this brilliant and thought-provoking novel comes from a question asked to the youngest participant at a Passover seder: Why is ...Read Review
The Seventh Well
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The Seventh Well was originally published in East Germany in 1971, but not until its reissue in 2006 did it begin to achieve the ...Read Review
Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande
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So much of the history of the American West is represented in Texas. From the struggles of Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie at ...Read Review
The Sultan’s Seal
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In late 19th century Istanbul, the body of a young Englishwoman has washed ashore, and it soon becomes apparent that she was not ...Read Review
The Man from Beyond
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is better known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes than an enthusiast for Spiritualism, but it is that passion ...Read Review
Ice Road
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Set in the Soviet Union prior to and during World War II, Ice Road makes personal the terrors of Stalin’s era. It ...Read Review
