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In forty short and charming chapters, a former "great books" teacher from New York City adapts to his new role on a small Southern farm by observing the natural world and drawing connections to his reading life. Inlate middle-age, Harry Kavros and his wife, Peri, pack up all the householdbelongings that will fit into their car and leave Manhattan, bound for their newhome on a twenty-two-acre patch of pine-filled land in Hillsborough, North Car...

Six essays from a well-known Nietzsche scholar on Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche, and the history of western philosophy In Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche: Philosophy and Its Poetry, Laurence Lampert presents what he calls the new history of philosophy, madepossible by Friedrich Nietzsche. This "new" history takes seriouslyNietzsche's claim that "the greatest thoughts are the greatest events." To putit even more assertively that "genuine philosophers are...

In this enchanting collection of essays and interviews, poet Adrienne Su reflectson her journey as a creative writer and avid home cook, beginning at aneighbor's dinner table in 1980s Atlanta--lingering over poems, poets, andconnections between food and literature--and ending in her 2023 kitchen incentral Pennsylvania.In Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet, Adrienne Su contemplates her own use of foodas a recurring metaphor, influential teachers and peers...

Wes Davis' fast-paced tale of wartime sabotage reads more like an Ian Fleming thriller than a mere retelling of events."―Wall Street Journal"The story unfolds with the rich characterization and perfectly calibrated suspense of a great novel. It can be hard at points to remember the book is actually a work of nonfiction."―Christian Science MonitorThe Ariadne Objective is the extraordinary story of the Nazi occupation of Crete told from the pers...

Among the finest poets of his generation."--Richard Wilbur"Like Frost before him, Brock has the power to make earthbound words take flight."--Boris DralyukAfter, thetitle of Geoffrey Brock's third poetry collection, is meant to work in twoways. A number of the poems were written after, and in response to, the deathof Brock's father who was also a poet. Manyof the others are also in some way "after"--asin, in the manner of--other poems or works...

This powerful memoir from poet Kevin Hart traces his difficult childhood as a "backward boy" in a poor part of London, a disorienting move to tropical Australia, and the secrets he and his family kept from one another. Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood is Kevin Hart's searing, yet at timeshilarious, narrative of his first thirteen years. It is a story of survival andtransformation, of deception and recovery, and it passes from a frighten...

Music and the Idea of a World exploresthe bond between music and world by reflecting on great musical compositionsand works by great thinkers from antiquity to the present. World, here, hasseveral meanings. It is the natural world or cosmos, the inner world of feelingand thought, world history, and the world of tones (the musical universe). Thebook is intended for philosophic-minded readers who are fascinated by music andmusic lovers who enjoy...

Although he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature four times, Stefan Żeromski's work is not as widely known outside Poland as it should be. Thus this elegant translation is most welcome . . . A beautiful, prescient story." --Celia Jeffries, author of Blue Desert This classic Polish novel, available in English for the first time, explores important themes of public health, economic inequality, and alienation in the age of industrializ...

This is a wonderful account of a nonpareil physician-scientist and, in recent decades, a creator of drug therapies and a lifesci macher. Carl Nathan illuminates his memoir with great storytelling and deeply considered reflections (regularly summed up in pithy 'life lessons') on how his person and his personal journey prepared, and propelled, him. Like Carl, I am a scientist whose asthma and serial pneumonias meant swapping a lot of childhood c...

When thirteen-year-old Wilder and his friends Sunny and Corndog go down to the river for a horse ride, something panics Corndog into running away. Wilder and Sunny reluctantly return home without him, and the next day a strange man comes to Wilder's house looking for Corndog. He seems to know an awful lot about the small, red-haired, foster kid's past. So Wilder, Sunny, and another friend, Big, set out to find Corndog before someone else does....

Ear Training gathers thirty essays and reviews by one of America's most playful critics. Known for his long career as a professor and writer of critical biographies, for this collection William H. Pritchard has selected some of his favorite shorter pieces on a wide range of topics. United by Pritchard's philosophy of literature, which he calls "ear training", pieces on subjects from John Updike to Emily Dickinson to Frank Sinatra to the soap o...

If the LOLSOB emoji could write verse that both sings and stings, the result would be Satan Talks to His Therapist."--Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced WomanIn Satan Talks to His Therapist, Melissa Balmain explores the lighter side of dark times. Playful yet poignant, her poems perfectly capture our human fallibility and comedic sense of importance. The collection begins with "On Looking at an MRI Cross-Section, " in which B...

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