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The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New Criterion, among other journals, Logan's eloquent, passionate prose never fails to provoke readers and poets, reminding us of the value and vitality of the critic's savage art. Like The Undiscovered C...

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The 2008 Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China take advantage of this golden public relations opportunity to present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or did Beijing in 2008 act more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage...

Although Natsume Soseki is widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, he began his writing career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. He would later look back on his Theory of Literature (1907) as an immature and unfinished work, but it is in fact an astonishingly original attempt at constructing a model for understanding all literature through the experience of reading. Soseki insists that literary taste is s...

As long as I can remember, I have longed to touch some sacred essence I didn't have words for, something I knew only by its presence and mostly by its absence. This longing led me from my home, yet ultimately I believed it would lead me home, bring me to a place in the landscape-a place outside myself-where I would want to stay. And so I set out on my journey, traveling, like many before me, to the Himalayan mountains, led by a longing for hom...

In this groundbreaking novel, Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman's struggle to navigate the cruel realities of postwar Japan. The novel's characters, particularly its resilient heroine Koda Yukiko, find themselves trapped in their own drifting, unable to break out of the morass of indecisiveness. Set in the years during and after World War II, their lives and damaged psyches reflect the confusion of the tim...

Based on three decades of ethnographic research, The Space of Religion takes readers inside the Nanputuo Temple in order to explore the practice of Buddhism in modern China and the complex relationship between Buddhism and the Chinese state.

What did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children¿s lives in wartime France and the ways they are remembered.

Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the 1979 Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences.

Hayrettin Yücesoy offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating the emergence and influence of a vibrant secular tradition.

The Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO¿s race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions of modernization and economic development.

Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.

Richard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary Chinese city.

Richard Halpern argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for transdisciplinary thinking that can push back against the narrowness of the humanities today.

American Deadline brings together dispatches from four longtime local journalists in different parts of the United States that tell the story of 2020 anew.

Voyages of Discovery is the definitive account of Frederick Wiseman's career, offering a comprehensive analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the United States. In this updated edition, Barry Keith Grant adds new material exploring the documentarian's works since the 1990s.